storage

Coming from the VMware world, and deploying Proxmox 9.1.1 for the first time. Looking for the correct NAS setup to support the following shared iSCSI attached storage across all nodes Deploy Thin disk VMs perform snapshots live migrations / move disk (vmotion / storage vmotion) HA In VMware I...

I have a Proxmox VE 9.1 production environment with 2 nodes and 1 qdevice (for quorum) using shared NFS storage. During snapshot or backup operations, VMs (especially Windows) become completely unresponsive: VM freezes completely Loses network connectivity (no ping) Console is frozen VM...

I want to connect my PVE datacenter to an external Ceph storage. On a pool on the external Ceph cluster, I created a namespace. Let's say my pool is called `testpool`, my namespace is called `testspace` and my user is called `testuser`. So what i did on my Ceph cluster is rbd namespace create...

hello proxmox community! I am in need of some advice pertaining to pve, storage configurations and what is possible natively to proxmox without editing the base installation. I have already looked on https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage#_storage_configuration and was unable to find, or perhaps...

I attached an iSCSI Target to my node Created LVM from it They are shared between my 3 Proxmox nodes I cloned a VM from NFS to this LVM over iSCSI It took qcow2 as the format. I tried some API GET queries to fetch the disk info The VM is on n1 curl -k -H 'Authorization: PVEAPIToken=<token>'...

Hi team, I’m running a 4-node Proxmox cluster (version 9.1.6) connected to a Pure Storage SAN over FC (32Gb, dual port) using multipath. On the SAN side, volumes are configured with thin provisioning and data reduction. I present LUNs to all nodes and configure them as shared LVM storage in...

Hello Expert, Does proxmox support having a common datastore storage from FC SAN in all the hosts? I see in feature list: https://www.proxmox.com/en/products/proxmox-virtual-environment/features#nav-mod-scrollspy435-data6 FC storage is not mentioned. Regards. Banik

Hey there! I currently have some LXC containers that reside on a local disk, but have a hookscript residing on an external CIFS/SMB mount (managed through proxmox). Everything works fine, except than when the node goes through a reboot the containers that depend on that script fail to start...

We are looking for NetApp ONTAP Deploy support. NetApp currently doesn't support Proxmox due to incompatibility with their ONTAp Deploy product, which is used to deploy a NetApp OnTap virtual machine. The stated issue is the inability to interact with the LIBVERT API.?. Is their a configuration...

Hi there, the Title may be a bit deceptive as I know there are good solutions that work for many but for me/my workplace we face a bit of a dilemma. I know I'm opening this can of worms again and this is also partly me venting a bit of my frustration and I'm sorry about that. We wanna use...

Dear memebers, What would be the recommend settings for setup HDD storage for VM VMS CCTV on Windows 11 Pro? Is it fine to have Passthrough HDD directly to Windows and there to format NFTS with 90% of total memory? Also options in VM, I disable Backup option and else is by default. Should...

Hi, I've created a 3 node Proxmox cluster to test, and presented a Fibre Channel Lun. I've then created a LVM group on top as per https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Multipath I then imported a VM, and it's done raw format on the lvm storage group. I couldn't create a snapshot, so I reimported the...

Hi all. I just got my new server and I wanted to migrate some of my cts and vms from my old server (node1) to the new server (node2). So what I did, was 0. upgrade node1 from Proxmox 8.1.* (latest) to 9.1 1. to create a cluster on node1 2. join the cluster from node2 3. this is where it got...

Hello, I accidentally removed several lines from the /etc/pve/storage.cfg file that defined the storage containing the Proxmox system itself (SD card). After reboot, the system fails to boot because it cannot find the boot device. I can access the system via a root shell, but the storage.cfg...

Hello all! I'm a developer with OSNEXUS. We’re excited to announce the pre-release version of the QuantaStor Proxmox Storage Plugin, designed to simplify the management of QuantaStor storage within Proxmox VE clusters. This plugin enables seamless creation and management of ZFS-over-iSCSI...

Hello, I am having an issue when move storage from datastore-2 to datastore-1 in Proxmox. The process fails with a qemu-img error. I am still new to Proxmox and would like to ask what could be the cause of this issue. root@pve-node-1:~# cat /etc/pve/storage.cfg dir: local path...

I've recently added another Proxmox Host and a Q-Device to my Environment in order to get some redundancy implemented. However, I've now noticed that my current Storage solution doesn't seem to be suited to achieve the goals that I want it to achieve. I currently have a Linux Storage Server, on...

Hardware: 2 x 500GB sata ssd's (WD Red SA500) 4 x 2TB nvme ssd's (WD_BLACK SN850X) Current plan: Install proxmox in zfs raid 1 on the two sata ssd's. Use the other 4 nvme drives to create storage for VMs (docker, etc) / CTs (pihole, etc) / smb (probably open media vault) What I'm struggling...

Hi I’m pretty new to Proxmox and a total noob when it come to Linstor and DRDB. I have a 2 node Proxmox-Cluster with an additional corosync-qdevice running on my Unraid-NAS. Now I try to get DRBD working but unfortunately I fail. I followed these tutorials...

The current NAS series from Ugreen seems to be a good platform for a small home setup, but I am struggling a bit with choosing the right disk constellation. I am planning with the DXP4800 (Intel N100 4 cores, 8 GB RAM) and installing PVE on it. The main consideration here is power efficiancy...