VM Migration Between Nodes (LVM Thin + Linked Clones)

znt

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I use proxmox in a homelab setting and have been running into storage issues on a few nodes with small SSDs. I wanted to upgrade the storage. My plan was to:

1. Migrate the VMs to other nodes.
2. Remove the node, whose storage I'm upgrading.
3. Upgrade the storage and re-install proxmox.
4. Rejoin the cluster.
5. Migrate the VMs back.

Is there an easier method to this? I did search the board and documentation for migrating VMs, when they were instantiated as "linked clones" on LVM thinpools. I can't even actually identify anything that indicates they are in fact linked clones (but do recall I configured them that way, given I was tight on storage space).

This post seems to indicate that's normal:

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/h...ed-by-another-vm-lxc-before-remove-it.115562/
 

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