What is Latency?
What is Latency? KB ID 0001874 What is Latency? I hear people use the word ‘Latency’ a lot, mostly without ever really understanding what it is, unlike its close relations bandwidth and thoughput* which are measurments of data, latency is a measurment of TIME, and in a lot scenarios is variable depending on what’s happening. *Note: Too low bandwidth and thoughput can increase latency. There will always be latency,...
Proxmox Update Package Database Error
Update Package Database KB ID 0001873 Problem More of an annoyance than a problem to be honest, but every 24 hours I get the following errors logged against every host in my Proxmox cluster. Description ‘Update Package Database’ If you drill down into that error, you will see. TASK ERROR: command ‘apt-get update’ failed: exit code 100 Solution : Update Package Database This happens because (by default) the...
Proxmox HA Cluster
Proxmox HA Cluster KB ID 0001872 Problem Proxmox HA Cluster: As the name implies this allows the cluster to ‘restart’ failed virtual machines on another host in the cluster in the event of a host failure. Unlike VMware (that has a vCenter appliance to do this) in Proxmox it can be configured from any host. Which may seem like an advantage – but the GUI can get a little ‘clunky’ whilst configuring HA....
Proxmox Windows Drive Missing
Proxmox Windows Drive Missing KB ID 0001871 Problem When attempting to deploy a Windows VM, in this case Server 2022, you do not see the local storage. Solution I’ve been in this situation a hundred times in the past, (usually on physical servers). The problem is simply Windows does not have the driver for the storage controller. There two ways you can approach the problem, Option 1: Proxmox Windows Drive Missing The...