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Nov262025 by dineshNo Comments

How to Back Up Proxmox to NAS (Step-by-Step Complete Guide)

Backing up your Proxmox VE server to a NAS (Network Attached Storage) is essential for data protection, disaster recovery, and business continuity. This guide explains multiple reliable methods to back up Proxmox VMs, containers, and configuration files to a NAS—without using images, making it ideal for documentation or clean blog publishing. Why Back Up Proxmox to a NAS? Centralized storage for backups Protection against host failure Easy restore to same or another Proxmox node Cost-effective compared to cloud backups Works with NFS, SMB/CIFS, or iSCSI Supported NAS Protocols in Proxmox Proxmox supports the following NAS types: NFS (Recommended) SMB / CIFS iSCSI (advanced use) Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) (best option if available) Met...

Nov262025 by dineshNo Comments

How to Migrate VM from VMware ESXi to Proxmox VE (Step-by-Step Guide)

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Migrating virtual machines from VMware ESXi to Proxmox VE is common when switching to an open-source, subscription-free virtualization platform. This guide explains the cleanest and safest migration method using OVF/OVA and qcow2 conversion. Prerequisites Before starting, ensure: ✅ Administrator access to ESXi & Proxmox✅ VM is powered OFF✅ Enough disk space on Proxmox✅ Proxmox ISO storage ready✅ SSH access to Proxmox 🧱 Architecture Overview ESXi VM → OVA/OVF → Disk Conversion → Proxmox VM Step 1: Power Off VM & Export from ESXi Login to ESXi Host Client Right-click the VM → Power → Shut Down Click Actions → Export You will get: .ova (single file) OR .ovf + .vmdk 📂 Step 2: Upload Files to Proxmox Upload the export...

Jun282023 by dineshNo Comments

How to Delete Local-LVM and Resize Storage in Proxmox VE

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Welcome to proxmox tutorial. Here we will guide you how to delete the proxmox default local-lvm and mount the drive into the local storage Frist login into the proxmox after that select the datacenter-storage-Delete the "local-lvm" Edit the "local" and select all content LVREMOVE command Deleting a volume frees its storage back to the volume group, which can then be used to create new logical volumes or support growing an existing volume. lvremove command can be used to delete an LVM volume which we no longer intend to use. Please make sure you take a backup of the mount point in case you may want the data in it later on: lvremove /dev/pve/data LVRESIZE command lvresize is a command in Linux used to resize a Logical Volume (LV) in a Linux Logical Volume Manager ...

Oct302020 by dineshNo Comments

Resize Proxmox VM disks

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1. Resizing guest disk General considerations When you resize the disk of a VM, to avoid confusion and disasters think the process like adding or removing a disk platter. If you enlarge the hard disk, once you have added the disk plate, your partition table and file system knows nothing about the new size, so you have to act inside the VM to fix it. gnome proxmox If you reduce (shrink) the hard disk, of course removing the last disk plate will probably destroy your file system and remove the data in it! So in this case it is paramount to act in the VM in advance, reducing the file system and the partition size. SystemRescueCD comes very handy for it, just add its iso as cdrom of your VM and set boot priority to CD-ROM. Shrinking disks is not suppo...

Oct112020 by dineshNo Comments

Proxmox Cloud-Init OS template creation

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In this guide we will go over creating a Proxmox KVM Template from a Cloud Image. This same process will work for any Cloud-Init Openstack based image type you can find online. Having done a number of these for our Proxmox based VPS service I wanted to post up a guide to help anyone else looking to do the same thing. My workflow for customizing one of those for use with Proxmox with cloud-init deployment from WHMCS and root login is below. Once you setup one template you can rapidly reinstall new containers and test stuff. Setup Environment If not installed already installed you will need libguestfs-tools : apt-get install libguestfs-tools To edit the image before importing. We will use virt-edit which is a part of libguestfs-tools. For the sake of s...

Oct112020 by dineshNo Comments

How to add storage to Proxmox

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Using an HDD for the proxmox host, the VMs and the containers was causing delays and long iowait.After upgrading to an SSD there was a spare 1TB hard drive that could be used for storing containers that write constantly big chunks of data to the hdd,something that can cause increased wear to the ssd. Since the needs are not complicated the setup is simple and does not use raid,zfs etc. After the hdd setup, an elasticsearch stack container with netflow analysis was moved to the hdd,and although the read speeds do not match the performance of the containers running from the ssd, the hdd not having anything else running has an amazing increase in data read compared to the previous setup where the proxmox host and the VMs were based on the same hdd.This tutorial covers the following subj...

Jan12020 by dineshNo Comments

Monitor Server Logs in Real Time Using Log.io (Complete Guide)

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Log.io is a small application build on Node.js and Socket.io for monitoring real time Linux server logs through web interface. On RHEL/CentOS 7 Install Epel repositories using the following command. yum install http://fedora.mirrors.telekom.ro/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-2.noarch.rpm On RHEL/CentOS 6 --------------------- On RHEL/CentOS 6.x - 32 Bit --------------------- yum install http://fedora.mirrors.telekom.ro/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm --------------------- On RHEL/CentOS 6.x - 64 Bit --------------------- yum install http://fedora.mirrors.telekom.ro/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm After added the Epel repositories you can do a system upgrade by using following command line. yum update Now Install Node.js...

Oct12019 by dineshNo Comments

How To Install CPanel / WHM On Centos7 Server?

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What is cPanel? You can understand cPanel as a Linux based web hosting control panel with which you can attain a graphical interface as well as automation tools that are purely designed for simplifying a website or email hosting. It is the most reliable and perceptive commercial control panel for web hosting services. You can get it in a rich-featured form that is used by a powerful graphical user interface to manage entire shared, reseller and business hosting services. Why cPanel is required? We need cPanel simply due to the fact that it is the best web-based control panel in the market. No other web hosting management software can match its features and functionality. It is much safer and easy to use. In this article, we will focus on how to install cPanel and WHM on Cen...