Installation Goof-Up

[E-Rod]

Good day to all.

I'm an IT manager who is extremely interested in trying out Proxmox before I deploy it in my business, and I'm spinning it up for the first time, and I have made a significant goof up in that I initially installed Proxmox on my RAID array of a Dell PowerEdge instead of the SSDs on my boss card. I re-installed Proxmox on the BOSS card, and now I have a giant LVM on my RAID rendering me unable to create VMs because I've used it all up. Is there a way to remove this LVM and get my array back without having to go into the controller, take it apart and reconfigure and re-initialize it? Thank you in advance, and please pardon my ignorance.

 

[Dunuin]

Why you don't use that LVM for your VMs? By default Proxmox should have setup most of that LVM to be a storage for VM virtual disks and container filesystems.

 

[E-Rod]

Well, my original vision was to have Proxmox running on the BOSS card and to use the RAID to store my VMs. I've got Proxmox running on the BOSS card now, and I assumed that the install on the RAID LVM would preclude me from running VMs created from the BOSS card install.

I'm guessing I'm incorrectly assuming that's the case? Or am I approaching the setup all wrong to begin with?

I'm quite new with virtualization, and I'm sure it's showing right about now. Thank you for your input.

 

[lvanni]

Hi @E-Rod, have you installed (and used) with success PVE on DELL BOSS card? I have similar vision too.