Windows Server 2003 Import from ESXI 6.5
Good day I am having an issue using the import wizard to import and a VM from ESXI 6.5 , the import completes but when I boot the the VM I get a blue screen seems to be an issue with initializing the...
View ArticleCorrupted Ubuntu VMs over time
We have 6 servers in our datacenter mostly Proliant 380 gen 8 and 9 with raid card. Running Proxmox 8.3.1 over Raid 50 on SAS drives one of our servers as 8 SATA SSD. We encounter each month or so vm...
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PROXMOX Ceph Cluster node1 unable to access ceph storage
i've configured Ceph reef on 3 nodes and connected that cluster to an smb share with VM backups on it. now when i attempt to restore VMs to the ceph storage from the SMB share on nodes Node2 and Node3...
View ArticlePractical Difference Between ZFS, iSCSI, and ZFS over iSCSI
I’m exploring different storage options in Proxmox VE and would like to better understand the practical differences between ZFS, iSCSI, and ZFS over iSCSI. When does it make more sense to use ZFS...
View ArticleVery Slow Tape Performance
Hi all, I’m experiencing extremely slow tape backup performance using Proxmox Backup Server (PBS), and I’m trying to determine the bottleneck. My backups are writing to LTO8 tapes at speeds as low as...
View ArticleLost access to proxmox control panel
Hi, I added a new user "John" from the terminal, added it to the sudo group, then I proceeded to add "John" to the users from the Proxmox panel and gave all the rights. I tested that both SSH...
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VM not utilizing whole disk space
Hey guys, I setup proxmox a couple of month ago and only now find out that I probably made some mistakes. My usecase: Proxmox is installed on a 256GB SSD. I added a 4TB SSD. For now I only need one VM...
View Articleno swap on one node?
My "oldest" node that has been upgraded through a few versions of PVE does not appear to have any swap partitions/space defined. My "new" node that was installed recently from 8.3 ISO does have 8GB...
View ArticleGUI showing wrong total space
Hello, I have installed PROXMOX VE 8.3 and PROXMOX BACKUP SERVER 3.3. I have connected a NAS as datastore which has 5TB free space. But when I see the panel of datastore Summary it shows Usage 12% of...
View ArticleProxmox ZFS Seriennummern von HDs
Hallo Forum! Wenn eine Platte den Geist aufgegeben hat kan mit Zpool status anzeigen lassen welche Platte defekt ist. ZFS zeigt in meinem Fall eine "wwn...nummer an". Ich konnte die Platte aber nicht...
View ArticleFinally figured out the source of vm freezes when connecting with spice
I can say with 100% confidence that the virtio drivers/spice agent install media included in the latest version of the virtio iso that is linked to in the proxmox wiki is the source of my vm freezes....
View ArticleTASK ERROR: activating LV 'pve/data' failed: Activation of logical volume...
I have gotten this a couple of times and have been able to get past it, but I can no longer get me PVE sessions to start.... I've already tried: lvchange -an pve/data lvconvert --repair pve/data...
View ArticleUgreen dxp4800+ iGPU 99% success (Win Server 2025)
Hi all, I have a Ugreen DXP4800+ (Intel Pentium Gold 8505 Prozessor), and installed a Windows Server 2025 with latest Intel graphics driver. I can successfully run Windows with startup/boot screen with...
View ArticleLost of quorom between each nodes - how to startup in standalone mode
Hello, after a network misconfiguration the 2 nodes cluster + 1 Qdevice is no more starting. Node of the 2 nodes are ale to connect to the external voter (Qdevice) to be able start again....
View ArticleHoher RAM verbauch
Hi, habe einen Proxmox VE 8.2.7 am laufen. Das System wurde mit deser Version installiert (kein Update von älteren Versionen) (Xeon 4316, 256GB RAM, ZFS RaidZ2 mit 4x 4TB Samsung PM SSDs) Alle VMs...
View ArticleBandwidth issue for VMs - PVE as a router/fw
Hi, Weird behavior for a Ubuntu Server 24.04 VM. Download speed ~500 kbps While a debian 12 VM is able to download at full speed 1000 Mbps. On PVE host no bandwidth issue, firewall on (nftables),...
View ArticleMailserver keine Mails im Eingang
Hallo, bitte um Hilfe; habe einen homeserver mit ein paar Websites in Containern, läuft alles prima wie es soll, möchte nun eine mailserver aufsetzten in einen Container mit poste.io also docker yaml...
View ArticleÜber neue NIC ist Host nicht erreichbar
Hallo zusammen, ich brauche bitte eure Hilfe. Als ich PVE aufgesetzt habe, hatte ich nur die onboard NIC, nachdem aber opnSense drauf kommen soll habe ich mir noch eine I350-T4 besorgt. Plan ist jetzt...
View ArticleFleecing Storage (rbd)
Hello, i have a PVE Cluster with Ceph Storage. I discovered the fleecing option in the Advanced backup Task where i can select a rbd storage. How does it work in detail? Does it create a rbd snapshot...
View ArticleDell PowerEdge R6615 fans revving up and down constantly
Hello, we've got 3 Dell PowerEdge R6615 with an AMD Epyc 9174F in it and the fans are doing something weird. Most of the time they are at 8-9k RPM and fairly quiet. But every minute or 2 they are...
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