storage

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    How pools use the space

    Hi, i'm workin with the api in the proxmox to get the available space we had in differents pools, but i see some curious thing with the api I get 9.6 tb availble but in the web interface show me with a simple substraction the space availble is 10 tb approximately, with gemini explain that is...
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    Storage: BTRFS vs ZFS vs plain EXT4 DM raid

    Hi all, Currently I am running on PVE 9.1 with native MDADM RAID5(3x8 TB disks) looking into prospects for switching to BTRFS or ZFS but every now and then power goes out. At the moment I got 4 TB used out of ~ 16 TB and despite some issues it works awesome. Anyone got experience with ZFS and...
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    Clustered iSCSI as LVM on LVM-Thin SAN

    Hello all. I am aware the issue of configuring LVM-Thin in a clustered environment with shared storage has been extensively discussed and why it is a really bad idea. However, l would like to ask this question from a different angle. When looking into our SAN storage configuration, there is an...
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    Supported way for a NAS across multiple nodes that supports thin disks, snapshots, live migrations, move disks, and HA?

    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...
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    VM freezes during snapshot/backup on NFS (Proxmox 9, no errors in logs)

    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...
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    Ceph namespace support in PVE

    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...
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    Volume level caching

    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...
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    Disk Type Support For iSCSI

    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>'...
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    Thin provisioning not reflected in Proxmox LVM shared storage over FC multipath

    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...
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    FC SAN cluster in proxmox

    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
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    LXC started without waiting for snippet storage to become available

    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...
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    NetApp ONTAP deploy support

    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...
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    Storage for small clusters, any good solutions?

    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...
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    Setting storage for VMS CCTV

    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...
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    LVM and snapshot-as-volume-chain

    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...
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    storage status unknown in cluster

    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...
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    Removed storage from the storage.cfg - Proxmox won't start

    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...
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    [TUTORIAL] QuantaStor Proxmox Storage Plugin

    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...
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    Move Storage fails with qemu-img convert (Invalid argument)

    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...
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    [SOLVED] External Storage Server for 2 Node Cluster

    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...