storage

Hello, I have a very peculiar case of which I did not find any solution elswhere. I have a Proxmox VE 8.2.4 running on my homelab server. I have a 256 SSD as my boot drive and one 620GB HDD for some of my data drive. The HDD is configured as a zfs pool (ID: WdcZfs) with the entire 620GB for its...

Hey hey, I want to move away from local storage to running a NAS for HA reasons. Going to buy an older 24Bay rackmount and use 24x intel enterprise SSDs (or similar). What software are you running on what configuration? NFS/iSCSI etc

I have been trying to mount NFS shares on LXCs for the past three days and I couldn't get it to work. I have seen guides on CIFS/SMB shares but nothing on NFS. I have tried mounting using the GUI but I kept get permission denied error. I have also followed TheHellSite's guide but I couldn't get...

I used the shell to stop the CephFS and delete but on the GUI it shows on all the nodes with a question mark still. How do I remove that?

Hi I need some help, Ive had an issue with an external drive thats been holding some vm disks on it - But its suddenly not showing the vm disks anymore and its also showing the space is maxed out When i try and attached a unused disk back to the vm its saying the disk does not exist But...

Hello everyone. I have an HP server with 2 storage volumes. On the first one, I installed Proxmox VE and I use the second one for storage. For this second volume, I followed a procedure to create a : - new GPT table - create primary partition in ext4 (parted) - create volume group (vgcreate) -...

Hello I've some Proxmox cluster and PBS. I want to monitor this features: Used Space Root User Disk Space Datastore Used Memory Used SWAP ZFS Raid Degraded Network Usage Network Disconnected PVE Version Update Status Uptime QEMU presence QEMU inside VM Disco RAM CPU Degraded ZFS Raid Snapshot...

Hello, I am encountering an issue with content storage creation using the Proxmox API. Specifically, I am trying to create a subvolume format with rootdir content in my storage using the following API endpoint: POST /api2/json/nodes/{node}/storage/{storage}/content Here is the JSON parameter I...

Hello, I have configured an RBD storage in my proxmox cluster. (It is an OVH external storage.) After increasing its size on OVH site (from 2Tio to 4Tio), I'm stiil seeing the previous size in Proxmox. Proxmox doesn't see the storage size increase. I can't find in "pvesm" and "rbd" commands...

Hi folks, I would be interested into your opinion. I am running single node of Proxmox on my UMAX N10 Pro mini PC. It is all-in-one PC with just 256GB SSD. As external storage I am using Synology DS120j I have for years I am wondering what would be your suggestions for storage if I want improve...

Hello, When I delete files or free up space within a virtual machine (VM), it doesn't directly translate to an equivalent decrease in the overall disk usage of the Proxmox node . it seems that it does not affect on proxmox node. what can i do?

# /sbin/zpool create -o ashift=12 vm-vault mirror /dev/disk/by-id/ata-CT2000BX500SSD1_2308E6AFBF41 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-CT2000BX500SSD1_2308E6AFBF9C cannot label 'sda': failed to detect device partitions on '/dev/sda1': 19 Error preparing/labeling disk. TASK ERROR: command '/sbin/zpool create -o...

when adding nodes to a cluster, can their local-zfs storage be shared between nodes? this is the loca-zfs pool that was created during the proxmox install.

Hello hope u have a wonderful day! For me i have a question regarding CEPH. A little about the situation: Recently created a "chepfs" from the "cephfs" tab in promox: I first created the "mds" ofc. Then i had it checked for "add as storage" but it failed. Okey tried to fix this by...

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, please, can you recommend some new storage for me for work with proxmox? We have now DELL ESX hosts with only two drives for OS, for data we have sepparate storage via fibre channel. Now we want to try, but i want to know, what kind of storage can i use for best performance. We need...

Hi, I try to upload with curl a iso file via the api to the storage, that works well (Prox 8.2). Now I tried to add the checksum check but nothing happens. I am not sure what happens or if it should work at all ? I get the same output regardless if the checksum is correct or not (file get...

Hello! Thank you for reading my post! I'm creating my first Windows 11 VM on Proxmox and I was wondering what are the best settings for the storage? I want it to be fast so I'm looking for the settings that would provide the best performance. I'm using a DRAM-less SSD to store the disk of the...

Hi there, I recently got a new 14 TB HDD from which I created a thinpool (lvm-thin), let's call it "datapool" for now. I also created a container (debian 12 based) located on local-lvm storage. Then I mounted 10 TB of the datapool to this container via the Mount option in the GUI. My problem...

Hey folks! I'm using a ZFS pool on my machine, and I've been mounting filesystems from the pool into Proxmox LXC containers. However, I've run into a problem where if a dataset has children (e.g. `tank/media` contains `tank/media/movies`, `tank/media/music`, etc.) then the filesystems below it...