local storage

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    What is taking up space on Local?

    I recently installed Proxmox on a single node for a home lab running on an Intel NUC7. I am impressed by how well things are working and am really happy to have migrated from ESXi 5.5 to Proxmox. I am still learning a lot and have become a frequent visitor of this forum for information. One...
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    VM live migration via the GUI (Local storage)

    After a few google searches, I found that live migration while on local storage is possible using the CLI. I was unable to do it using the GUI though. Is there some reason the GUI doesn't support shared nothing live migrations? Or have I missed a checkbox someplace?
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    Successful but not easy live migration story

    Hello, I have a failing hard drive on one of our nodes. So I had to migrate my running VMs to another node. I succeeded but it was not as easy as I thought. A little summary of the setup of that server. Proxmox 5.1 is installed on an hard drive. The pve volume group is on that drive. I have...
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    Offline migration fails

    Offline migration fails for me when I try to move from a newer proxmox 4 install that has been upgraded to 5.1, to a older proxmox 5.1 install that started with proxmox 3. The storage involved is not marked shared, but the older server has local storage configured as true plain local storage...
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    Extend lvm storage

    I installed proxmox since 2 months. I can install my VM easily. But I have a problem with the "local" storage size. By default, proxmox creates two storages => local and local-lvm. All of my VMs are on local and nothing is on local-lvm but the local size is 100GB. The size available on...
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    how to make lvm-thin local storage shared?

    we have three nodes in a cluster all are using nfs shared storage but for io intense vms we use local ssd mirror raids as a faster storage. but what to do if i want to migrate a vm from one local ssd lvm-thin storage to another node without having to move the storage to the nfs before this? is...
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    Volume not showing up

    I have a cluster setup with two server. On the second server I setup only the root / swap storage is showing up in the web UI: But from the command line the box sees the data partition. lvscan ACTIVE '/dev/pve/swap' [8.00 GiB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/pve/root' [96.00...
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    Local Storage on Multiple Machines

    I have a two machine cluster. Machine 1 = Master, is a Dell 2950 iii with all the storage and drives. Machine 2 = Second, is a small Intel core i5 rig for a manual backup and testing. They are joined to the same cluster and I can see both from the web interface. Most of the storage is mounted...