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    The placement of ISO, or any other files, i.e. QCOW cloud images, requires File Storage. It can be an NFS, CIFS, or an OCFS2 managed LUN. You can't place files on raw storage directly. Blockbridge : Ultra low latency all-NVME shared storage...
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    Hi @domme0506 , welcome to the forum. Instead of doing pass-through, create a dedicated Portal/Target on your SAN and directly connect to the Target/LUN inside the VM. If you are looking for stable, supported production installation you should...
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    bbgeek17 replied to the thread compellent storage - iscsi.
    Hi @KeyzerSuze , Yes, you can do what you described. It is not an exact match to VMware way, but close enough. Here is a guide that may be helpful: https://kb.blockbridge.com/technote/proxmox-lvm-shared-storage/ Cheers Blockbridge : Ultra low...
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    Hi @dsintayehu , welcome to the forum. The CLVM is not a supported or tested method of implementing shared storage in PVE. PVE takes on the responsibility of the lock coordinator in its environment and that may very well interfere in CLVM. You...
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    Hi @harikrishna075, The first thing to clarify - there’s no single “best” way to do something in IT. It all depends on your goals, constraints, tolerance for risk, and budget. Here are the general approaches you can take: a) Use your existing...
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    Hi @wne , welcome to the forum. To close the loop on your final question: There are no plans to support LVM Thin for shared storage infrastructure. Cheers Blockbridge : Ultra low latency all-NVME shared storage for Proxmox -...
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    Hi @Gotxo , thank you for adding your report to the mix. Have you had a chance to read through prior conversation in this and other, similar, threads? The output you provided confirms that PVE web server (pveproxy) is functioning. Blockbridge...
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    This may be related and of interest https://lists.proxmox.com/pipermail/pve-devel/2025-October/075729.html Blockbridge : Ultra low latency all-NVME shared storage for Proxmox - https://www.blockbridge.com/proxmox
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    bbgeek17 updated their status.
    https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/inside-proxmox-ve-9-san-snapshot-support.169675/
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    bbgeek17 reacted to uclemmer's post in the thread ISCSI Keeps Trying Unused Portals with Like Like.
    Hello @bbgeek17. Thanks for the warm welcome and quick response. I do now believe it is a problem with the configuration on my Dell ME4024. Even though our volume is only mapped to port 3, running a discovery command on the PVE host shows all...
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    Here are the 3 major underlying projects that accept your donations: https://www.qemu.org/donations/ https://www.debian.org/donations https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-donations-funding/29 The mothership: https://my.fsf.org/donate/...
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    bbgeek17 replied to the thread Multi-tenant.
    Hi @Jareewan , welcome to the forum. PVE supports creating users with isolated management privilidges: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pveum.html Blockbridge : Ultra low latency all-NVME shared storage for Proxmox -...
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    Thank you for trying this command. It indicates that PVE Web interface is functioning/replying. Continue with your troubleshooting as previously described and report your observations TIP: when copy/pasting a large amount of text - use SPOILER...
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    Hi @glaeken2, Sorry to hear you're running into issues. I wanted to clarify the difference between writemostly and write-behind, as they're often confused: writemostly only affects read balancing. It tells the RAID layer: "avoid reading from...
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    Please review the discussion above, perform the steps mentioned already and report back if they do not help. In your report please include full outputs of the commands you ran as text encoded with CODE or SPOILER tags Blockbridge : Ultra low...
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    That indicates that you should scope your troubleshooting to your switch, rather than network nodes. Cheers Blockbridge : Ultra low latency all-NVME shared storage for Proxmox - https://www.blockbridge.com/proxmox
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    Hi @peter_zh , welcome to the forum. You’re correct that your report doesn’t match anything posted here recently. It seems unique, which strongly suggests it’s specific to your environment. The troubleshooting steps I’d recommend are: From the...
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    Hello @licandro, welcome to the forum. @hatemyway has mentioned at least 2 issues. I believe they were addressed earlier in the thread. Do you have a question, or are you just cheering @hatemyway up in that he is not alone in his way...
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    bbgeek17 replied to the thread API List VMs.
    One can extract all preliminary data from /cluster/resources (all vms, their IDs and parent nodes). With that information, one would then loop through each NODE/VM to get its configuration. This can be done against single API end-point...
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    Hi @uclemmer , welcome to the forum. You are not missing anything. The flow of the iSCSI protocol is that the Target (ME) provides a packet that contains all Portals that it wants to advertise. The Initiator (PVE) can/will attempt to login to...