Proxmox Thread - Home Lab / Virtualization

Hi, I started dabbling in Homelab a few months back. Have a tiny pc with 12th Intel as my proxmox node and just added a NAS PC running TrueNas a week back.
I need advice from you guys about a peculiar issue I am facing. My TrueNas pc shuts down after some time on its own. There are no errors when I restart it using the hardware power button.
On my proxmox, I have a VM running a mediaserver using docker along with some LXCs for adguard, NPM, etc. It runs fine as long as the mediaserver VM is not running. But when I run it, the whole machine goes in reachable, even though the tiny PC is on. I have had it do this even while watching a video from the mediaserver through Plex. It seems high read write crashes it.
Any help, especially on the NAS machine shutting down would be much appreciated.
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.
 
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.
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.
 
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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
 
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.
 
I agree. Easier to backup the config, install in new drive and restore everything.
Downsizing is something I thought was easy but got complicated real fast
 
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