storage

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    Communication failure when accessing disks on Proxmox node

    Good afternoon, when attempting to access the disks on my Proxmox node, an error message appears stating "communication failure (0) or Connection timed out (596)". The goal was to view all the disks of the server in order to link them to the server itself. Despite encountering this error when...
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    NFS: storage i not online (500)

    I have disabled ipv6, added the machine without the "enabled" box, we check that both computers see each other and we restart the server.Despite everything, it still does not connect.
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    [SOLVED] Local full after backup unsuccessfull

    Hey guys, Proxmox is amazing and was working pretty flawlessly in my environment. Today I checked in on the system and saw that there was a backup job throwing an error. Checking the storages I saw that my external harddrive dropped from 500 GB storage to just 100 GB storage. After a reboot the...
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    Understanding storage

    I currently have two drives full of important media files that were in use for a barebone NAS setup. I have mounted the drives to proxmox and it detects them but I am hoping to be able to read/write the already created ext4 partitions within a VM, although i have not been successful in finding a...
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    45Drives HL15 for PBR

    Has anyone tried using the 45 drives HL15 for their PBR server? I'm at a point where my pbr, running as a vm on my pve server, with nested storage isn't going to work long term or be very dependable long term, in fact it's already crashed twice and I lost my data. The first time I lost my...
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    [SOLVED] Storage Plugin Entwicklung

    Hallo geschätztes Proxmox Team, wir sind aktuell in Kontakt mit Pure Storage bzgl. einer PVE Storage Integration (Storage Plugin), da wir bei uns ein Pure FlashArray in Verwendung haben und die Überlegung aufkam, dass aktuelle Hyper V Cluster auf Proxmox umzustellen. Da leider aufgrund der...
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    unallocated space after vm disk shrunk

    Hello, I want to shrink the size of a vm from 100G to 30G. I booted the vm into gparted and resized the partition to 29G I shutdown the vm ran "zfs set volsize=30G rpool/data/vm-201-disk-0" to leave a little overhead ran "qm rescan" and got the message that the disk-0 has no 30G instead of...
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    External storage for pbr

    Hello. Although I have a remote pve, with pbr-vm running and storage is there - it is becoming problematic as the pbr storage, is another zfs partition on the pve machine. I need to change this am interested what others have done for 'storage' only. I can build/buy another box and dedicate it...
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    Pre-install issues

    Hi I have never used proxmox before but i cant get a clear answer from the web. so i thought id ask. the system inquestion is a 5900x/32gb ram/1080ti. lots of hard drives spinning with media, a 2tb 990pro nvme, and a 512gb pm9a1 nvme. i have always used windwos and i use virtualbox to host ...
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    Help!!! Local stoarge on cluster.

    I had some issues with my proxmox cluster and ended up starting from scratch. Im hoping you can help me with this dilemma. I have a 3 node cluster. One of them has Proxmox installed as a mirror on 2 SSD's the other two nodes only have single boot drives. I I installed proxmox on the server...
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    How to change default location for vms/containers

    Hello, anyone tell me how I can set the default location for vms/containers and isos/templates without using alphabetical order? It's annoying to change the location/move the disk every time when I don't think about it. For example, when I want to create a container, it still uses local as the...
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    Festplatte auf anderen Speicher verschieben.

    Moin, wir wollen einige Festplatten Images von eine Ceph Speicher auf einen mit 10Gbit angeschlossenen NFS Speicher verschieben. Idealerweise habe ich mir eine Geschwindigkeit weit oberhalb von 100MB/s versprochen. iperf3 zeigt volle 10G Geschwindigkeit an. Nun meine Frage: Wird bei...
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    Ceph Rebalance Speed Sanity Check

    I know there's a lot of people talking about this stuff, I just want to understand better so anyone that reads this thank you. I have a 8 node cluster with 16 OSD all 10g network, connected to the same switch, MTU 9000. I also disabled scrub. I added 4 disks to the cluster is what stared all...
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    [SOLVED] Ceph not working after upgrade to PVE 8.1

    Hello, I've got a 4 node PVE cluster with 3 of those nodes sharing a ceph pool. I'm running Ceph Quincy 17.2.7. I did an upgrade from Proxmox 7.4 to 8.1 and followed the steps on the 7 to 8 guide including updating to the correct repos for both PVE and Ceph. While the PVE upgrade seems to have...
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    Newb setting up a PVE host for SMB + Jellyfin

    Hi folks, I'm really new to proxmox and self-hosting but I want to go further along this path because of the freedom and excitement it gives to be able to do whatever you want to. I've landed on a mini-pc(NUC-like) with 1 M.2 NVME SSD (4TB) and 1 2.5" SATA SSD (4TB with 32GB RAM, it has a...
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    VM on lvm-thin with own lvm-thin?

    Hello. I just completed my Proxmox + OPNsense installation (everything works fine now but of course I need to do some more work and research) but I have got (maybe) a very dumb question. In my Proxmox I have a LVM-thin storage where my virtual machine is stored. It's fine. And now let's say...
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    HA in storage / HA in PROXMOX.

    Good morning everybody. I planned the following scenario and would like to know if anyone here has set up something similar or if something in the services has any limitations. I will have two OmniOS servers, with ZFS and using COMSTAR for iscsi. The two storage servers have several Intel...
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    [SOLVED] SDN Node IP

    Is there a way to add an IP address on each node for a SDN Vnet? I have two storage VLANs 20 and 30 that I share to both VM's and the physical nodes. I would like to move all my network config to SDN - VLANs but I can't find a way to add IP addresses to the nodes so they can also access those...
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    Raid Controller Configuration

    Hello everyone I was wondering what is the proper way to setup the hardware controller. We usually setup Proxmox on Dell servers with the PERC H755 Hardware Raid controller which can be configured with different read/write policies, Usually we configure our storage on raid 5 or raid 10 virtual...
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    [SOLVED] Help importing existing disks/datasets to VM

    So I am new to Proxmox and have just installed it on my machine. and I am having some trouble figuring out how to (if even possible) import disk/datasets that already have data on them to a VM. so for some background. the machine that has Proxmox on had Truenas installed before I installed...

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