Check for power supply and heat issues.
Tiny PC might not have enough power for processor+disks, try a bigger brick, or not enough cooling.
Proxmox Thread - Home Lab / Virtualization
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Tiny PC might not have enough power for processor+disks, try a bigger brick, or not enough cooling.
Yeah, power could be an issue. Heat unlikely as it has a fan, plus it doesn't feel hot or even the fan doesn't run at high speed while streaming videos. Thanks for the hint about power. Will try a bigger powerbrick.
You could also stream the system logs to another server, say a pi 4/5 running a syslog server. This could help troubleshoot the errors causing the machine to shut down. On a side note, you can also try https://system-bridge.timmo.dev/ to monitor system parameters.
rsaeon
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MarioBros
Forerunner
hey Proxmox experts - need ur inputs
I am currently running Proxmox on a 512gb Gen 4 nvme ssd, the usage is very less not more than 100gb overall, running few VMs and LXC containers, that's it.
I have a spare 256gb nvme which is gen 3 and 100% health
- I now want to replace the 512gb ssd with the smaller capacity 256gb.. what is the easiest process?
- will clonezilla work fine for cloning the SSDs? and I can u just swap the devices and I am good to go?
- what about the storage partition size differences?
local(pve) has 100gb partition
local-lvm(pve) has 375gb partition
I am currently running Proxmox on a 512gb Gen 4 nvme ssd, the usage is very less not more than 100gb overall, running few VMs and LXC containers, that's it.
I have a spare 256gb nvme which is gen 3 and 100% health
- I now want to replace the 512gb ssd with the smaller capacity 256gb.. what is the easiest process?
- will clonezilla work fine for cloning the SSDs? and I can u just swap the devices and I am good to go?
- what about the storage partition size differences?
local(pve) has 100gb partition
local-lvm(pve) has 375gb partition
rsaeon
Innovator
Clonezilla used to work years ago with PVE 6, when going to a larger drive. It's never worked for downsizing or upsizing on 7 or 8 for me.
It's because the thin-pool complicates things.
The quickest way is to backup your vm's, and install proxmox on the new drive, and then restore from backup.
Everything else is just not worth the frustration, and this is from experience as I've done this almost every month the last few years.
Backup, new install, restore is also the quickest way to change ip or host name. Every other way is a time sink.
Mount a usb sata or nvme enclosure with an older ssd and use that for backup/restore.
It's because the thin-pool complicates things.
The quickest way is to backup your vm's, and install proxmox on the new drive, and then restore from backup.
Everything else is just not worth the frustration, and this is from experience as I've done this almost every month the last few years.
Backup, new install, restore is also the quickest way to change ip or host name. Every other way is a time sink.
Mount a usb sata or nvme enclosure with an older ssd and use that for backup/restore.
This order is important. I had once fresh installed first, and then went looking for backups. (Was working with multiple Proxmox hosts, I thought I had backed up this one but hadn't).
MarioBros
Forerunner
I though cloning the disk would be much easier...
the backup, install PVE on new disk & restore worked perfectly, I had followed this method a year back and it had worked
I have already set static IPs for those VMs and containers, so it was a breeze after restore..
thank for ur inputs..
rsaeon
Innovator
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