storage creation

Hi, I got a new nvme m.2 1TB drive for VM's ONLY so that they are quick and snappy! What's the best way to expose it to proxmox as? I was thinking of thin provisioning? Do you have any recommendations? Many thanks

Hey all, I played around with proxmox a bit and originally had my 6 disks which range from 1tb to 2tb to 10tb directly connected to the motherboards sata ports, and I was able to create vg's with said disks, in the gui it says " vgcreate sda /dev/sda error: Run `vgcreate --help' for more...

Hi everyone, I currently administer a Proxmox server installed (by someone else who's not there anymore) on an old Dell XPS 8100, Core i7 860, 16Gb RAM, 4 x 500Gb HDD, 3 monitoring and ticketing VMs are currently running on it. I want to upgrade all this with two Dell Precision T5600 (for...

Hi everyone, I am trying to figure out how to configure two separate clusters which I need to run. Each cluster will contain 5 nodes - 4 Dell R720s and a supermicro 36-bay server for the storage making it 8 Dells and 2 Supermicros in total. The Supermicros will house 20 x 14TB SATA drives per...

Hello, The VMs so slow , I concluded that this slowness because of the use of a single disk for all functions (ISO, disk image ....), but I did not understand how I can manage my available disk to have good management i have 4 disks : device mapper ??? help pls ?

Hi all, Been playing with proxmox installs via pxe booting, and setting up new hardware which is a dell c6100 with each node having a single SSD + 4 SAS spinning rust each. It's a budget setup with standard dual port 1Gb ethernet cards. I'm curious as to the best setup here, given that I can't...

Hi everyone, Very new on the proxmox project, I give it a try to setup a homelab. I am trying to setup a connection to an ISCI LUN on a synology NAS on the same network. The discovery is OK (I can list the different target) but when I try to validate the connection, I have a timeout message...

I apologize if the question is trivial but for days I have been searching the web but I find no answers. I need to add mass storage to my Proxmox box and I followed this guide in creating a logical volume "inside" a volume group: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Extending_Local_Container_Storage...