storage

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    New HA Cluster Storage Hardware

    Hi I'm plan to setup a 3 Node HA Cluster with 3 HP DL380 G9 Servers. They have all 2x 10G NIC's. Now I'm not sure what the best option for storage would be. The following option / hardware i have available: - Local Disk's with Ceph - Dell MD3620 SAN - EMC VNXe3200 FC SAN - HP MSA 2040...
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    How to hide multipathed iSCSI storage targets in GUI?

    I'm using LVM on top of multipath on top of iSCSI storage. my iSCSI storage has 8 iSCSI endpoints (each controller has 4 ethernet ports, and as I'm using MCS, each controller has 4 IP addresses to load-balance the traffic) can I somehow hide these iSCSI storage in Proxmox GUI? At the end, I...
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    Issue with multiple NFS storage mounts on the same server

    Hi! i am currently a bit lost while trying to get a storage running. In my current setup i am trying to add two NFS storages to my cluster that both reside on the same server runnign with DRBD. The storage.cfg is definetely correct pointing to the right exports: Stor1 - export /mnt/drbd0...
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    Fiber Chanel and Shared Storage - Snapshot supported (HA enabled)

    I will soon be purchasing IBM FlashSystem Storage for my 5 node Proxmox cluster. There are questions I'm wondering. 1 - ) I will provide 2 16G connections with FC from Storage to each node. How am I going to describe this to Proxmox. 2 - ) I have to use HA mode active. Any problems with live...
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    unable to activate storage 'DIR01' - directory is expected to be a mount point but is not mounted: '/mnt/pve/DIR01' (500)

    Hi everyone. Unfortunately by hard drives no longer appear to be recognized by proxmox. I am able to see them within TrueNas. I am having issues with DIR01 and DIR 02 the storage.cfg is following root@pve0:~# cat /etc/pve/storage.cfg dir: local path /var/lib/vz content...
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    Ceph Cluster Konfiguration zum Imitieren von RAID 1 auf einem Cluster Knoten

    Guten Tag zusammen, zur Zeit arbeite ich mich in die Konfiguration von einem Ceph Clusters als Speicherlösung ein. Ich habe es auch geschafft ein einfaches Ceph Cluster mit der Standardkonfiguration zu erstellen. 2 Knoten mit identischem Aufbau: - 2 HDD Festplatten - 2 SSD Festplatten...
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    Can't migrate VM to different storage volume

    Hi, Been using Proxmox on a test server and realize I want to commit a more substantial machine to using this awesome VE. Only to learn that differently named storage volumes cannot be migrated using the Web GUI. Okay then, no problem. So I try using the console and this happens: *So I...
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    Import Data from ZFS Disk

    HI All Honestly im newbie at Proxmox I have a disk with many virtual drives (.img files) what i want is to import them and use them in proxmox a little bit of context, that hard drive came from a previous unraid server , my idea is migrate all my vms to proxmox i am able to see my old...
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    Pls help with storage reassignment

    Hi, I don't remember precisely (it's a home lab, I'm not an IT pro) why I had my system drive divided to a LVM-Thin volume ("data") and a Directory volume, but now I have the system on Directory (as expected) and the LVM-Thin volume is almost empty and unused. What I want to do is remove the...
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    Staring a vm causes unrelated disk disappear

    I get weird situation Proxmox is installed on btrfs raid of 3 USB flash drives I have two additional btrfs raids on 2x18 TB and 2x15TB where I store data I have NVME where my images are When I start a vm from NVME for some reason my unrelated 15TB and 18TB btrfs raids disappear, lsblk does not...
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    [SOLVED] Storage einem Pool zuweisen via CLI

    Hallo Zusammen, gibt es eine Möglichkeit über die CLI beim anlegen von Storage (oder von mir aus auch danach) diesen einem Resource Pool zuzuweisen? Viele Grüße, Cinux
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    Replikation eines ZFS Storages des Hosts

    Hallo, auf einem Host existiert u.a. ein ZFS storage, welches Daten per NFS in VM's weiter gibt. Dieses storage muss groß Dimensioniert sein weil es hohe Fluktuationen gibt. Eine "VM" mit einer explizitem Partition wäre nicht zielführend, da es sonst sehr viel ungenutzten Platz belegen...
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    [SOLVED] Proxmox + Hetzner Storage Box

    Hi, I bought the BX11 Storage Box offering from Hetzner and also do have a dedicated server with Proxmox (v8.0.3) installed on it. Network etc. works, but I stuck in adding the BX11 to my Proxmox setup. Current status: - A directory on BX11 at "/home/backups/myproxmox" has been created -...
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    [SOLVED] Local Storage fehlt nach Cluster Build

    Eigentlich nutze ich Blockstorage nicht, aber dank dem Hinweis von Falk wegen NVME-oF wollte ich mal den Einsatz von Blockstorage testen. Ich habe einen Node mit LVM und einen Node mit BTRFS aufgesetzt. Dann habe ich dem einem 'nen iSCSI-Storage zugewiesen. Damit der anderen den auch sieht und...
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    Adding Shared Folder to Plex server Running Inside a ProxMox Container

    Hello everyone, First off, I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post this. I didn't see any other section that would look better than this one for me to post my issue. Please feel free to move it around if need be. So unto my problem now. I currently run my Plex server from a Synology...
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    Default cephfs and librbd volumes statuses are "Unknown"

    After following the wiki to create a hyperconverged cluster, my `cephfs` and `librbd` volumes on my host servers have a little grey question mark next to them, and a "Status: Unknown" help text when i hover over them. Since they're there by default, I figured that once I got down to the pool...
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    Newbie questions

    I want to use Proxmox to host a home file server and a few other things, and I'm new to Proxmox. One of my early thoughts was to simply create a directory on the host and for the [Linux] clients to mount it directly from there, either using SSHFS or installing Samba on the host. I got the...
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    USB Device disconnects frequently and doesnt re-connect

    Hi all, having an issue with my proxmox storage, i have a 8TB sata HDD in an external caddy connected via USB 3.1 to my server. this drive is used for the storage for my file server and seems to disconnect randomly (with a tendancy to do so when there are high reads/writes to it) i have done...
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    Checklist, moving from boot single disk to mirror

    I would like to move from boot single disk to the recommended default mirror and also switch to UEFI while i am at it. Setup: - 1 drive with BIOS boot, Grub, LVM/pve-root - 4 drives in ZFS as storage for all VMS - 2 new drives as new root Considering I don't have storage/backup server to...
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    Help me on deciding storage options.

    Hello I am building a new homelab server machine and I am trying to pick the storage. My main usage will be VMs as well as Containers...like Kubernetes Cluster in Proxmox, Home Assistant, TrueNas, Plex, Unifi Controller, AIML stuff, and many more. I am a Software person so when it comes to...

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