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    Use FC storage in PVE cluster

    I used to use standalone PVE hosts, with local attached disks. Nice and tiny setups :) Now I have a chance to set up PVE cluster with shared storage. It involves some like 2 groups each consists of "6 hosts and 1 SAN". All hardware to be rented so we can make some adjustments at this point...
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    Servers + storage with SAN HP MSA2012fc

    Hi all. I am in a school and recently I recived some hardware HP (1 blade C3000 + storage HP MSA 2012fc). I am studying to set blade with Proxmox and MSA as storage in backend via HBA-FC . Question: what is best setting for storage to use for VM, ISO files, backup, etc...? I tested the...
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    iscsi over zfs + ovios linux

    Hello everyone, I'm trying to use ovios linux for my tests as a network storage. There was a connection problem. Generated a key and sent it to san. I am trying to add a disk to the virtual machine and I get the error: No configuration found. Install iet on 192.168.1.169 at...
  4. aasami

    [SOLVED] How to initizlize remote iSCSI LUN device with multipath?

    I have exported an iSCSI LUN with multipath to a PBS server in the SAN. How should I initialize this remote disk? It doesn't show up in drive list. # lsscsi [1:0:0:0] cd/dvd QEMU QEMU DVD-ROM 2.5+ /dev/sr0 [2:0:0:0] disk QEMU QEMU HARDDISK 2.5+ /dev/sda [3:0:0:0]...
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    Very bad iSCSI performance despite no config change

    Hello! I have a small cluster with my VMs living on LVM over iSCSI on a hp msa2050 SAN. I built it back in January and it was nice and quick - didn't even bother with multipath or any tuning because even with 10+ VMs running, it was fast enough. I left it running, doing nothing, until this...
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    FC-SAN Einrichtung

    Hallo, gibt es irgend wo eine Anleitung wie ich eine LUN in Proxmox einrichte geht das per GUI oder nur per CLI ? Hat jemand das schon mal gemacht ? Aktuell betreibe ich 5 Nodes in einem Cluster und würde gerne das vorhandene FC SAN nutzen. grüße mmo
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    Witch 40G Card for a Omnios San Storage Setup ?

    Hello, I'd like to install a test cluster with shared iSCSI storage / SAN. I read that the recommended solution is to use it as storage Omnios/Comstar. Can anyone recommend an Omios compatible 40G QSFP+ network card? ( tested ) I'm reading Illumos compatibility list, but is not so reliable, i...
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    The Best Solution to build a Redundant SAN

    Hello, What do you recommend for a ZFS redundant two-node SAN? I Will use ISCSI to connect it to proxmox. My Storage configuration should support from 80 to 160 Tb of storage space. Thanks!
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    LVM Partition's emty using iSCSI

    Hi Everyone, I have a serious problem, we installed a SAN for 3 nodes FUJITSU 2540 and 1 Stocking Harbor, I created 2 LVMs partitions on Stocking (SAN_VM for VMs and SAN_BACKUP for BACKUP), all Disks of VMs are stored on SAN_VM. today, after a power failure, I restarted the elements of our SAN...
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    Backup from LVM to any where is very Slow

    Hello everybody, we have set up a cluster with 2 nodes, both are connected to our SAN via iSCSI. On the SAN a LUN was created which we mounted with multipath to the servers. The storage was then integrated as LVM and we installed some VMs on it. Now I wanted to test the backup. So I tried to...
  11. aasami

    [SOLVED] WARNING: PV 0tO1MK-jzPE-WKj4-RBi6-Ev9t-4Yvf-jXgNGF on /dev/sde was already found on /dev/mapper/san3

    Hi, I have a PVE cluster where all nodes are connected to several SANs using multipath. However one PV in LVM complains, that it is using one of the paths instead of multipath device: [node5@15:35 ~]# pvdisplay WARNING: PV 0tO1MK-jzPE-WKj4-RBi6-Ev9t-4Yvf-jXgNGF on /dev/sde was already found on...
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    HA Cluster for LXC Storage Selection

    Good Morning, We would like to create following setup: - HA Cluster with 2 or 3 proxmox nodes. Later there should be around 50 LXC Containers running on top of it - This Cluster will only be used for LXC Container. So there are no requirements for VM usage - Required are all Features...
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    ZFS over iSCSI storage

    Hello, what is now the best solution to have a redundant ZFS Storage over ISCSI ? Thanks!
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    Dell SAN specific settings

    I have a Dell MD38xxi SAN which is being used by a cluster of 3 proxmox servers to share storage & provide luns direct to some VM's. Had a few problems recently when adding a fourth proxmox host, so had to completely re-examine my SAN configuration in order to get things fixed. All working...
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    Dell m1000 with m600 blades

    Hi Anybody has any experience on the m1000 dell chassis with a few m600 blades that i want to set up with proxmox. It's all connected to a SAN with each blade has locally 2x73gb sas disks. How would best practice be to set up and to easy scale up later with more blades? Thanks
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    [SOLVED] Migrate VM from local HDD to SAN storage ?

    Hi all, I'm wondering if it is possible to move/transfert a VM disk from local HDD to a SAN LVM over ISCSI storage without reinstalling VM from scratch.. I'm aware that in the first place i will need to convert my disk image from qcow2 to raw before attempting to import it in SAN storage. Is...
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    iSCSI help required

    using san storage with iscsi multipath, connected 3 storage drives after removing one volume, i am continuously receiving following error.. restarted multipath services but still same error. i think it should resolve after restarting iscsi service or rebooting host server, but i need a solution...
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    Best OS for Iscsi ZFS SAN

    Hello, witch OS is better to setup a dedicated iSCSI ZFS SAN with HA ? Thanks!
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    3 node Cluster mit zentralem Storage

    Guten Tag, ich betreibe bisher einen 3 Node proxmox 3.4 Cluster mit zentralem SAN Storage über iscsi/multipathing und lvm. funktioniert seit Jahren super stabil, aber leider ohne snapshots. Da bei uns nun die Aktualisierung auf Version 5 ansteht, versuche ich eine Lösung zu finden wie ich die...
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    How to configure Promox to use a SAN?

    Hi. We have 2 servers running in proxmox cluster. We also have 2 San Switches and 2 SAN's. We want to access the our san drives from Proxmox, to have our Virtual machines on the san. We are not sure how to configure it in proxmox? We have 3 lun's that on our san. Our setup is: 2 x hp proliant...