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    trim or discard mapped size disk from within the host machine

    About returning unused space (trim or discard mapped size disk) I know about use `fstrim` command in guest vm. But I can not login to the guest customers! Now, my question is, is there any way to do this from within the host machine (main proxmox server)?
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    PVE Installer 5.0 - possible to install on disk partition only (not whole disk on zfs)

    Would it be possible to take an entire disk (256GB SSD) and break it down into smaller partitions, then install rpool on a fragment of the disk only? Right now the installer for PVE 5.0 beta2 when selecting zfs raid1 from the menu it shows entire disk /dev/sda, any possibility to have the...
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    LXC mount options / trim

    Hey. is it possible to add a mount option like discard to an LXC RAW storage? If not, is it save to use something like that to trim runnings VMs from the Host-Os: fstrim /proc/<PID of LXC init process>/root Thanks for your help!
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    Trim virtual drives

    Hey everyone ! We were moving disks from a storage to another and noticed that when they arrive on the new storage, the thin provisioning expanded to full space. Before, when we had a few VMs, we could use the old method to empty the disks (using dd to fill the disk with zeros and deleting...
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    TRIM Host, CT & Windows VMs

    After reading many posts I am still unclear on the best use of Trim with SSDs. I have two RAID1 SSDs on a Perc H730 controller which supports trim: http://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/Dell-PowerEdge-RAID-Controller-H730.pdf Currently my server boots with...
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    ZFS with SSDs: Am I asking for a headache in the near future?

    Hey there. I've built a new proxmox 4 machine for the small business I work at, which will mostly be running a postgres database and a few web hosts in LXC, in addition to some windows kvm test environments, upgrading from an old Core 2 Quad system running PVE3.4 I'm using a pair of Samsung...

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