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    mount smb share with specific uid and gid

    Hi everyone, i created unprivileged container and I want to mount two folders to it I did it with mount points. the problem is that I need that the folder will have permission of 1000:1000 and I cant seems to get it right. after some searches and using this link...
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    new to proxmx - how do i add an existing image ?

    Hi Forum, i'm new to proxmox. About LVM i know something, but not about thin provisioning. What i want: import virtual machines from a qemu/KVM/libvirt instance. What i did: I created a virtual machine inside proxmox, it has id 100. I have a LVM thin pool called "data", it resides in a volume...
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    simple clustering question

    im currently using hyper v and have some clusters setup. ive only just started tinkering with proxmox on a single server, and currently have 3 identical servers, and 2 others that are different. if i moved all servers over to proxmox would they all work together without any issues or would they...
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    Storage drive bricked!? Unable to mount a full disk

    I cannot mount my physical storage disk which had previously been mounted. As soon as I run the mount command in Ubuntu terminal, my VM freezes and Proxmox shows "IO error". The drive is 100% full so it's not really surprising (not sure how that happened as I'd just made 200gb worth of free...
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    iSCSCI Storage access for Guest

    Hi, I know it's possible to configure iSCSCI in proxmox for my Guest Storage. What about scenario can Guest access/mount iSCSCI directly from ex. TrueNAS iSCSCI share somewehre on the network. Reason for asking is that I need to create 3 x RH OpenShift Worker Nodes and want to do it on one...
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    Activation of logical volume is prohibited while logical volume XXX_tmeta is active

    root@pve:~# pvesm status activating LV 'storage01-slow/storage01-slow' failed: Activation of logical volume storage01-slow/storage01-slow is prohibited while logical volume storage01-slow/storage01-slow_tmeta is active. Name Type Status Total Used...
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    Node showing as offline after copying to it

    I have a cluster with 3 nodes. All in all, this works perfectly. However, if I want to copy a VM or ISO from one of the first two nodes to the last node, the copy process aborts after about 1GB and the third node appears as offline. However, when I click on it, everything is displayed and...
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    Ceph Monitors not starting

    Hello I have just configured ceph on proxmox and i see that the monitor on the 2nd node and 3rd node is stopped state I am running a 3-node cluster the systemctl is showing active and running but for some reason it's in a stopped state in GUI I just found this on Syslog in the uI ep 25 21:59:08...
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    Help! - Proxmox storage VM Disks, ISO images unaccessable randomly

    I have a Unraid storage setup in datacenter connected via SMB. this has been working for 3 years no problem. Randomly, last night I couldnt access my VM and noticed that it was unable to find the VM disk attached, stored on the unraid storage. I check proxmox storage and notice that the backups...
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    Proxmox Disks / Storage Setup

    I'm setting up a Proxmox server (for a homelab) and am not sure how best to set up disks and storage. I am a newbie with servers, storage, Proxmox et al and current plan is a TrueNAS setup; I will play later also around with software/containers as well and see where it takes me. The disks I...
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    USB 3.0 to SATA - Storage Disconnect

    Hi Proxmox folks, I have two external SSDs which I'm trying to connect to my Proxmox node via USB 3.0 to SATA cables. However, I'm seeing behaviour where I have one of them plugged into the USB 3.0 port running just fine, but when I plug the other one in, the first one disconnects :( Here are...
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    Windows Storage Issues after Migration from Xen

    Hello Everybody, I have an Issue with Windows VMs dropping Disk I/O after migration to proxmox from xcp-ng. Here is the pveversion -v of one of my pve hosts. proxmox-ve: 8.2.0 (running kernel: 6.8.8-4-pve) pve-manager: 8.2.4 (running version: 8.2.4/faa83925c9641325) proxmox-kernel-helper...
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    Trouble attaching SAN to Proxmox

    I am testing Proxmox and we have a SAN from Pure Storage. I have a 3 host cluster and each can see the storage available (both local and SAN), but the SAN storage is duplicated with each Fibre channel connection. I have installed multipath tools and have used some steps found here to edit the...
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    VM STORAGE .VDI FILE

    Hello, Does anyone ever use Virtualbox for their VM? if so, do you guys experiencing the same as me such as when im already setting up maximum storage in Virtualbox setting which is 2TB, but when it already running long enough maybe around 2-3 months i try deleting data to free up my storage...
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    Why Does ZFS Hate my Server

    i have this bizarre situation where using ZFS on a Dell R730xd leads to something completely useless. i have spent most of an entire week trying to troubleshoot it in every manner possible. it simply. doesn't. budge. system topology: Dell R730xd it was two 2.5" sata ports in the back connected...
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    Proxmox storage setup recomendation

    Hi All! I'm new in Proxmox and I would like to have knowladge about storage config. I used before ESXI as hypervisor, so I have a little experience with virtualization . Now I have 3 storage connected directly to the host: 1-ssd for Proxmox 1-nvme for VMs ( I will use LVM) 4-4TB disk in RAID5...
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    Hohe IO-Last auf Storage per NFS führt zu Totalunfall

    Hallo, ich habe zuhause einen 4 Node Cluster. Alle vier Nodes haben als Storage einen NFS Share von meinem anderen Server eingebunden. Leider ist bei mir alles nur auf 1Gbit, da ich "alte" PCs zu wiederverwende. Bei mir ist eine durchgehende Last von ca 5-6 MB/s vorhanden, was nicht sonderlich...
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    Multipathing with SAS storage but still be able to snapshot

    Hi there, I currently have a Proxmox Cluster with 2 identical Hosts with SAS cards and a V3700 V2 Storage that has each storage-canister directly attached to both Hosts with SAS cables. I was able to successfully configure multipathing and create an LVM on it, however, as the documentation...
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    Storage Freezing Issue

    i am having a storage freezing issue on a proxmox server that's using ZFS, and while i found a bunch of other people on the forum who have had the same issue, i am unable to find any kind of a solution. i know this is shooting in the dark a little, but does this error mean anything to anybody...
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    Backup Server Hardware Specs & Storage Sizing

    Hello. First of all, I'm sorry if my English is not good enough, I'm not a native English speaker but I will try my best to make myself understandable so don't hesitate to ask me to rewrite some explanations if they're not clear enough. We've been using Hyper-V Core 2016 at work with some more...