Notes to Self

Alex Sokolsky's Notes on Computers and Programming

ProxMox HOWTO

Sources

Update repositories

You will get an error during the update:

Err:4 https://enterprise.proxmox.com/debian/pve buster InRelease
  401  Unauthorized [IP: 144.217.225.162 443]

It comes from /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-enterprise.list:

root@pve02:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# cat pve-enterprise.list
deb https://enterprise.proxmox.com/debian/pve buster pve-enterprise

You can disable it in the GUI and add there ‘No Subscription’ option. Alternatively, change it to (mind version specific buser below):

root@pve02:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# cat pve-enterprise.list
# deb https://enterprise.proxmox.com/debian/pve buster pve-enterprise

And then:

root@pve02:/etc/apt# cat sources.list
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian buster main contrib

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib

# security updates
deb http://security.debian.org buster/updates main contrib

# PVE pve-no-subscription repository provided by proxmox.com,
# NOT recommended for production use
deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve buster pve-no-subscription

Install useful tools

# apt install ifupdown2 silversearcher-ag emacs-nox htop lm-sensors hddtemp nvme-cli

Configure lm-sensors

# sensors-detect

And finally:

# watch -n 1 sensors

or just

root@pve02:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# sensors
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Package id 0:  +36.0°C  (high = +94.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 0:        +35.0°C  (high = +94.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 1:        +35.0°C  (high = +94.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 2:        +36.0°C  (high = +94.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 3:        +34.0°C  (high = +94.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 4:        +32.0°C  (high = +94.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 5:        +32.0°C  (high = +94.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)

acpitz-acpi-0
Adapter: ACPI interface
temp1:        +27.8°C  (crit = +119.0°C)

pch_cannonlake-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1:        +44.0°C

PCI Pass Through Config

See pcie-passthrough.md.

Add the server to Datacenter / Cluster

Make sure the host has:

Data Center Storage

Add connection to the NFS server: Datacenter\Storage Add NFS

Schedule Backups

Datacenter\Backup, Add

Cron

/etc/cron.daily

smart

#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/smartctl -t long /dev/sda
/usr/sbin/smartctl -t long /dev/sdb

/etc/cron.weekly

fstrim

#!/bin/sh
# trim all the mounted file systems which support it
/usr/sbin/fstrim --all || true

systemps script

#!/bin/sh
# relies on sensors, nvme, hddtemp

# cleanup
rm -f /tmp/temps_????????_??????

now=$(date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")
TMPFILE="/tmp/temps_$now"
(
    #echo "To: your email address"
    subject="`hostname` temperatures `date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'`"
    #echo "Subject: $subject"
    #echo " "
    echo $subject
    echo "$(uname -nsrm), $(uptime -p)"
    cat /proc/loadavg | awk '{ print "System load:",$1,$2,$3 }'

    # this does not work if CPU is virtualized
    temp=$(sensors|grep Package|awk '{print $4}')
    freqs=$(grep "cpu MHz" /proc/cpuinfo|awk -F'[\.| ]' '{print $3}'|paste -sd ' ')
    echo "CPU: $temp, $freqs MHz"

    temp=$(nvme smart-log /dev/nvme0|grep temperature|awk '{print $3}')
    echo "NVME: $temp°C"

    echo 'HDDs:'
    HDDS="/dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde"
    for disk in $HDDS
    do
        if [ -b $disk ]; then
            hddtemp ${disk}
        fi
    done

) > $TMPFILE

#sendmail -t < $TMPFILE
cat $TMPFILE

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