#proxmox-ve
Every post tagged proxmox-ve.
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How to Check If Your Hardware Supports Proxmox VE Before You Install It
Before you install Proxmox VE, spend fifteen minutes checking your CPU, RAM, storage, and BIOS settings. This guide shows the exact commands and BIOS options to check first.
How to Find and Read Proxmox VE Logs: A Beginner's Guide to the Task Log, System Log, and journalctl
When a backup fails or a VM won't boot, the fix starts with finding the right log. This guide walks through Proxmox VE's Task History, System Log tab, and journalctl so you stop guessing and start diagnosing.
How to Use Resource Pools in Proxmox VE to Organize VMs and Delegate Access
Proxmox VE resource pools let you group VMs, containers, and storage together and hand out permissions to the whole group at once. Here is how to create one, add members, and assign roles from the GUI and the pveum CLI.
How to Pass Through a GPU to an LXC Container in Proxmox VE (For Plex, Jellyfin, and Hardware Transcoding)
Skip the IOMMU and VFIO setup. Learn the much simpler way to give an LXC container access to your GPU for Jellyfin, Plex, or Frigate hardware transcoding in Proxmox VE.
How to Automate Proxmox VE Installation With an Answer File (proxmox-auto-install-assistant)
Tired of clicking through the Proxmox VE installer every time you rebuild a node? Learn how to use proxmox-auto-install-assistant and a TOML answer file to install Proxmox VE completely unattended.
How to Organize VMs and Containers in Proxmox VE Using Tags (Beginner's Guide)
Proxmox VE lets you label VMs and containers with colored tags, but almost nobody uses them. Here's how to add tags from the GUI and CLI, color-code them, and use the search bar to find any guest in seconds instead of scrolling through your resource tree.
Why Is Your Proxmox VE Storage Full? How to Check Disk Usage and Free Up Space
Proxmox says your storage is nearly full, but the numbers don't add up? Here's why local-lvm's usage bar lies to you, how to check real disk usage with pvesm status, lvs, and zfs, and how to safely free up space.
How to Set Up GPU Passthrough in Proxmox VE: A Beginner's Step-by-Step Guide
Give a virtual machine direct control of a real graphics card. This step-by-step guide covers IOMMU, VFIO, and attaching a GPU to a VM for Plex transcoding or gaming.
How to Rename a Virtual Machine or LXC Container in Proxmox VE
Stuck with a VM called "test123" or a container Proxmox renamed for you after a clone? Here's how to rename both properly, and why a VM's name and a container's hostname aren't the same kind of thing.
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