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    Moving virtual HDD only to another node?

    Hi everyone, I was adding another node to my cluster today (node 4), and during the process, node 1 decided to crash. This triggered the HA, and it began spinning the VM up on node 2. The HA migration failed, and the hard disk was never moved. On node 2, I see the VM and the config; and on node...
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    Proxmox cluster shared iscsi storage problem with directly connected hosts

    Hi, I have two proxmox 8.0 hosts in a cluster, conected (each) directly to iscsi storage (don't have SAN switch yet). I have multipath installed and configured, and successfuly see storage from both hosts if I create separate iscsi targets ( Cluster -> Storage -> Add -> iscsi) for both hosts...
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    New Drive shows the incorrect size

    I just bought a new drive the capacity is 12TB but the drive size shows 2.04TB. I am not sure if it's a hardware thing, I have a Dell Poweredge r410. Please help. // EDIT: It now is using GPT but still shows up as 2TB. //
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    directories issues with 100gb limit and random occupation

    Hello! i have a proxmox installation on a server. In this server, i have put some linked folders and some storages as following: linked: - local network drive mounted on another PC (500gb) - onedrive with 2tb local: - 1 SSD 1TB - 7 HDD 1TB (i made a ZFS pool) - 1 SDcard (512gb) the issue is...
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    what are the possible ways to allocate specific resources to the users?

    Hello! I'm looking for guidance on how to efficiently manage and allocate resources for different users within our Proxmox environment. What are the possible solutions within Proxmox to allocate specific storage, CPU, and RAM resources to individual users, with the goal of limiting their...
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    [Solved] Directory drive migration

    Hello, I am planning on reinstalling VE into raid1, however only thing left that is not backed up is a 4TB HDD, that is formatted as "directory disk", with data on it. The question is, however, how do I add/mount it into the new installation, without reformatting? I have backed up storage.conf...
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    CEPH storage use grows rapidly despite of space allocation

    I have configured 3 node proxmox with equal number of OSDs and storage. The storage use keeps increasing despite of the allocated space. The used percentage grows from 99 percent to 100 percent. Why is this happening?
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    [glusterfs][storage] Several storage operations error with regex check

    Since a couple of weeks, i get errors with several things that involve adding, removing or changins storage, like deleting VMs, qm scan and so on. When this happens, the only two log lines are these: Use of uninitialized value $used in pattern match (m//) at...
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    Using an Amazon AWS S3 Bucket as backup storage

    Hi there, Is there a way to use an S3 Bucket as storage for my Proxmox backups? Thank you for the help
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    Could Not Find Storage

    Need help, I accidentally detached the storage of an active VM. Now, when I restarted the VM, it refuses to open due to an error stating 'could not find storage'. Is it still possible for me to reattach the storage to the VM or is there any other possible solution? The raw file of the VM is...
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    Tips for labb setup

    I got some leftover servers from work and Im going to setup a small proxmox cluster I need some tips and ideas how to best utilize the hardware 3x HP dl360 g9 2x16core, 128GB ddr4 ram, 8x300GB 1x HP dl380 g7 2x6 core, 288GB ddr3 ram, 2x300GB I also got a old dell with 6x1tb that I though...
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    Issues with M.2 NVME ssd

    Hello, I recently added a NVIDIA Quadro P400 as a 2nd GPU to my Proxmox Node for plex transcoding and PiKVM. My Hardware thus consists of ASRock x570 Steel Legend AMD Ryzen 7 5800x NVIDIA RTX 3060 NVIDIA Quadro P400 2x M.2 Samsung 980 Pro 1TB PCIE 4.0 ssd 2x sata 3 ssd's a bunch of sata hdd's...
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    Storage pool showing more full than sum of individual components?

    I have a LVM-thin called "BigDisk" setup for Disk images and containers that is 3.57 TB. If I navigate to it in the GUI, it shows that I have used 2.24 TB (63.69% full). However, when I sum the size of all the disks/snapshots/other components listed, I only get 1.56 TB (1.47 TB in VM disks & 89...
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    Desperately trying to share storage from Promox host (ZFS)

    I have the storage on my proxmox host using ZFS (not even sure if that a good idea? It's a M.2 SSD 2TB mostly for Plex) -- should I use another filesystem ? on the host I can access the file at /Storage using SSH. I have Plex runing on one LXC and connected with "pct set 100 --mp0...
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    Shared folder from proxmox host to VM and CT

    I'm new to proxmox, I created a ZFS drive which is accesible on Proxmox at /Storage I wanted to make it accesible do the VM while remain accesible to the host and other CTs, I managed once, but I had to remove the VM and start over since I can't figure out how... anyway I managed to do the same...
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    Odd Storage issue- More storage that I actually have installed

    Good Evening Proxmox Support, I have a 1 TB Samsung 970 SSD and a 2 TB Samsung 870 SSD. I Freshly reinstalled Proxmox VE 8 (Graphical) and setup the drives as ZFS (RAID0). After the install was finished it says the total amount of space that my ZFS Storage pool is 5.7 TiB. now, I am...
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    Replacing 1TB SSDs with 2TB SSDs ZFS Pool

    Hi, I din't find a lot of Information on the exact practice on how to do it. I have a Server with only 6 SSD Slots (2 for the Boot Disk, 4 for the Storage Disk) I have 4x 1TB SSD inside a Raid 10 ZFS Pool, and I want to upgrade those to 2TB, if possible without Downtime? My current procedure...
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    The storages and VM with unknown status

    Hello everyone, my storages and my VMs/CTs are in unknown status. Does anybody know how to solve this? I researched a little and saw that it has something to do with storage. can anybody help me? Please?
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    Strange ZFS behaviour

    Hi! I have a single server: DELL PowerEdge R630 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v4 256 GB RAM 2x INTEL DC P3605 HHHL NVME PVE: pve-manager/6.4-15/af7986e6 (running kernel: 5.4.203-1-pve) I make mirror ZFS over NVME using zpool create -o ashift=12 nvtank mirror /dev/nvme0n1 /dev/nvme1n1...
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    I need a new cluster strategy - cloud computing

    Hello, I am a long-time proxmox user. We have purchased the following hardware for a new project and are about to launch a cloud computing platform at the entry stage. But I still haven't clarified the installation strategy and scenario. Hardwares: 5 x Dell PowerEdge R630 1 x Dell Unity 600F...

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