storage

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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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    Windows Guest - Disk I/O and Throughput Performance

    Hi All, I'm trying to identify what is the culprit for noted performance degradation specifically on Windows guests. Appreciate any help or advice, below is the write up of details. Background Usually I run exclusively linux guests on my Proxmox cluster, and these achieve (fio tested) in the...
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    Proxmox Storage Configuration

    I have a couple Dell Poweredge R240 servers and I want to install Proxmox on these. Each currently has a Dell 960 GB balanced read/write Enterprise SSD. There are 3 free 3.5" drive bays - 4 total per server. I can buy a bunch of 3TB enterprise drives for cheap and create a ZFS pool with 1 drive...
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    New Installation

    Hello, I am starting newly to explore the proxmox. Could you please someone guide me in the right direction? Eg: Installation Configuration Network Configuration Storage configuration. I have installed Virtual Environment 8.1.4 in OnBoard USB flash Drive, is it good practice? I don't see...
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    [SOLVED] Shared SAN inkl. Snapshots Unterstützung

    Hallo zusammen, gibt es aktuell Pläne einer Verwirklichung von SAN (iSCSI / SCSI) Support mit Snapshot Funktion bzw. den offiziellen Support eines shared Filesystems um qcow2 verwenden zu können? Falls nicht, gibt es eine Empfehlung welches shared Filesystem hier evtl. gut und sicher in einer...
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    Issues using pvse

    Hello I am having some issues. I have several nodes in a cluster that I want local encrypted zfs pools for storage but I can't add the pools using the same name on different proxmox nodes, so I can't easily migrate between encryped zfs pools. Steps to reproduce: #1. Create the base disk in the...
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    Ceph - 1 subtrees have committed pool target_size_bytes

    Hello everyone We have gotten this failure on our 3 nodes cluster and I really don't know how to solve it. I would really appreciate the help. Thanks in advance
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    [SOLVED] ZFS Pool Name ändern

    Hallo Zusammen, ich denke ich weiß mittlerweile so ungefähr was ich tun müsste bin mir aber nicht 100%ig sicher und würde daher gerne noch den Forumsjoker ziehen..... Ich habe viel rumgespielt die letzten Wochen mit Proxmox und ZFS und habe daher einen Pool wo ich jetzt am Anfang einen blöden...