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    disk setup confusion (where is the actual proxmox install located?)

    Hi. I have been using proxmox for a while now, but I still get confused when setting up my storage. Scenario A: I am currently setting up a homeserver for a friend who wants to experiment in a homelab. Available storage options: 500gb pcie nvme 1 TB SATA SSD 4 TB HDD This setup is for home...
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    ZFS und verwirrende Angaben bzgl der Größe

    Hallo. Diese Frage läuft sicher nicht zum ersten Mal ... aber ich möchte sie trotzdem nochmal stellen, da ich die Größenangaben bei Verwendung von ZFS-Pools weiterhin verwirrend finde. Die Situtation ist: IBM-M4-Server mit 4 Platten zu einem Z2-Pool (mit Cache). Unter Disks -> ZFS sehe ich...
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    Using ZFS pool

    Hi I'm having a zfs pool RAIDZ1, which includes 4 x 10TB disk. When using this pool in a file server (SMB and NFS) for different purposes, which is better way to share it in LXC or in VM: mount the whole pool as a one big disk (mp1), and use directory structure to share the resource, like...
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    Whonix: How to set mountpoint to VM's disk

    Dear all, I am running PROXMOX 8.2.2 for a while with several VM and ist works very fine. It was possible for me to set up Whonix gateway and workstation and get it running. Now I discovered the following problem: -I have several VMs and a zpool with several volumes used as mass storage...
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    Disk einer VM kopieren für eine andere VM

    Guten Tag zusammen, ich versuche nun seit geraumer Zeit herauszufinden wie ich eine existierende Disk einer Virtuellen Maschine A (id=108) kopieren und dann einer virtuellen Maschine B (id=119) zur Verfügung stellen kann. Ich habe für meine virtuellen Maschinen ein ZFS eingerichtet "vmpool"...
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    New ZFS setup on new install feels "off" somehow

    Current system - CPU is a Xeon E5-2697 v4 384 GB of memory x6 Seagate st8000nm0075 8TB drives connected in HBA mode through Dell PERC H730P Just spun up and migrated over to this "new to me" server. Was running a hardware RAID 10 for many years previously with x4 of the 8TB Seagate drives...
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    Setting cluster with HA

    Hello all, I am still learning about Proxmox and now I want to go to the HA clustering. I need your help in order to better understand the steps. I will start from the assumption that I will have a Proxmox "master" which run a VM Windows server 2019/2022 as DC and a second VM Windows server...
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    [SOLVED] I do not see dataset of Zpool but it works in LXC

    When I run command root@pve:~# ls -la /tank/nas ls: cannot access '/tank/nas': No such file or directory root@pve:~# ls -la /tank total 12 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 31 2024 . drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Feb 13 2024 .. drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 May 31 2024 pve Folder is not found...
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    [SOLVED] I broke a zfs pool

    So I broke this pool trying to rename it, yes i know it was a bad idea but at this point im fine with just deleting the whole pool and the lone vm on it so that I can get it back to normal. I did an export and import with the name change but it did'nt see the pool. I eventually got the pool...
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    How to specify numeric ID for zfs pool import at bootup?

    Hi: I managed to hose my pve server. It won't import/start a pool. I have to manually do a 'zpool import <pool guid>' to import the pool. The inconvenient part is that virtually all of my LXCs run off that pool, so I have to manually start each of those after importing the pool. Essentially...
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    Creating volumes for a VM

    I have installed Proxmox VE and made a virtual machine with Debian 12 on it. There I installed nextcloud and gitea but I have second thoughts on my drive configuration. What I did: 1. Created ZFS pool in proxmox on dedicated SSD. 2. Created and attached disk in this pool. 3. Inside debian VM...
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    HBA Passthrough and Virtualizing TrueNAS Scale

    I have not been able to locate a definitive guide on how to configure HBA passthrough on Proxmox, only GPUs. I believe that I have a near final configuration but I would feel better if I could compare my setup against an authoritative guide. Secondly I have been reading in various places online...
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    PVE with thunderbolt storage kernel 6.8.12-7

    I have been trying to understand if the bug mentioned with Thunderbolt devices has been resolved by any of the latest kernel updates, I’m on 6.8.12-7. I know people use Thunderbolt for many things, eGPU, NIC etc. in my case I am wanting to connect a 4 disc DAS over thunderbolt 3 which exposes...
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    [SOLVED] Simulating ZFS RAID-1disk failure on ProxMox boot disks

    Hello. After I discovered ProxMox I'm moving from VMWare but I'm trying to understand some key concepts of ZFS since my server RAID failed me at least twice corrupting data on my 2 SATA SSD devices on RAID 1. I'm still using hardware RAID for now, but planning to study ZFS before moving from...
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    [bug?] VM disk missing after resize

    Hi everyone, I’m new to Proxmox, so apologies in advance if this is a mistake on my part, but I’m encountering an issue that seems odd, and I’m not sure if it’s a bug or something I misconfigured. Here’s the situation: I had a Windows VM with two disks. The first disk was 52 GB, the main...
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    Unraid ZFS trying to add this share to Proxmox

    Hi All, Here is my scenario. I have an NFS pool on an Unraid server. I also have a MiniPC with Proxmox on it where I run all my media servers. I am trying to mount this ZFS from Unraid into Proxmox. Is there a step by step on how I can do this. I tried to go to Storage in Proxmox and add ZFS...
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    Performance Issues During Updates/Backups in a Linux VM on NVMe Mirror Pool

    Hi everyone, We recently took on a client with a Proxmox-based cluster. One of the servers hosts a virtual machine running Nextcloud, which contains over 500 GB of small files ranging from 30 KB to 4 GB. The VM disk is in RAW format. During the update process (while creating a backup) of the...
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    ZFS performance tips!

    Hi, I have 2 proxmox hosts each with local zfs with draid2 with 8 sas disks, 2 sas ssd nvme for zfs cache and other 2 sas ssd nvme for zfs log. The utilization of zfs cache is very low only 458G out of 1.5TB. What can I do ? Thanks!
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    ZFS Failed to Initialize libzfs lilbrary

    Hello, i was just found error when i try to install ZFS, i already tried ZFS before, but after i reboot it shows error like this root@projecthome:~# uname -r 6.8.12-6-pve root@projecthome:~# modprobe zfs modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'zfs': Invalid argument root@projecthome:~# zfs version...
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    ZFS available disk size not consistent

    Dears, I have a very strange behaviour when looking at the ZFS pool. There is a 1TB NVME in the box, this capacity was shown for a long time. Suddenly, the available capacity sank down to 355 GB for no reason. SMART status of dthe disk is okay, PVE tells me the following disk sizes: I...