storage

I'm learning by doing, so apologies if I've missed some basic steps or information. I have a three node cluster made up of Lenovo ThinkCentres (M900 TFF) that I got from a friend after his work decommissioned them. They've been working great, but only came with 128GB SSD SATA drives, which...

Hi People, Im having a bit of a weird issue where I have created a striped Logical Volume using the CLI but when I add it to the storage.cfg or use pvesm add lvm <STORAGE_ID> --vgname <VGNAME> to add it to the cluster it shows up as full. Im sure I am doing somthing really silly but I can't...

Hi folks, I came across that I can configure the default values for the manual backup function. I'm currently on: pve-manager/8.2.7/3e0176e6bb2ade3b (running kernel: 6.8.12-2-pve) This is from my vzdump.conf: mode: stop compress: zstd notes-template:{{cluster}}, {{guestname}}, {{node}}...

Hello, I am currently moving my movie, tv show, and book files from 2 different NTFS hard drives onto a larger ZFS storage drive. I am very familiar with Windows, but Proxmox is new to me and I am trying to learn more. I am not sure how to make this move for someone who wants to setup a full...

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...

Hi. I have proxmox VE and Synology with multiple LUNs connected as LVM via ISCSI.For some tests, I cloned the LUN in Synology. But when trying to connect them to proxmox VE, it seems to complain about the same UUID. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ create...

Hi everyone, i created unprivileged container and I want to mount two folders to it I did it with mount points. the problem is that I need that the folder will have permission of 1000:1000 and I cant seems to get it right. after some searches and using this link...

Hi Forum, i'm new to proxmox. About LVM i know something, but not about thin provisioning. What i want: import virtual machines from a qemu/KVM/libvirt instance. What i did: I created a virtual machine inside proxmox, it has id 100. I have a LVM thin pool called "data", it resides in a volume...

im currently using hyper v and have some clusters setup. ive only just started tinkering with proxmox on a single server, and currently have 3 identical servers, and 2 others that are different. if i moved all servers over to proxmox would they all work together without any issues or would they...

I cannot mount my physical storage disk which had previously been mounted. As soon as I run the mount command in Ubuntu terminal, my VM freezes and Proxmox shows "IO error". The drive is 100% full so it's not really surprising (not sure how that happened as I'd just made 200gb worth of free...

Hi, I know it's possible to configure iSCSCI in proxmox for my Guest Storage. What about scenario can Guest access/mount iSCSCI directly from ex. TrueNAS iSCSCI share somewehre on the network. Reason for asking is that I need to create 3 x RH OpenShift Worker Nodes and want to do it on one...

root@pve:~# pvesm status activating LV 'storage01-slow/storage01-slow' failed: Activation of logical volume storage01-slow/storage01-slow is prohibited while logical volume storage01-slow/storage01-slow_tmeta is active. Name Type Status Total Used...

I have a cluster with 3 nodes. All in all, this works perfectly. However, if I want to copy a VM or ISO from one of the first two nodes to the last node, the copy process aborts after about 1GB and the third node appears as offline. However, when I click on it, everything is displayed and...

Hello I have just configured ceph on proxmox and i see that the monitor on the 2nd node and 3rd node is stopped state I am running a 3-node cluster the systemctl is showing active and running but for some reason it's in a stopped state in GUI I just found this on Syslog in the uI ep 25 21:59:08...

I have a Unraid storage setup in datacenter connected via SMB. this has been working for 3 years no problem. Randomly, last night I couldnt access my VM and noticed that it was unable to find the VM disk attached, stored on the unraid storage. I check proxmox storage and notice that the backups...

I'm setting up a Proxmox server (for a homelab) and am not sure how best to set up disks and storage. I am a newbie with servers, storage, Proxmox et al and current plan is a TrueNAS setup; I will play later also around with software/containers as well and see where it takes me. The disks I...

Hi Proxmox folks, I have two external SSDs which I'm trying to connect to my Proxmox node via USB 3.0 to SATA cables. However, I'm seeing behaviour where I have one of them plugged into the USB 3.0 port running just fine, but when I plug the other one in, the first one disconnects :( Here are...

Hello Everybody, I have an Issue with Windows VMs dropping Disk I/O after migration to proxmox from xcp-ng. Here is the pveversion -v of one of my pve hosts. proxmox-ve: 8.2.0 (running kernel: 6.8.8-4-pve) pve-manager: 8.2.4 (running version: 8.2.4/faa83925c9641325) proxmox-kernel-helper...

I am testing Proxmox and we have a SAN from Pure Storage. I have a 3 host cluster and each can see the storage available (both local and SAN), but the SAN storage is duplicated with each Fibre channel connection. I have installed multipath tools and have used some steps found here to edit the...

Hello, Does anyone ever use Virtualbox for their VM? if so, do you guys experiencing the same as me such as when im already setting up maximum storage in Virtualbox setting which is 2TB, but when it already running long enough maybe around 2-3 months i try deleting data to free up my storage...