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Proxmox Cores vs Sockets: What the vCPU Settings Mean

Proxmox cores vs sockets explained: how the vCPU settings affect Linux and Windows guests, and why you should usually just use one socket.

NguyenSeptember 19, 20262 min read

Technical

PVE Host cannot reach WireGuard peer through LXC container tunnel: fix the routing

PVE host cannot reach WireGuard peer through LXC container tunnel? Add a static route on the host and enable IP forwarding in the container.

NguyenSeptember 19, 20261 min read

Technical

Proxmox as provider: Traefik auto-discovery without an official provider

Get Traefik to discover Proxmox services with a cron job that pulls from the Proxmox API. No official provider needed—just a script and a config.

NguyenSeptember 18, 20262 min read

Technical

Fix Proxmox GPU Passthrough Black Screen on VM Start

Black screen after passing a GPU to a VM? Check VFIO binding, the GPU ROM, and display output in that order. Here's the diagnostic sequence.

NguyenSeptember 18, 20262 min read

Technical

veeam hardened repository: what it buys you that PBS prune settings do not

PBS prune and GC protect against disk-full, not against someone with root on the backup host. A Veeam hardened repository is a different threat model.

NguyenSeptember 17, 20266 min read

Technical

Jellyfin 10.11 performance issues: fix them on Proxmox LXC

Jellyfin 10.11 performance issues are usually the inotify watcher limits or a bad transcode path. Here's the exact fix I use on Proxmox LXC.

NguyenSeptember 17, 20261 min read

Technical

ZFS over iSCSI TrueNAS Scale Proxmox: targetcli setup that actually works

ZFS over iSCSI from Proxmox to TrueNAS SCALE fails because SCALE uses LIO, not istgt. Here's the targetcli config and Proxmox storage plugin settings that

NguyenSeptember 16, 20262 min read