shared storage

  1. DerDanilo

    [SOLVED] Support Storage Type - Quobyte (Client)

    @proxmox Team @tom I directly opened a bugzill enhancement report to get this rolling as soon as possible. Should be relatively easy to implement and this could even be available within Q1 2019. https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2047 Thanks guys!
  2. R

    Networking Options

    Hello, I've seen this being asked, but I'm unclear on the actual answer. I want to know how Proxmox separates it's networks, if it does. Is all this done on the management interface: Backups, Shared Network Storage, Live Migrations? Is there anyway to assign different nics for each of these or...
  3. J

    [SOLVED] "Pull the plug" HA without downtime?

    I was wondering... The HA feature in proxmox ensures that a VM (or LXC) will start on another node in case a node goes down, but the machine will shutdown and will have to reboot on the next node. Would there be any way to ensure that the machine will instantly appear on the other node once its...
  4. T

    [SOLVED] shared backup storage

    I have a 5 node proxmox cluster with ceph storage running a mixture of lxc containers and qemu vm's. I have an extra server I want to configure as a backup storage and to mount extra partitions on the containers. (To have some extra storage for tar backups). This server is connected to the...
  5. K

    Question about choosing Proxmox (API + Shared storage)

    Hello. We are in the process of rebuilding our virtualization infrastructure to 4 servers and a SAN shared storage (iSCSI over 10Gbps) but we are not sure of what to use, we are hesitating between Hyper-V (Without SCCM) or Proxmox VE. We will have a mix of Windows and Linux virtual machines...
  6. S

    Shared Storage for a PVE Cluster

    We are proving a proposal to a client and would like to recommend the best option to have shared storage for their cluster(s). I have been looking through the forum during the past couple of days and found several threads on this topic. Unfortunately, I have not determined that the most...
  7. M

    IOPS saturation on Storage

    I have a HP P2000 G3 ISCSi shared storage atached to my proxmox cluster via LVM. When i move a vdisk from local lvm storage (local disk on the nodo) to the shared storage i have an IOPS saturation on it. I tried to limit the interface bandwith via the Datacenter.cfg file but the problem still...
  8. G

    Share files between LXC containers

    Hi everyone, Short question: What is the best way to share files between several LXC containers? I have a Proxmox 4 cluster and a Proxmox5 (ZFS storage) cluster. In both of them, I would like to create a shared filesystem (NFS, ZFS or whatever...) and mount it into several LXC containers in...
  9. J

    Poll: Ceph vs NAS (NFS) vs ZFS over iSCSI for VM Storage

    Question for the hive mind. I have 6x 960GB Samsung SSD (853t & pm963) drives 'left over' from an upgrade to bigger drives, and wish to use them for shared storage of fairly low I/O virtual machines. 1) All 6 Drives on NFS share from a FreeNAS (or similar dedicated server) with 96GB RAM + 2x...
  10. B

    DAS Shared Storage mit Snapshots

    Hallo zusammen, ich bin vor kurzem günstig an 2 HP Server + eine MSA mit FC für mein Home Lab gekommen. Jetzt versuche ich mich ein bisschen ausserhalb meiner gewohnten ESX Welt fortzubilden und probiere mich gerade mit Proxmox. Soweit sieht das alles sehr vielversprechend aus, aber an einer...
  11. M

    Live migration LXC

    Hello, I am serving a videoconference application and I want to compare the performance between VMs and LXC, specially in case of migrating the server. For VMs, I have an NFS server where I store the disk of the VM hosting the server. Now, I wonder how to set up the configuration of LXC to...
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    Configuring shared storage

    I have already a cluster of 3 nodes and I would like to enable proper VM Live migration, i.e. unnoticeable downtime. Right now I have my VMs using local-lvm (LVM-thin) and therefore live migration is not allowed (you can use --with-local-disks but there's noticeable downtime). Could anyone...
  13. L

    iSCSI Shared Storage Resize whilst system still live

    Morning, I have successfully resize shared storage before on Proxmox BEFORE my cluster went to host many production servers. I need to expand my shared storage again and run pvresize, is this safe to do whilst VM's are still running? If not, could I live migrate all VMs to one host, resize...
  14. T

    any SIMPLE way to share files between VMs please?

    any easy/simple way to make sharefolder on top of ZFS? I need to share drivers and programs, not .iso's between VMs HomeLab Setup I have now: Proxmox 4.6, ZFS on both 250 GB SSD w Proxmox and 2TB HDD to store VMs I use mostly Win & OSX VMs, use a bit Linux as well, I do not mind install a VM...
  15. R

    PVE 5 HA cluster with iSCSI multipath shared storage

    Hi, Creating an environment here is the details. HP blade servers 3 node HA cluster SAN iSCSI multipath shared storage 2 10gb NIC making them bond my question is is it enough to create cluster bond (2 10gb NIC) or is there any recommendations to avoid bottleneck/latency issues. Thanks
  16. T

    Shared storage and DAS

    Dear sirs, We will appreciate your assitance. We wand to reach the goal to build HA based on proxmox, including ability to make LiveMigration, we own next storage system - DAS (direct attach storage).Before writing the letter, carefully reviewed the articles and messages on the forum and...
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    Proxmox cluster with jbod

    Hi good people. We have a bunch of hardware (a little old) - 4x servers with dual xeon E5 2667-V3, 2 LSI SAS 6160 switches, and one Supermicro JBOD SC837 (12x SSD 2TB, 18x HDD 8TB). Each server has 40 Gbps ethernet, and we have 2x mellanox 40Gbps switches. Nice hardware. Old sysadmin planned to...
  18. M

    Cluster mit angehängtem SAN

    Kurze Info zu meiner Umgebung vorab. Ich nutze aktuell keine HA-Features für die auf den Knoten laufenden VMs. Meine Zielsetzung war lediglich ein gemeinsames Volume auf einem vorhandenen SAN zu nutzen, wobei die Migration (online und offline) manuell durchgeführt werden sollte. Mit den...
  19. T

    Proxmox cluster on a shared SAN storage

    Hi everyone, I am currently using a 4 node Proxmox 3.4 cluster on a NFS storage, mainly used for web applications. I would like to expand the cluster and above all use it on a SAN storage. The problem is that I do not find a lot of info (manuals, books, forum, etc.) on how to develop a SAN...
  20. U

    Newbie, Shared storage, HA, and glusterfs.

    Hi guys! I'm new to proxmox and the whole virtualization world and i need a bit of help and clarification on some stuff. I've currently installed proxmox on one of my nodes, installed glusterfs, mounted it, and got one VM up and running, total took me about 18 hours xD Anyways, i've added my...

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