Re: [PVE-User] Unable to boot VM - boot stuck up

2019-04-17 Thread Gianni Milo
Hello - I booted from ISO and tried to reinstall / fix Grub - doesnt worked Guess you mean you chrooted into the guest os and you executed 'grub-install /dev/sda' or something similar. Assuming that disk has a MBR layout of course, did you also check if the boot partition was active? What error

Re: [PVE-User] creating 2 node cluster via crossover cable

2019-05-30 Thread Gianni Milo
On Thu, 30 May 2019 at 16:15, Adam Weremczuk wrote: > This is really what I want as both nodes will be using own local storage > and and act as an active-passive node (shared zfs pool). > I would also try drbd9/linstor ontop of zfs and leverage from it's active/active setup... would fiddle

Re: [PVE-User] creating 2 node cluster via crossover cable

2019-05-31 Thread Gianni Milo
> AFAIK storage/migration traffic will not be performed using corosync IPs > but primary ("hostname") IPs. Yes, that's correct. Once you decide to separate the corosync from the rest traffic, it will be used only for that purpose. Storage and live migration traffic will use the other, "primary"

Re: [PVE-User] Trouble with Win2016 server...

2019-06-20 Thread Gianni Milo
Can you please post the VM config file ? Also, which type of storage are you using for storing the VM disk(s)? Sounds strange that the event log security database gets corrupted, perhaps RAM or disk issues? Have you tried switching to IDE disk mode temporarily and see if the issue is reproducible

Re: [PVE-User] Proxmox storage usage

2019-06-24 Thread Gianni Milo
On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 at 12:22, Rutger Verhoeven wrote: root@server5:/var/lib/vz# pvs > PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree > /dev/sda3 pve lvm2 a-- 499.50g 0 > /dev/sdb1 pve lvm2 a--1.37t 371.91g Looks like you have (mistakenly) added both /dev/sda3 and /dev/sdb1 to the

Re: [PVE-User] Strange cluster/graphics problem in 3-node cluster

2019-05-16 Thread Gianni Milo
Are you using LACP or linux bonding on node2,3 for the VM + cluster traffic ? Are you using VLANs to separate VM/cluster traffic ? Have you checked multicast notes in the pve wiki ? Have you tried UDPU instead of multicast as last option ? No idea about missing rrd graphs... On Thu, 16 May

Re: [PVE-User] ZFS failed drive and spare

2019-05-02 Thread Gianni Milo
The following blog post might help you getting a clearer picture on how hot spares work on zfs and ultimately how to achieve your goal ... https://blogs.oracle.com/eschrock/zfs-hot-spares On Wed, 1 May 2019 at 23:22, Mike O'Connor wrote: > Hi Guys > > How do I remove the FAILED/OFFLINE drive

Re: [PVE-User] how to add existing partition as Volume Group ?

2019-07-10 Thread Gianni Milo
Have you created a PV and VG to be able to actually use that space on PVE? Once you do that, you can add that VG to PVE storage providers. You could then add a LVM based disk, from that storage provider, to the Freenas VM. P.S Don't think that a virtualized Freenas is a good idea, especially

Re: [PVE-User] Intermittent NIC Connectivity after Host Upgrade to PVE 4.15.18-43

2019-07-10 Thread Gianni Milo
Are you able to boot on a previous kernel and see if the problem returns ? Gianni On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 16:06, JR Richardson wrote: > Hi All, > > I recently upgraded a host within a 4 Node Cluster from > pve-manager/5.2-5/eb24855a (running kernel: 4.15.18-1-pve) to >

Re: [PVE-User] NFS Storage issue

2019-04-25 Thread Gianni Milo
Hello I have a Synology with High Availability serving NFS storage to Proxmox. > A couple of months ago, this started happening: > > Apr 24 12:32:51 proxmox-1 pvestatd[3298]: unable to activate storage > 'NAS' - directory '/mnt/pve/NAS' does not exist or is unreachable > Apr 24 13:08:00 proxmox-1

Re: [PVE-User] ZFS - question

2019-08-13 Thread Gianni Milo
> > I heave 2 qestion about zfs. > In my four ssd disk RW speed is 550MB/s > But zfs matrix work only 700MB/s (for comparison mdadm 1400MB/s). > This same on nvme (m.2) disk. > Self m.2 2500MB/s. > In raid-z1 only shows 1500MB/s peer disk. ZFS is much more complex than mdraid, so it's "normal"

Re: [PVE-User] Problem installing Qemu-guest-agent on Windows

2019-08-18 Thread Gianni Milo
Well, have you enabled the agent in the properties of the VM as described in that guide? Without doing that, the device won't appear in Device Manager ... qm set VMID --agent 1 Also, you mentioned that you created the VM in VirtualBox. How did you migrate it to PVE ? Did you remove the

Re: [PVE-User] Unable to provision a virtual machine on local storage by cloning a template from a shared storage

2019-07-31 Thread Gianni Milo
> We want to be able to clone a template from a shared storage to a local > storage on the node. I don’t see why that would not be technically > possible, it is just copying one file from one disk to another. When you right click on the "template -> clone" and you choose "mode:full clone", it

Re: [PVE-User] Unable to provision a virtual machine on local storage by cloning a template from a shared storage

2019-07-31 Thread Gianni Milo
> I want to "full clone” a template from a shared storage on a node (NFS) to > the local storage on the same node (SSD) and the local storage is not > listed in the target storage drop down box. Take a look at the attached > image. Maybe it’s important to say this was with PVE 5.1. If anything

Re: [PVE-User] zfs 0.7 no discard

2019-07-09 Thread Gianni Milo
Haven't moved to zfs 0.8 but you could have similar results by enabling compression on zfs and by periodically executing fstrim (linux) or sdelete (windows) inside VMs to reclaim unused space ? On Linux VMs, adding "discard" in fstab mount options (ext4) may have similar results as when executing

Re: [PVE-User] zfs 0.7 no discard

2019-07-09 Thread Gianni Milo
I'm > not clear on is if I need both to be 0.8. > > Also, I assume this can be done retrospectively ? so if I upgrade then I > can run fstrim and it will clear the space in the host...? Maybe that > question is better posed to the zfsonlinux list though... > > Cheers, > Mark >

Re: [PVE-User] Discard transmission between VM / LVM / mdadm layers ?

2019-12-12 Thread Gianni Milo
All involved layers, from guest OS down to the actual backing storage, must participate for a successful trim/discard support. For more information on this have a look at the documentation notes... https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#qm_hard_disk_discard Regards, G. On Thu,

Re: [PVE-User] Proxmox 5 to root on ZFS

2019-12-15 Thread Gianni Milo
Don't have experience with OVH, but depending on the situation, it might be possible to "transfer" the existing OS installation to a ZFS backed setup. To do so, it will be required to have an additional hdd, partition it, create a ZFS pool on it with proper datasets (rpool/ROOT/pve-1 etc..), set

Re: [PVE-User] P2V of an XP box, VM ask for fwcfg driver...

2019-10-25 Thread Gianni Milo
Check if you can find something useful in here ... https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/archive-virtio/ On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 at 09:59, Marco Gaiarin wrote: > > Ok, it is a bit late to P2V a XP box, but... > > > P2V done (on PVE 5.4), now the VMs ask at every boot

Re: [PVE-User] SQL server 2014 poor performances

2019-10-28 Thread Gianni Milo
> > > Have you tested the performance of your ssd zpool from the command line > on > > the host? > > > Do you mean vzperf ? > I think he means doing zfs performance tests on the host itself rather than inside the VM. This is in order to rule out the possibility that the slow performance is caused

Re: [PVE-User] pve-zsync - no zvol replication ?

2020-03-03 Thread Gianni Milo
Could the following be the reason ...? zvols are being supported as far as I can tell... Limitations - not possible to sync recursive G. On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 at 12:30, Roland @web.de wrote: > hello, > > apparently pve-zsync does not seem to replicate zfs zvols (but only > regular zfs

Re: [PVE-User] Creating VM with thin provisioning (please help me understand it).

2020-03-05 Thread Gianni Milo
> So ... Lets suppose I created 5 VMs about 200Gb each on a 1TB space. > Im using less than 50% on each VM and now I need to add a 6th VM ? Even > Im using thin storage , I will have no free space. > What can I do ? When using ThinLVM a VM initially allocates the same amount of data as the

Re: [PVE-User] PVE 5.4 - resize a NFS disk truncated it

2020-01-28 Thread Gianni Milo
Have you tried booting from a recovery media, then first check reported size within fdisk, then after try to fsck the disk (this may lead to some data loss by itself) ? Is the drive/partition mountable at all? If not, then you may have to try repairing its qcow2/raw file. There are some guides on

Re: [PVE-User] PVE Cluster: New authentication is required to access each node from GUI

2020-01-25 Thread Gianni Milo
Things I would check or modify... - output of 'pvecm s' and 'pvecm n' commands. - syslog on each node for any clues. - ntp. - separate cluster (corosync) network from storage network (i.e In your case, use --link2, LAN). G. On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 at 15:44, Frank Thommen wrote: > Dear all, > > I

Re: [PVE-User] Config/Status commands stopped to respond

2020-01-28 Thread Gianni Milo
First thing that comes to my mind when having only 2 nodes in the cluster is that perhaps the cluster is not quorate ? I would check that first and maybe restart the related services... G. On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 at 09:40, Dmytro O. Redchuk via pve-user < pve-user@pve.proxmox.com> wrote: > > > >

Re: [PVE-User] Config/Status commands stopped to respond

2020-01-28 Thread Gianni Milo
To: PVE User List > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 12:35:08 +0200 > Subject: Re: [PVE-User] Config/Status commands stopped to respond > У вт., 28-го січ. 2020, о 10:26 Gianni Milo wrote: > > First thing that comes to my mind when having only 2 nodes in the cluster &g

Re: [PVE-User] VZdump: No such disk, but the disk is there!

2020-02-14 Thread Gianni Milo
If it's happening randomly, my best guess would be that it might be related to high i/o during the time frame that the backup takes place. Have you tried creating multiple backup schedules which will take place at different times ? Setting backup bandwidth limits might also help. Check the PVE

Re: [PVE-User] Why are images and rootdir not supported on CephFS?

2020-02-14 Thread Gianni Milo
This has been discussed in the past, see the post below for some answers... https://www.mail-archive.com/pve-user@pve.proxmox.com/msg10160.html On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 at 22:57, Frank Thommen wrote: > Dear all, > > the PVE documentation on >

Re: [PVE-User] VM network disconnect issue after upgrade to PVE 6.1

2020-02-20 Thread Gianni Milo
Hello, See comments below... vmbr0 is on a 2x1Gbit bond0 > Ceph public and private are on 2x10Gbit bond2 > Backup network is IPv6 on 2x1Gbit bond1, to a Synology NAS. > Where's the cluster (corosync) traffic flowing ? On vmbr0 ? Would be a good idea to split that as well if possible (perhaps by

Re: [PVE-User] How to get rid of default thin-provisioned default LV "data"?

2020-01-16 Thread Gianni Milo
This should be a case of removing (or comment out) its corresponding entry in /etc/pve/storage.cfg and then removing it by using the usual lvm commands. You can then "convert" it to thick lvm and re-add it in the config file... Gianni On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 18:26, Frank Thommen wrote: > Dear

Re: [PVE-User] LVM/pvesm udev database initialization warnings after import of KVM images

2020-01-10 Thread Gianni Milo
Does issuing 'udevadm trigger' helps? On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 at 12:44, Frank Thommen wrote: > Dear all, > > after having (successfully) imported two KVM disk images from oVirt, LVM > and pvesm complain about some udev initialization problem: > > root@pve01:~# pvesm status >WARNING: Device

Re: [PVE-User] LVM/pvesm udev database initialization warnings after import of KVM images

2020-01-10 Thread Gianni Milo
uch. > > Is this a step that normally has to be executed after having imported a > disk image? If yes, then this could perhaps be added to > https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE#Qemu.2FKVM > . > > Cheers > frank > > > On 1/10/20 3:32 PM,

Re: [PVE-User] Proxmox 6 loses network every 24 hours

2020-04-16 Thread Gianni Milo
Maybe you can find some clues in syslogs during the time it goes off ? Check for either enp1s0 or vmbr0 for example. G. On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 14:32, Gerald Brandt wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Proxmox 6 server at SoYouStart https://www.soyoustart.com. I've > been running a server there for

Re: [PVE-User] cpus assign when creating vm or ct.

2020-04-06 Thread Gianni Milo
People are usually using more than one VM/CT per host, so allocating less cpu cores and ram per VM/CT than the host can support it's considered a "normal" thing to do. On the other hand if you plan using just one VM/CT on a single host, nothing is preventing you from allocating all cpu cores and

Re: [PVE-User] Fwd: Hardware based License are not recognized from VM

2020-03-31 Thread Gianni Milo
Everything related to pci and usb passthrough can be found in the wiki. Have a look and see if you find anything useful in there. Good luck... https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Pci_passthrough https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/USB_Devices_in_Virtual_Machines On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 at 17:22, Sivakumar

Re: [PVE-User] local cdrom image

2020-03-29 Thread Gianni Milo
Go to Datacenter -> Storage and add a new (NFS) storage. Set the "content" to include "ISO image". Go to the VM properties and select the iso image from this storage location instead of "local:". On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 at 19:24, Alarig Le Lay wrote: > Hi, > > If an ISO is configured on a VM

Re: [PVE-User] Mellanox ConnectX-5 and SR-IOV

2020-05-15 Thread Gianni Milo
I don't own this hardware too, but was able to compile its kernel modules (.ko) from its source package which is provided at Mellanox web site. I used a test PVE (VM) with pve-kernel and pve-headers installed on it. Then I extracted the source package (tar.gz) on temp location and executed

Re: [PVE-User] zvol vs qcow2 on zfs

2020-06-09 Thread Gianni Milo
> is anybody using qcow2 on zfs in production at a larger scale or someone > wants to share his thoughts/experience with using qcow2 on zfs ? I would not use qcow2 images on a zfs dataset. I would prefer raw images instead because the overhead is less and you can snapshot the VMs at the zfs