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NVMe Passthrough Performance on Proxmox: Benchmarks and Trade-offs
NVMe passthrough performance on Proxmox: I benchmarked virtio-blk vs PCIe passthrough. Passthrough wins on latency but loses flexibility.
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Swappiness 1 Small RAM VM Proxmox: Downsides and OOM Risk
Setting swappiness=1 on a small RAM VM in Proxmox cuts swap I/O but can trigger surprise OOM kills. Here's what I measured and when it's worth it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Got inotify poll request in wrong process – disabling inotify: fix it on Proxmox
Got inotify poll request in wrong process - disabling inotify on Proxmox means a process is watching files with inotify but isn't getting the events.