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    Thin provisioning shareable volume

    Hi team, I am creating a Proxmox cluster, and the storage target is a Pure Storage array (although most likely for this question is rather irrelevant). I created two volumes at this point and presented them to one Proxmox host (Virtual Environment 8.3.4). I created a LVM with the first volume...
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    Advise configuring cluster w/o external NAS

    I have 3 HPE Proliant DL360 Gen10 servers that I would like to configure as a 3 node Proxmox cluster. Each node has 6 x 2TB data drives, for a total of 12TB per node + 2 system drives in mirror. Most configurations I have seen relay on an external NAS as the shared storage space. I am specially...
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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] NFS mouning on LXC container. Permission denied

    I have been trying to mount NFS shares on LXCs for the past three days and I couldn't get it to work. I have seen guides on CIFS/SMB shares but nothing on NFS. I have tried mounting using the GUI but I kept get permission denied error. I have also followed TheHellSite's guide but I couldn't get...
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    Share persistent host-directory to VM

    Hi all! I'm new to Proxmox and I try to add a directory from the host (e. g. a directory on the system drive) as shared directory to the (Debian) VM. I want to use this as persistens config directory for Docker containers running inside the VM. If the VM crashes or I need to relaunch a new one...
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    Optimize computer for gaming and developpment

    Hallo, I were introduced to proxmox by a friend and I like it alot but I am kinda of noob. I am a software developper that likes AI and games and to create things and I also like gaming so my goals come from that. I like that I can make my computer into several VMs and CT so I can develop...
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    Shared folder from proxmox host to VM and CT

    I'm new to proxmox, I created a ZFS drive which is accesible on Proxmox at /Storage I wanted to make it accesible do the VM while remain accesible to the host and other CTs, I managed once, but I had to remove the VM and start over since I can't figure out how... anyway I managed to do the same...
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    Backup nur von einzelnen Ordnern auf Festplatte

    Hallo zusammen, ich habe mir meine erste Proxmox Maschiene in einem 2HE Server für die Schule / IHK Prüfung/Projekt aufgesetzt. Das System läuft auf einer 500GB m2 SSD, eine 6TB Platte dient als Massenspeicher. Stand jetzt habe ich zwei aktive VMs. "PiHole" und -"Mediaserver". In der VM...
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    NFS Backup share disconnecting during backup operation

    I have 5 NFS shares coming from my Unraid server into my Proxmox cluster of 4 nodes (named Prox-1 through 4 respectively). These shares are: AppData Archives Backups ISOs VM-Datastore They connect fine, but the Backups share will error out partway through a backup operation, and the Archives...
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    How to have shared storage between containers/VMs?

    Is there a way to mount a directory that lives on a disk on the proxmox host and into a container or VM? What I mean is that I have a directory /mnt/tank/whatever on the proxmox host (ZFS dataset), and I'd like that directory to be accessible at /whatever from within a container or a VM on the...
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    Newbie question on ZFS - using multiple devices as a single logical unit

    I have three brand new physical storage devices with different speeds: a) 7000 MB/s SSD with 512 GB b) 2400 MB/s SSD with 1 TB c) 190 MB/s HDD with 2 TB My initial plan was to use: (a) for the operational system and most used programs, (b) for most of my data, and less used programs, and (c)...
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    Share smb with hosts

    I created a SMB/CIFS share from my NAS. In the Client VM - CT Ubuntu how to add access to this mount point. It seems all I would need to do is this but in the VM I go to that directory and it is empty. If this is not the way then how would I go about doing this? I want to share this mount...
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    Sharing ZFS with VM and CT

    Hi, I've found a few things about sharing storage with VM and CT, but I haven't found the answer or I may not understand enough. I currently have 1x SSD with Proxmox, VM and CT on the server. Furthermore, 2x HDD on which I created ZFS. In Proxmox, ZFS is attached to point dataA. As VM and CT I...
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    [SOLVED] Sync issue between mount and OMV shares

    I'm having some sync issues. Currently I'm mounting my HDD drives (ntfs) in my node with the command mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sde2 /mnt/disk1 which works fine and everything mounts. I also have a OpenMediaVault VM running which shares these drives (or folders) on my network so I can access them on...
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    How to share storage between VMs and proxmox?

    Hi, I have attached a large HDD over USB3.0 to my Proxmox node. I use it to store backups of VMs and containers. However, I also would like to run many media-heavy Docker containers in a VM (Plex, family photos, Nextcloud, etc) and would have to store the media on that said HDD. What is the...
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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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    Sharing data between LXC, virtuals and other station in LAN

    I am a novice user of Proxmox, but at the same time delighted with it :-) I want to use Proxmox at home, for a home server, for my own use and that of a few friends. I have a question about good practice. I would like to have some virtuals and LXC in it. But I would also like some of these...
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    Asking for suggestion: How to access ZFS dataset from VM

    Hi, I am looking for a way to share my ZFS dataset (= DS) with a VM. Options that I am considering: (1) export DS to VM via NFS: great for private network, not so great if the VM is a public host (2) create a disk on ZVOL and attach it to the VM: easiest option, but I must allocate the...
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    [SOLVED] SMB Share in LXC Container: Permission denied on write

    Hi there, I've got an SMB share from my NAS server for my data. My Jellyfin instance (hosted via docker inside LXC) should have read-/write-access to this SMB share. The problem is: I always get permission denied issues in my LXC container. The Proxmox host can write inside the share, but not...
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    Share a virtual drive amongst multiple VMs?

    I'd like to create a virtual hard drive and mount it to multiple VMs, some with read-only access. I do not want to share anything with the host and do not want to use networking to accomplish this. Is this something that's possible? Thanks.