new proxmox install

[wbravin]

Folowing a 3 week struggle i was succesfull to get my gifted HP ml350 g6 on which i installed with E
sxi 6.7 and the Home assistant OS. and OPNsense, all went well

In Configuring HAOS I have come to realize that i can only add 1 USB as passthrough to the HAVM..... Bummer.

This for me has become a big issue.

Although i am currenly only running z-wave using an AEOTEC usb, i will need to add an additional usb to connect zigbee usb and a wifi usb to connect shelly and tasmota (this wifi coudl be done via an AP)

After looking a several videos on youtube and reading many threads on the subject and I can only assume that with proxmox v7 i can add and passthrough multiple usbs to home assistant or to any other VM.

I’m i correct in this assumption can this be confirmed?

In addition will proxmox install and run correctly on the HP ML350 g6?
with:
1 CPU 5620
32 GB ram ( would increase the ram to 64gb)
one disk partition with 3 x146 GB SAS (for proxmox and the VM
one partition with 5 SAS disks for a total 1.2TB

Because if so I would also add a vm for OPNsense (it would be sufficient to passthrough the wifi form an AP to Home Assistant?)

Thank you in advance for all your help

 

[Neobin]

In addition will proxmox install and run correctly on the HP ML350 g6?

There are a few reports in the forum, that the installation with the current PVE 7.2-ISO could be "not so straightforward" on some (older?) enterprise servers. There are workarounds; you might have to search the forum for.

I can only assume that with proxmox v7 i can add and passthrough multiple usbs to home assistant or to any other VM.

I personally do not use USB-passthrough [1], so no experience; but in general it should be possible to passthrough multiple USB-devices [2].
How reliable it is, might be another thing...
Most reliability should probably be, to get a USB-controller card and PCIe-passthrough [3] it to the VM. (Might also be an option for your current ESXi-installation.)

PS.: General recommendation: Make sure, all the firmwares are as up-to-date as possible on this really old machine.

BTW: Wrong forum.

[1] https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/USB_Devices_in_Virtual_Machines
[2] https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/USB_Devices_in_Virtual_Machines#More_Devices
[3] https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/PCI(e)_Passthrough

 

[wbravin]

There are a few reports in the forum, that the installation with the current PVE 7.2-ISO could be "not so straightforward" on some (older?) enterprise servers. There are workarounds; you might have to search the forum for.

Thank you for your reply is there an older vewrsion of proxmox that would be less problematic?

I personally do not use USB-passthrough [1], so no experience; but in general it should be possible to passthrough multiple USB-devices [2].
How reliable it is, might be another thing...
Most reliability should probably be, to get a USB-controller card and PCIe-passthrough [3] it to the VM. (Might also be an option for your current ESXi-installation.)

It is not an issue with the hardware it is ESXI that will not allow multiple usb to be passed through ( i did and try this but no joy)

PS.: General recommendation: Make sure, all the firmwares are as up-to-date as possible on this really old machine.

Firmware is up to date on all my servers

BTW: Wrong forum.

why wrong forum is this forum not manned by proxmox gurus?


again thatnk you for your reply

[1] https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/USB_Devices_in_Virtual_Machines
[2] https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/USB_Devices_in_Virtual_Machines#More_Devices
[3] https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/PCI(e)_Passthrough

 

[Neobin]

Thank you for your reply is there an older vewrsion of proxmox that would be less problematic?

From what I read, 7.1 should be:
https://proxmox.com/en/downloads/category/iso-images-pve

It is not an issue with the hardware it is ESXI that will not allow multiple usb to be passed through ( i did and try this but no joy)

Idea was to get a USB-controller card and pass this through (I assume, that ESXi also supports PCIe-passthrough?). With the whole (physical) USB-controller inside the VM, you could attach as many devices as the USB-specifications allow to it without relying on the ESXi-capabilities at all.

why wrong forum is this forum not manned by proxmox gurus?

I meant the category/sub-forum. Currently your thread is in the "Mail Gateway" sub-forum, instead of the "Proxmox VE" one.