Re: [PVE-User] Proxmox upgrade 4 - 5

2018-09-10 Thread John Crisp
On 10/09/18 11:32, Thomas Lamprecht wrote: >> >> Perhaps a note on the wiki to say check for space before upgrading older >> systems would be helpful (assuming you have an older system with this) >> > > yes, makes sense to note this! Bit bad luck to run into this just on major > upgrade... It

Re: [PVE-User] Proxmox upgrade 4 - 5

2018-09-10 Thread John Crisp
On 10/09/18 11:05, Marco Gaiarin wrote: > > Sayed that... welcome to the «damned me! why i've crated a so small > /boot (or /) partition!» sysadmin (very large ;) group. ;-) > LOL - but actually it was created automatically by Prox when it was originally installed so not really my fault ;-)

[PVE-User] Proxmox upgrade 4 - 5

2018-09-10 Thread John Crisp
tem with this) Beyond that, thank you for making the transition so easy. B. Rgds John Crisp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ pve-user mailing list pve-user@pve.proxmox.com https://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user

Re: [PVE-User] HTTPS for download.proxmox.com

2017-11-30 Thread John Crisp
On 30/11/17 14:34, Dietmar Maurer wrote: >> On 11/30/2017 02:21 PM, Dietmar Maurer wrote: I greatly respect the work you do on Proxmox but this specific response is under your habitual standards from a security standpoint. >>> >>> Exactly. That is why we provide the enterprise

Re: [PVE-User] Prox 5.1 NoVNC Console popout obscures screen

2017-10-27 Thread John Crisp
On 26/10/17 16:49, Dietmar Maurer wrote: >> What was really frustrating, whether in a window or full screen, the >> flyout on the left kept obscuring stuff. >> >> eg >> >> http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-261017-164001.php >> >> Can the flyout be moved at all ? > > You can simply move it

[PVE-User] Prox 5.1 NoVNC Console popout obscures screen

2017-10-26 Thread John Crisp
I have just installed Prox 5.1 I ran up a VM and then used the console. What was really frustrating, whether in a window or full screen, the flyout on the left kept obscuring stuff. eg http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-261017-164001.php Can the flyout be moved at all ? B. Rgds John

Re: [PVE-User] Query disk usage

2017-03-06 Thread John Crisp
On 06/03/17 15:29, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: > On 03/06/2017 10:22 AM, John Crisp wrote: >> I am a bit puzzled as to how to do a simple disk usage query on Proxmox >> 4 with LVM thin. > > I suppose you would like to know how much data are using your VMs using > thin log

Re: [PVE-User] Manager Skins/Themes

2016-10-07 Thread John Crisp
On 07/10/16 13:10, Frank Thommen wrote: > On 10/04/2016 10:47 AM, John Crisp wrote: >> >> Anyway, I guess I am in a minority of one and will be ignored. > > You are not alone. I am with you, even though I wouldn't have > formulated it so harshly :-). > Thanks - at

Re: [PVE-User] ProxMox 4.2 SMART on HP RAID

2016-10-05 Thread John Crisp
On 05/10/16 01:52, Hexis wrote: > Does anyone here use an HP RAID (HP P410, etc.) with ProxMox and monitor > the SMART status on the drives using smartctl or another method? I want > to monitory my server via SNMP for drive health and I am attempting to > determine the best way to do this. > If

Re: [PVE-User] Manager Skins/Themes

2016-10-04 Thread John Crisp
On 03/10/16 21:12, Brian :: wrote: > Jeasuss - someone got out of the bed on the wrong side today! > :-) > I've just been working on something that had had me stuck in the 4.3 > UI for the past 48 hours on and off. > Personally I like it but thats just my opinion - and I did give the > guys

[PVE-User] Manager Skins/Themes

2016-10-03 Thread John Crisp
Is there any way that there could be a choice of skins/themes for the manager ? You just get used to one, and yet another layout change comes barreling down. The latest 4.3 update IMHO are absolutely awful with the second vertical column. It is confusing on the eye and just looks messy. It makes

Re: [PVE-User] PVE 4.3: Not enough space for side-by-side performance graphs

2016-09-30 Thread John Crisp
On 29/09/16 19:01, Frank Thommen wrote: > Hi all, > > the upgrade to PVE 4.3 introduced some nice features in the GUI, e.g. And is there anyway to go back to the old style with menu items across instead of down ? Sorry - can't get on with it at all. Two vertical menus side by side on a desktop

Re: [PVE-User] LV Not Available - could not open disk - no such file or directory

2016-09-02 Thread John Crisp
On 02/09/16 07:55, Dietmar Maurer wrote: >> I still think that for at least single server installs lvm-thin is not >> necessarily the best default option, and there should possibly be more >> warning for some to RTFM before hitting go for a default install. > > I do not really think this is

Re: [PVE-User] LV Not Available - could not open disk - no such file or directory

2016-09-01 Thread John Crisp
On 01/09/16 16:38, Dietmar Maurer wrote: >>> restore your data with that copy (I would not touch the original disks). >>> >> >> Yup, I can see that would be a possibility, if you could get to the >> disks easily a 1000 miles away buried in a data centre :-) > > Maybe the can put a another

Re: [PVE-User] LV Not Available - could not open disk - no such file or directory

2016-09-01 Thread John Crisp
On 01/09/16 13:27, Dietmar Maurer wrote: >> What is worrying is >> >> a) there is no effective way to back up a VM if you cannot mount the >> partition > > The basic idea of backup is that you do the backup "before" you have > a data loss ... > Yes, very droll ROFL. I should really have

Re: [PVE-User] LV Not Available - could not open disk - no such file or directory

2016-09-01 Thread John Crisp
On 01/09/16 12:19, John Crisp wrote: >> But John wrote: >> >>> There was an issue with the BBWC on the RAID >> >> So it is likely that more than this is damaged (what happened exactly?)... >> > > Extremely unlikely. Hmmm... well after further inves

Re: [PVE-User] LV Not Available - could not open disk - no such file or directory

2016-09-01 Thread John Crisp
Hi Dietmar On 01/09/16 08:38, Dietmar Maurer wrote: >> In reply to Dietmar in absence of John: >> >> root@pve:~# lvchange -a y pve/data >>Thin pool transaction_id is 0, while expected 3. > > > Does it help if you reboot the node? > No - we tried that (it's a single machine/node - no

[PVE-User] LV Not Available - could not open disk - no such file or directory

2016-08-31 Thread John Crisp
Earlier today we had a working Prox 4.2.2 installation There was an issue with the BBWC on the RAID that was fixed by the data centre. After we restarted the machine (and apparent successful shutdown of the VM) we found that the VMs failed to start with the type of error as detailed below. The

Re: [PVE-User] vzdump backup timing out

2015-11-11 Thread John Crisp
Sorry - just jumped on the end of this as I had the same problem that I was trying to diagnose On 11/11/15 15:56, Daniel Bayerdorffer wrote: > Thanks, that's good to know! >> >> Thank you for the help and advice. I'll try staggering the backups for now >> and see how it goes. I do like

Re: [PVE-User] vzdump backup timing out

2015-11-11 Thread John Crisp
Hi Dietmar, On 11/11/15 16:29, Dietmar Maurer wrote: >> But there is no sign of 'maxfiles' option and as this is an >> automatically generated file it would seem that you can't easily modify it. > > maxfiles is a storage property... > Yes it is a configuration option under storage. But what

Re: [PVE-User] vzdump backup timing out

2015-11-11 Thread John Crisp
On 11/11/15 17:55, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:40:11 +0100 > John Crisp <jcr...@safeandsoundit.co.uk> wrote: > >> >> Yes it is a configuration option under storage. But what does it >> actually control as it doesn't appear to be clear ? >&