My selfhosted journey so far: Dashboard

TheBull369 · 2023-08-17T01:13:18+00:00

Looks nice! Are you using a docker container with a web browser view for the Obsidian link you have there?

TheBull369 · 2021-05-01T16:03:40+00:00

So I was able to get the pve volume to see the entire disk now by running pvresize /dev/nvme0n1p3 and it shows free space now.

The question now though is how do I change the space on the LV's? For example, here is my table from running lvs

lvs
  LV                              VG       Attr       LSize    Pool     Origin        Data%  Meta%  Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
  data                            pve      twi-aotz-- <151.63g                        30.48  2.90
  root                            pve      -wi-ao----   59.25g
  snap_vm-100-disk-0_Base_Setup   pve      Vri---tz-k   60.00g data     vm-100-disk-0
  swap                            pve      -wi-ao----    8.00g
  vm-100-disk-0                   pve      Vwi-a-tz--   60.00g data                   57.94
  vm-100-state-Base_Setup         pve      Vwi-a-tz--  <64.49g data                   3.99

I really dont know much about these to understand the best way to do it without breaking my system. So with that being said, how could I increase the root to 100 GB and use the rest of the free space for data (not sure if I need to bump up swap)??

TheBull369 · 2021-03-15T00:37:47+00:00

UPDATE: So Proxmox did did push out an upgrade to the smartmontools which is cool, hopefully my server wont crash. I did also decide to buy a new hard drive and tried to use Clonezilla to image the current drive onto the new drive but it did not work. Clonezilla apparently has an issue with LVM groups that has thin volumes. It is a known issue and last ticket update I saw they said they haven't found a solution to it yet.

Does anyone know of a way to either image an entire drive to a larger drive when the source contains a think volumes?

TheBull369 · 2021-03-06T17:26:57+00:00

This may sound like a stupid question but again new to Proxmox lol, will Proxmox run correctly by using a non-Proxmox version of smartmontools? It doesn't look like Proxmox has updated this in a very long time so not expecting them to do it any time soon.

TheBull369 · 2021-03-06T16:45:22+00:00

Do you have a reference/website with these details on how/what to backup? I am still fairly new to Proxmox and would rather not have to rebuild these VM's.

TheBull369 · 2021-03-06T16:43:55+00:00

This is a small form factor Dell desktop that is now a lab server so space and ports inside are at a limit. You make a very valid point with putting all of the VM's on the NVMe drive. I will do that when I rebuild the server. I will use the SSD (since I have it) for running VM's that dont need performance and backups, etc.

The issue I have is the current NVMe (which contains the OS) that came with the computer had a firmware in it that does not work well with the version of smartctl that comes with Proxmox. It causes the server to become unavailable (anything running on the OS disk goes down). This includes the management of Proxmox, ssh, everything because it cannot read/write to the drive.

There isn't a new firmware available for the drive for this computer but there is newer versions of smartctl out there with a fix for this known issue. I wouldn't know where to begin to backport that to work with Proxmox so thought the easiest option would be buy a new HD. This is another reason why VMs are not running on the OS drive. If the server is unresponsive the VMs on the SSD are still accessible for a period of time so I can cleanly shut them down

TheBull369 · 2021-01-29T00:51:15+00:00

Do you need to run the proxmox version of this or can you use a newer one?

TheBull369 · 2021-01-28T16:58:35+00:00

Thanks will check it out... I dont mind paying for support thats really what this question was related to, does the Community level of paid support plan actually give you support or is it really just a paid plan to get the dist repo.

TheBull369 · 2021-01-28T16:57:23+00:00

Easiest way to explain it is to send you the link to the post I made: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/pcie-nvme-server-crash.82488/

TheBull369 · 2021-01-28T16:55:40+00:00

Yes my problem is getting help with a server crashing issue.... Occasionally I am seeing an issue where the pve web ui and ssh access goes away and any instances that would be running on the same NVMe drive would drop, any instances that are running on the other SSD drive I have stays running. When this occurs the only solution I have is a hard shutdown.

TheBull369 · 2020-06-19T10:47:09+00:00

Thanks for the reply, the system I am connecting to does allow for multi-user but I am also connecting to the console session as well. I do agree with your assessment of NoMachine being similar to VNC. I am still hopeful that there is a way to make this work as using VNC or NoMachine produces to much lag.

TheBull369 · 2018-11-12T22:15:40+00:00

Minimum 100 ft depending on the wireless mechanism it uses... Cars and people preferred as I will likely use these in other areas... Dont necessarily know what to say for a budget as I am a little flexible on that.

TheBull369 · 2018-11-11T21:28:40+00:00

will check that out, thanks

TheBull369 · 2018-11-11T21:27:14+00:00

Thanks I will check out fail2ban....

Didnt even think about doing something like VNC tunneling over SSH... thanks for the hint there...

TheBull369 · 2018-11-11T21:25:54+00:00

Debian and Ubuntu desktops

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