disk configuration

Hello, I am running a Proxmox VE server with pre-made Templates at minimal disk sizes. I have scripts that create VMs by cloning a template and extending its disk. The problem is that the extended space is not allocated to any mount point. For example, the following template has initially a...

Hi All, I am new to Proxmox and need some help with how to attach or add all my usb external storage, in my case I use "ORICO-3559C3" with 5-bays HDD drive. My goal is to provide ZFS storage to the VMs in Proxmox (with TrueNAS-Scale), I have VM 100 with TrueNAS Scale 22.12 on My Baremetal...

Hello Guys, For some time now I have a VM (running Truenas Scale) that keeps giving an IO error, because I accidentally made a VM Disk larger than the actual disk on which it is located with the resize tool. I have tried to change to size by changing the config of the VM but this did not work...

Hi, I'm trying to mount ZFS pool, called it 'giant' (consists of 3x 12TB hdd) with the existing VM which runs OpenMediaVault, can't assign whole available space to the hard drive. Hardware Hingle mobo, standalone proxmox installation on nvme which means I have 1 proxmox node i my datacenter...

Just noticed that I accidentally created one of my containers with its storage on my backup nfs mount. I tried moving the disk storage in the gui and got this error: Formatting '/var/lib/vz/images/101/vm-101-disk-0.raw', fmt=raw size=53687091200 preallocation=off Creating filesystem with...

Managing a Proxmox cluster in the datacenter with multiple nodes and multiple drives (Ceph OSD and ZFS pools) per node, I am missing an easy way to locate the drive in the enclosure. Smart data or Ceph OSD status visualized in a simple row/column fashion. Is is possible to add a simple...

My pve-root directory is out of space. I am using Proxmox Virtual Environment 6.4-13 (no license/subscription). I have tried to show my system settings and situation to save posts. Also, I realize this is one thread and I am asking multiple questions in one thread. My reasoning is these...

I have set up a Datacenter Cluster with two nodes and one Backup Server with a reverse proxy and several webservers, each on its own VM. Each node is running on a re-purposed embedded firewall device with only space for a single 512G drive (a M.2 SSD). The Proxmox Backup Server is running on a...

I have a dedicated server from ovh install proxmox I want to configure the disk I have a 2x disk 960GB ssd nvme and I want all the space and I want help in configuring the hard disk

Hi there! I'm on Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.1-12. I've set up a VE with Windows 11 and Blue Iris which is a camera surveillance software (requires Windows). The surveillance footage needs to be stored somewhere and I've attached a 3 TB physical disk solely for this storage. That is, I have...

HI all, I have a four node PVE cluster, single 500GB disk on each node. All nodes are configured with Ceph on lvm. The lvm is taking most of the disk, with only about 50GB left for local storage. I want to move a couple of VM disks from ceph to local. How can I shrink the Ceph OSD, then...

Hello, I'm going to install a new fresh Proxmox server for my homelab and I'd like to ask you suggestions to configure it in a proper way (I've already a Proxmox server I'd like to reconfigure from scratch). HW: CPU Intel Core i5 4460 (4c/4t) RAM 16GB 8x SATA3 ports (2 on the mobo and 4 on a...

On older servers when the second hard disk of the VIRTUAL machine is a PV physical volume.When qEMu-img is converted into a qcow2 hard disk file and imported to a new server through qm importDisk, the server identifies the hard disk as a new PV physical volume.However, this results in a...

There are few active and few unactive VMs. I increased disk size of one active VM. My hard disk is about 1TB but total size of all VMs is bigger than 1TB. Total size of all active VMs is less than 1TB. I don't think it is good. But how it could happen? What will be with data on all VMs?

I want to add another disk to my pve installation in order to use it as backup. The disk is installed and can be found as /dev/sda. I created a partition sda1 covering the whole disk. I can see the new disk under disks. On operating system level I have not mounted the disk. But I cannot use it...

I'm running an HP ProLiant DL380 G9 with fully updated firmware and PVE 7, and for some reason, no matter what settings I use, I get a very high disk sec/transfer, which is an indicator of disk latency. The guest, Windows Server 2019, took half an hour to install in Proxmox, and took ages to...

Hi there, im running into problems with my proxmox setup. I'm pretty new to proxmox and was not able to find a solution for this problem. Proxmox is running on a 512 GB NVMe SSD and there should be lots of space left on the drive, but proxmox tells me I'm at 97% usage. Did I miss to configure...

Hello together, I have a dedicated server with 64gib of RAM and following disks: 500gib ssd 2x 2tib HDDs no raid controller i am planning one vm with a Nextcloud installation, one Apache vm and a Game Server vm on my proxmox installation. my question is, how I should configure my disk...