storage

  1. bbgeek17

    [TUTORIAL] Understanding QCOW2 Risks with QEMU cache=none in Proxmox

    Hey everyone, A few recent developments prompted us to examine QCOW2’s behavior and reliability characteristics more closely: 1. Community feedback There are various community discussions questioning the reliability of QCOW2. We have customers (predating our native integration) interested in...
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    Shared Stroage (LXCs unprivilegiert) und Backups durch PBS

    Hallo liebe Community, ich suche seit langem nach einer guten Lösung für mein Problem und hoffe, dass ich hier auf gute Denkanstöße oder Lösungen gebracht werde. :) Ich möchte eine zentrale Speicherstelle haben, um meine Musik, Filme und Serien zu speichern. Darauf soll dann zum Beispiel ein...
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    Anfängerfragen Storage und Netz - Migration von ESXi/Vcenter

    Hallo zusammen, ich hoffe ich nerve hier im Forum nicht mit absoluten Anfängerfragen, hoffe aber, dass man mir vielleicht die richtigen Google-Links geben kann. Ich habe schon einiges gesucht, aber die Frage ist immer, ob die Infos noch aktuell sind und ob sie auch im produktiven Umfeld gut...
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    About Proxmox VE & PBS features

    Hi everyone, I’m looking into using Proxmox for a deployment and had a few questions about its capabilities. I’d really appreciate it if anyone could share their experience or insights: Scaling: Can Proxmox handle a cluster with 128 nodes or more? Are there any practical limitations or tips for...
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    Planning a Proxmox Setup: Home Assistant OS, Pi-hole, Nextcloud, Game Servers & Shared Storage

    Hey everyone, I’m pretty new to all this and planning to run Home Assistant on my mini PC. Originally, I was going to install it on Ubuntu Server, but I’ve since learned that Home Assistant OS is probably the better choice because of the add-ons. So that makes my original plan kind of...
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    Storage Füllgrad Anzeige nicht einheitlich beziehungsweise logisch.

    Hallo ich bin gerade dabei von ESXi auf Proxmox 9.0 umzustellen und frage mich gerade warum ein ZFS mit Kompressen, 2 verschiedene Ansichten und Belegungen hat. GUI und SSH anzeige sind identisch: Storage 'local-zfs-001' on node 'vms-ipn-001' -> rpool/data local-zfs-001 -> 60.80% (107.60 GB...
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    Option to "Migrate" virtual disks to another dataset

    In VMware you have the option to migrate Compute, Storage or Compute AND Storage. In fact I don't believe proxmox even has a single button to migrate all disks for a specific VM. AFAIK you have to select each individual virtual hard drive and click the move button, wait for it to finish before...
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    [WegweiserZumEigenbau] PVE mit extrem schnellem Full NVME ZFS Speichersystem mit Hochverfügbarkeit (Aktiv/Aktiv) über TCP oder RDMA auf Standard-HW

    Für die Forumsleser, die sich nur auf dem deutschsprachigen Bereich rumtreiben, mal eine Verlinkung zu interessanten Beiträgen: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/pathfinder4diy-pve-and-high-performance-full-nvme-storage-with-high-availability-active-active-via-tcp-or-rdma-on-commodity-hw.172217/
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    [WegweiserZumEigenbau] PVE mit sehr schnellem ZFS-over-ISCSI Speichersystem mit Hochverfügbarkeit (Aktiv/Passiv) über TCP oder RDMA auf Standard-HW

    Für die Forumsleser, die sich nur auf dem deutschsprachigen Bereich rumtreiben, mal eine Verlinkung zu interessanten Beiträgen...
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    Need advice on storage - directory in zfs pool or just zfs for vm

    I am newbie and need advice on storage. What I have done is to create zfs mirror pool with two 14tb sata hard drives. (datamirror) Then I created two directories in proxmox. One for vm and another for ISOs and backups. Is this the correct way to manage storage? Should I even use directory or...
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    Container with storage mounted on different drive

    Hello, I've created an Immich LXC using the community helper scripts and it installs and runs root on the drive of your choosing. However, it doesn't give the option to mount external storage options during its initial setup. I'm wondering how I can add a different storage option for my actual...
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    iSCSI Shared Storage Configuration for 3-Node Proxmox Cluster

    Hi I'm trying to configure shared iSCSI storage for my 3-node Proxmox cluster. I need all three hosts to access the same iSCSI storage simultaneously for VM redundancy and high availability. I've tested several storage configurations: ZFS LVM LVM-Thin ZFS share Current Issue With the ZFS share...
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    S.M.A.R.T values for new drives

    Hey all! I just installed four brand-new unopened WD Red SA500 2TB SSD drives for a completely new Proxmox server. Although the drives are brand new, I had them in storage for a while because they were bought for another project, but never used. However, when I first plugged them in proxmox, I...
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    Bootdisk problem after PVE 9.0.10 update

    I updated one of my PVE servers from 9.0.x to 9.0.10, since this moment I can see the following error if I select "Disks": Output of pvdisplay: root@pve02:/# pvdisplay --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/nvme0n1p3 VG Name pve PV Size...
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    Storage question, im stumped after hours of research :(! Shrink local and increase Directory storage

    Hi all, im trying to reduce my local storage and re assign it to my "agents" storage that i use for all of my LXCs & VMs. Im short, i have 6ish TB in my node1 local, and i am looking at 3.6TB Agents storage in directory type. My question is how can i cut local in half, and move the remaining...
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    Comparison table of relevant PVE block and file storage options (Performance and Features)

    For all the admins who looking for a detailed overview and a decision helper which PVE storage option to choose for their environment my one post here again the comparison table of the thread voting for zfs-over-iscsi feature. cheers
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    Token permissions and creating lxc container

    Hello, I am trying to create a lxc via the 8.4 api. I created a apitoken on the root user with propagated permissions. Here is the content I am using to send to the api { vmid: 9011, hostname: 'harry', ostemplate: 'cephfs:vztmpl/debian13-custom-20251002-dev.tar.gz', storage...
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    TrueNAS over iSCSI Native Storage Plugin for TrueNAS 25.10

    TrueNAS over iSCSI Native Storage Plugin https://github.com/boomshankerx/proxmox-truenas?tab=readme-ov-file#truenas-over-iscsi-native-storage-plugin-for-truenas-2510 Calling all beta testers. TrueNAS has released 25.10RC1. We are looking for beta testers for the fully API driven storage plugin
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    Lenovo SR650 V3 Proxmox Storage slow storage

    I have 4 Lenovo SR650 V3 , with 25Gb networking In active / passive each of the servers have 10 NVME i believe 3tb each, 4 nodes are in a cluster, ive used CEPH storage and ZFSPOOL RAIDZ2 either local or Linbit linstor, doing FIO test getting anywhere from 30 MBs to 500Mbs on the best day...
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    HDD Is Recognized but Not Usable

    Hello. I recently installed Proxmox on a new machine. The device is equipped with a 256GB SSD and a 4TB HDD, and I’ve confirmed that it’s detected in Proxmox. However, when I check Node > Summary, the HD Space shows only 67GB, which I assume is just the SSD being used. Do you know what might be...