lvm

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    Shared storage over Fiber channel

    Hi all, I am looking for a fast storage for HA cluster. Currently I use Ceph, but it is terribly slow (I have 3 nodes with enterprise class nvme drives. I read many articles about it and its performace. By my opinion the bottleneck is in network synchronization. So I am looking for another...
  2. bbgeek17

    [TUTORIAL] Understanding LVM Shared Storage In Proxmox

    Hi Everyone, There are numerous forum inquiries about integrating a legacy enterprise SAN with PVE, particularly from those transitioning from VMware. To help, we've put together a comprehensive guide that explains how LVM Shared Storage works with PVE, including its benefits, limitations, and...
  3. M

    Hardware RAID LVM Configuration Issues - Seeking Help

    On a Hardware RAID configured system, we are having a hard time creating LVM2 groups on the RAID controlled drives. Whenever the hardware undergoes a physical power cycle, any LVM2 groups created on these drives are lost and cannot be recovered. Commands like `pvscan`, `lvscan`, or `lgscan`...
  4. O

    ISCSI LVM and cluster

    Hi to all just want to write it down, because it took my lots of time.I am trying to create a cluster with iscsi disks and lvm to test the cluster capabilities. My environment is cascaded,i mean .I have a Hp server with 3tb of disk and lots of memory. I installed Proxmox as Operating system...
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    [SOLVED] LVM Thin-pool on new node

    Hi everyone, Merry Xmas! I hope someone can help with the following basic problem: I have just created my first cluster by adding a single new node. I would now like to set up the internal SSD in order to transfer some VMs over to it. However, it's not working like the master node. fdisk -l...
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    [SOLVED] Local-LVM status unknown on ZFS

    Hi community. I've just installed latest proxmox ve on a small server with 4 SSDs connected to the backplane. I chose ZFS RAID10 in the installation to have everything on these 4 SSDs. I updated, restarted etc and when I just wanted to deal with vms I realised that local-lvm has status unknown...
  7. S

    How to create local-lvm from root partition?

    I've followed this blog post https://blog.evoluso.com/proxmox-remove-lvm-local-data/. Basically, i wanted to wipe the local-lvm, however, i end up with resizing root partition. I've run the following code: 1. Remove /dev/pve/data lvremove /dev/pve/data 2. Resize root partition lvresize -l...
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    LVM autoextend not working, what am I doing wrong ?

    Hello ! I am running tests using VDO pools and LVM thin pools. I've added this to lvm.conf : then ran : systemctl restart lvm2-monitor Following this RHEL documentation ...
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    [SOLVED] Change the name of an LVM storage

    Hello I wanted to test a procedure to rename both the Volume Group, on which I created an LVM storage, and the storage itself. Specifically on an ISCSI LUN I created an LVM storage named "vg-iscsi" , then I created a VM (VM-move (200)) vgs VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree pve...
  10. G

    Problem with trim/discard on Ceph storage

    Hello, I have problems with various VMS that seems do not release unused space. Here is the VM Config: Here is the fstab: Here is the LVM config: Here is the Filesystem free disk space: I've also issued fstrim manually after poweroff/poweron the VM: But when I investigate du on...
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    lvm volume seemingly present after vm delete

    Hi! I would like to ask about one phenomena which does not excatly break anything but is at times unconvinient. I have encountered it several times so i dont think it is specific to my particular case. block device is connected over iscsi to multiple pve cluster nodes and on this block device...
  12. D

    [SOLVED] NVME Drive Disappeared from Host After Thinpool Creation

    I'm learning by doing, so apologies if I've missed some basic steps or information. I have a three node cluster made up of Lenovo ThinkCentres (M900 TFF) that I got from a friend after his work decommissioned them. They've been working great, but only came with 128GB SSD SATA drives, which...
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    New LVM Showing as Full

    Hi People, Im having a bit of a weird issue where I have created a striped Logical Volume using the CLI but when I add it to the storage.cfg or use pvesm add lvm <STORAGE_ID> --vgname <VGNAME> to add it to the cluster it shows up as full. Im sure I am doing somthing really silly but I can't...
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    [SOLVED] Can't Open BlockDev(Need Help!)

    Im getting Can't open blockdev in my dmesg and journalctl in the proxmox HOST. its tmeta and tdata dms that shows this. Both for my truenasISCSI lvm-thin and the local-lvm thin. why is this happening, how do i fix? I have normal access to both storages, everything works normally at higher...
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    dual-primary drbd storage connected to two-node-pve-cluster over iscsi

    Hi! I have run dual-primary drbd successfully with two node proxmox cluster, each pve node being also drbd node (and using local storage). And /dev/drbd0 block device is used as lvm pv device, lvm needs to be initialized at one node since block device content appears or rahter is same and both...
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    Activation of logical volume is prohibited while logical volume XXX_tmeta is active

    root@pve:~# pvesm status activating LV 'storage01-slow/storage01-slow' failed: Activation of logical volume storage01-slow/storage01-slow is prohibited while logical volume storage01-slow/storage01-slow_tmeta is active. Name Type Status Total Used...
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    How does using ZFS to mirror PVE (and nothing else) impact separate disks (for VM and container storage) that also use ZFS?

    I have some filesystem questions regarding PVE, ZFS and how they interact with VMs. The storage system I'm trying to achieve consists of 5 physical disks: Physical Disk Purpose RAID Disk 1 + Disk 2 PVE + mirror ZFS mirror Disk 3 + Disk 4 VMs and container storage a mix of striping and...
  18. R

    LSI SAS9200-8e Confirguration

    I have inherited a LSI SAS9200-8e 6Gb/s SAS PCIe x8 HBA in a Dell R710 server connected to a EMC KTN-STL3 JBOD with 15 1TB drives. I don't see the drives in Proxmox or in the Debian console. Can someone point me to a guide that explains setting up the server BIOS, the HBA's BIOS and/or...
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    Custom kernel doesn't boot on proxmox

    I have built a 6.10 kernel using clang (with .config from generic ubuntu) on Ubuntu 24.04. I am able to run it on Ubuntu but not on Proxmox. On Proxmox, I get following error: Alert! /dev/mapper/pve-root does not exist. Dropping to shell Running lvm pvscan returns nothin, and adding...
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    Recovering VM after converting it to a Template

    I have been following some posts, but those were meant for ZFS. I already changed the configuration file of the VM and set the variable template: 0 Renamed the LVM from base-101-disk-0 to vm-101-disk-0 Now I'm trying to change the attributes from Vri-a-tz-k to Vwi-aotz-- assuming those are the...