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    Is it possible: PVE + shared storage + HA + replication to remote site?

    All of my previous experience of PVE setups related to stand-alone hosts, and PVE is perfect for that. Now we want to connect shared SAN storage to several PVE hosts to have HA available. SAN (we rent it) seems to be FC connected. At the same time we want to have the same VMs copied...
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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...
  5. 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...
  12. 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...