storage architecture

Hi there, currently one of my customers plans to migrate an existing VMWare environment to a KVM based solution. The VMWare setup is pretty large with about 2.000 CPU cores, ~50TB memory and ~2.000 TB full-flash SAN storage. Eventhough we would setup several Proxmox clusters, we still need a...

Please forgive me, as I'm a total beginner. I'm wondering best practices/feedback on using one disk as the storage for multiple VMs and CTs. Here's what I have right now: /dev/sdc is used for backups. /dev/sdd is used for security cam storage. Things get a bit funky with ZFS formatted disk...

Hi, I know I could have all the info reading the PVE Admin guide. Can you please help me to fast track a bit for my modest scenario. Current Proxmox: single server, updated to v8.3. Installed using all default options (I believe FS is ext4, LVM thin). Used for sporadic testing of various...

Hello everyone, I try to be as concise as possible. In our company we have around 80 virtual machines in production. 10 nodes (HPE BladeCenter c7000) with fiberchannel HBA (Dell EMC vnx5200) all on VMware and Veeam as backup system. Given recent developments, we are considering moving to a new...

Ich bin gerade dabei meine Projektarbeit zu schreiben und habe überlegt wie ich am Besten bei uns im Unternehmen die Storageanbindung mache. Meine Idee war jeweils für die ISO-Dateien, für die Backups/Snapshots und die VM-Dateien separat einen NFS-Speicher bei NetApp anzulegen. Hat da jemand...

Hello, I am planning a setup where I will likely be using MergerFS to create a pool of multiple drives for an LXC. I have not been able to find documentation on how the best practices for that would be. Installing MergerFS on the host and using a bind mount to pass it through to the LXC should...

i know i should be able to do this, and various forum entries suggest the same, but for some reason i can't. i'm trying to migrate a vm from a zfs-local proxmox host, to a lvm-local proxmox host, both of which are on version 8.2. i installed proxmox on the destination host as ext4, then went...

Are there plans for native FibreChannel support and an alternative to vmfs? I think this is a crucial factor for many enterprise customers. In my opinion, Proxmox needs to completely reorient itself in the storage area in order to take off in the enterprise environment. Many customers are...

I am on a path to migrate 15x ESXi servers (With vcenter / Distributed networking / cluster) and 200TB FC SSD SAN, with Proxmox virtualization. I am facing lots of challenges with the lack of a "good filesystem" like VMFS. I have my first 2 PVE servers up running with Multipath, and LVM in...

I have a new cluster, one node - 4TB drive, default install. One VM, with 32G of storage. Question 1: Where, really, is the 32G of data? Based on https://opensource.com/business/16/9/linux-users-guide-lvm, I think it's... 4TB drive -> GPT layout -> 3rd partition -> LVM -> default 'pve' volume...

Hi guys, I really like Proxmox and I kind of convinced my employer to move from RHEV to Proxmox. So now here I am in the middle of the configuration. So far everything went well and was simple to setup except of the storage configuration. Environment: We have two datacenters which are...

Hi I've brought Minisforum MS-01 and have been running proxmox from last 4 months on a single Samsung 3.84TB PM9A3 U.2 SSD drive stably. Now, I've brought 2 more Samsung 3.84TB NVME SSD PM983. The device has 3 slots 1. U.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 (max 8 GB/s) used by PM9A3 U.2 SSD (7 Gbsps) 2. M.2 PCIe...

I've installed a NAND NVMe drive in a USB case and I'm encountering issues with SMART monitoring in Proxmox. I'm receiving emails from Proxmox due to this issue. The strangest part is that I can execute smartctl on the drive only after I click on the "Disks" section in the PVE GUI. Otherwise, it...

I'm trying to reproduce a configuration in my ESX environment. Essentially I deploy a service/app VM which is immutable and mount/bind a mutable storage volume. Deploying upgrades is as simple as creating V2 of the VM, binding/mounting the storage volume and then stopping the old VM and starting...

Hi Proxmox Community, I'm currently setting up a Proxmox environment and could use some guidance regarding the optimal sizes for VM boot drives and the best practices for creating a SWAP partition. Here is the breakdown of my planned setup: Storage Setup: 6x p1600x/118GB drives in RAID10...

Hello, New to ProxMox here and I have quick question. Would it not be ideal to attach the existing datastore used by VMware to Proxmox for easy storage migration, would simply need to import the VM into the ProxMox cluster for processing. Example: SAN----VMware | ProxMox

Hello. I just completed my Proxmox + OPNsense installation (everything works fine now but of course I need to do some more work and research) but I have got (maybe) a very dumb question. In my Proxmox I have a LVM-thin storage where my virtual machine is stored. It's fine. And now let's say...

Good morning everybody. I planned the following scenario and would like to know if anyone here has set up something similar or if something in the services has any limitations. I will have two OmniOS servers, with ZFS and using COMSTAR for iscsi. The two storage servers have several Intel...

Hello, I've recently re-created my proxmox setup (I'm kinda noob on this) following guides. I've partioned my disk during the installation (ssd 500G) in order to have free space as VM storage. How can I use this free space? I've look around and find that I should use fdisk but when I do it says...

I have a couple Dell Poweredge R240 servers and I want to install Proxmox on these. Each currently has a Dell 960 GB balanced read/write Enterprise SSD. There are 3 free 3.5" drive bays - 4 total per server. I can buy a bunch of 3TB enterprise drives for cheap and create a ZFS pool with 1 drive...