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How to Set Backup Retention Rules in Proxmox VE (Keep-Last, Keep-Daily, and More Explained)
Proxmox VE keeps every vzdump backup forever unless you tell it otherwise. Here's how to configure keep-last, keep-daily, and the other retention counters on local, NFS, or CIFS backup storage.
How to Replace a Failed Disk in a Proxmox VE ZFS Pool (Step-by-Step Guide)
Your ZFS pool just went DEGRADED. Here's exactly how to identify the failed disk, swap it safely, and resilver a mirror or RAIDZ pool back to healthy on Proxmox VE 9.x.
How to Benchmark Your Proxmox VE Storage With fio (A Beginner's Guide to Testing Disk Performance)
Your Summary tab graphs won't tell you real IOPS or throughput. Here's how to install fio, run a random-write and a sequential-write test, and read the output without guessing what the numbers mean.
How to Enable Discard (TRIM) for VM Disks in Proxmox VE and Keep Your SSD Fast
Thin-provisioned VM disks in Proxmox VE don't shrink back down on their own, and SSDs do extra write work they don't need to. Here's how to turn on Discard and TRIM the right way.
How to Choose the Right Disk Bus Type for a VM in Proxmox VE (IDE vs SATA vs SCSI vs VirtIO)
IDE, SATA, SCSI, or VirtIO Block? Here's what each VM disk bus type actually does in Proxmox VE, why VirtIO SCSI single is the default since 7.3, and how to switch safely without a blue screen.
How to Resize an LXC Container's Root Disk in Proxmox VE (Fix a Full Disk with pct resize)
Running out of space inside an LXC container? Here's how to safely grow the container's root disk with pct resize or the Proxmox web interface, plus the mistakes that trip people up and why some storage types won't let you do it live.
How to Resize local-lvm and Grow Your Root Partition in Proxmox VE (Reclaim Wasted Disk Space)
Fresh Proxmox VE install and your root filesystem is already capped at 96 GB while local-lvm sits on hundreds of unused gigabytes? Here's how to safely remove or shrink that thin pool and hand the space back to root.
How to Back Up Proxmox VE to an External USB Hard Drive (Step-by-Step Guide)
No Proxmox Backup Server yet? Learn how to turn a plain USB hard drive into working Proxmox VE backup storage, with scheduled jobs and safe mount settings.
How to Limit Disk I/O (Bandwidth and IOPS) for a Virtual Machine in Proxmox VE
One noisy VM can slow down every other guest on shared storage. Here is how to cap read/write speed and IOPS per disk in Proxmox VE, from the GUI and the qm command line.
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