Archive for the ‘Proxmox’ Category

Pulse Proxmox – a real time monitoring for Proxmox VE Proxmox Mail Gateway PBS and Docker infrastructure with alerts and webhooks

Freitag, Oktober 24th, 2025

Home Lab 2025 – Server Monitoring Tool ‚Beszel‘ with a Docker/Portainer Setup in Minutes and Easy to Use

Mittwoch, Oktober 22nd, 2025

 

To uninstall the Beszel agent run the installation script with the -u option

pi@rpi-NodeRed-01:~ $

pi@rpi-NodeRed-01:~ $ curl -sL https://get.beszel.dev -o /tmp/install-agent.sh && chmod +x /tmp/install-agent.sh && /tmp/install-agent.sh -u
Stopping and disabling the agent service…
Removed /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/beszel-agent.service.
Removing the systemd service file…
Removing the daily update service and timer…
Removing the Beszel Agent directory…
Removing the dedicated user for the agent service…
Beszel Agent has been uninstalled successfully!

pi@rpi-NodeRed-01:~ $

Docker & Portainer – eine Schritt-für-Schritt Installationsanleitung

Mittwoch, Oktober 22nd, 2025
docker run -d -p 8000:8000 -p 9443:9443 –name=portainer –restart=always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer-ce:latest

Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) 9.0.11 – the best practices for running Docker inside Proxmox using virtual machines or LXC containers explain why you should avoid installing Docker directly on the Proxmox host and share my recommended settings for networking storage and backups

Freitag, Oktober 17th, 2025

Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) 9.0.10 – pass through N100 Intel Alder Lake-N UHD integrated iGPU Graphics

Montag, Oktober 13th, 2025

Thomas-Krenn.AG – Proxmox VE 9.0 Neuerungen & Proxmox Datacenter Manager 0.9

Mittwoch, Oktober 8th, 2025

Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) 9.0.6 – how to check if a Proxmox USB hard drive is in standby mode using the hdparm command

Freitag, Oktober 3rd, 2025

Run hdparm -C /dev/sd<x> to check if the drive is in the standby state

root@pve-s740-04:~# hdparm -C /dev/sdc
/dev/sdc:
SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
drive state is: standby
root@pve-s740-04:~#
root@pve-s740-01:~# hdparm -C /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
drive state is: active/idle

root@pve-s740-01:~#

Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) 9.0.6 – Cluster Node sicher entfernen & neu installieren

Montag, September 22nd, 2025

Proxmox Datacenter Manager (PDM) 0.9 Beta 1 – introduces a central interface for managing Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) nodes and clusters

Dienstag, September 16th, 2025

Proxmox Datacenter Manager (PDM) – Roadmap

You can use the official ISO image to install Proxmox Datacenter Manager (PDM) on a virtual machine or bare metal host

https://enterprise.proxmox.com/iso/

Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) 9.0.6 – how to remove a directory entry e.g. ‚BackupUSB‘

Samstag, September 13th, 2025

# grep -R -i /mnt/pve/BackupUSB /etc/
/etc/systemd/system/mnt-pve-BackupUSB.mount:Where=/mnt/pve/BackupUSB
/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/mnt-pve-BackupUSB.mount:Where=/mnt/pve/BackupUSB
grep: /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/mnt-pve-Backup\x2dpve\x2ds740\x2d04.mount: No such file or directory
/etc/mtab:/dev/sdc1 /mnt/pve/BackupUSB ext4 rw,relatime 0 0
/etc/pve/storage.cfg: path /mnt/pve/BackupUSB
# systemctl disable mnt-pve-BackupUSB.mount
# umount /mnt/pve/BackupUSB
# vi /proc/mounts
/dev/sdc1 /mnt/pve/BackupUSB ext4 rw,relatime 0 0
# rm /etc/systemd/system/mnt-pve-BackupUSB.mount
You have to also remove the „dir: BackupUSB“ section from /etc/pve/storage.cfg
# vi /etc/pve/storage.cfg

dir: BackupUSB
path /mnt/pve/BackupUSB
content images,rootdir,snippets,backup,iso,vztmpl
is_mountpoint 1
nodes pve-s740-04

Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) 9.0.5 – hardening tips you shouldn’t skip

Freitag, August 29th, 2025

Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) 9.0.5 – set CPU type to ‚host‘ for a Microsoft Windows Server 2022 VM as a best practice

Dienstag, August 26th, 2025

Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) – Microsoft Windows Server 2022 guest best practices

Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) 9.0.5 – set CPU type to ‚host‘ for a Microsoft Windows 11 VM as a best practice

Dienstag, August 26th, 2025

Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) – Microsoft Windows 11 guest best practices

Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) 9.0.5 – auf einem Hetzner Server installieren

Samstag, August 23rd, 2025

Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) 9.0.5 – HomeLab Installation eines virtualisierten Proxmox HA Clusters mit Ceph und das ganze auf nur einem nativen Proxmox Server

Donnerstag, August 21st, 2025

Install a VM on a Proxmox cluster member

Migrate a VM between a Proxmox cluster

HA affinity and anti-affinity are managed using new HA resource affinity rules