storage

I have built 3 Proxmox server HA-Ceph with separate management and HA network using a 10GB switch. While testing I found that it takes around 30-40 seconds for a VM to migrate from 1 server to another. How can I increase the migration/fencing speed also how to setup live migration I notices...

Hello everyone, I'm reaching out to you regarding an issue with my Proxmox VE setup. I've added an SMB storage managed by TrueNas, which is hosted within a VM on my server. I'm using this storage for backing up my server, and these backups are then sent to OneDrive through TrueNas. However, I...

With VMware transitioning to subscription-only licensing, and deprecation of a lot of their products. I'm exploring alternative virtualization platforms suitable for an enterprise environment we manage, which includes: 12 hosts with 600 VMs at the main site. 6 hosts with 20 VMs at a hot site...

I am a newbie to proxmox and low level drive configs. I am trying to setup a home server on a mini pc and want to store data on a second nvme drive + usb-drive . What is the best technique to share the nvme storage with the guest container (privileged) , I am lost between different mount...

Hi all, I just came home today to find my RAID 10 ZFS pool completely full for no reason. It's 4x8 TB WD GOLD drives and the max capacity says is 14.4 TB - it was abouzt half full. I have a few LXC containers, some images, backups, a 3 TB virtual disk and I mounted some directories to my...

Hey folks, When browsing this forum, I've seen a couple of different recommendations on which of these settings to choose (especially when it came to NFS Storage options). I was wondering if anybody could educate us on which one of these are bests for the various use cases. (and for personaly...

Hello. I have proxmox ve. And connected synology with iscsi, and I can create new vm on that storage, bit I can't clone VM on that storage: ---------------------- "Task viewer: VM 100 - Clone OutputStatus StopDownload create full clone of drive scsi0 (local-lvm:base-100-disk-0) TASK ERROR: clone...

Hi Everyone, I’m putting together a new home-lab build and I want to try out Proxmox VE for the first time. I’m looking for some advice on storage configurations for the boot drive and a drive to run the VMs from. - What is your preferred configuration? - Do you use NVMe or SATA SSDs for...

So I have built 2 new Proxmox servers. I have setup the networking but had a question about storage. I have a RAID2 for OS installation I have another RAID5 for VM/Container storage I was unable to format the RAID5 via the GUI but found where someone wiped/zero the disk "dd if=/dev/zero...

I'm trying out Proxmox for the first time and am having trouble understanding how to add an internal hard drive to a container. Here is my setup, detailed as best as I understand it: Computer is an old Dell Studio desktop with two drives: an SSD and an 8TB HDD. The node I setup is on the SSD...

Hello, is it possible to use the hard disk on which the operating system is installed also as datastorage? I have 2x 2TB hard drives. One is already used as storage.

Hi all, I am trying to use the clone function to create a new VM. If I only execute the process once, it works fine. However, if I attempt to run it multiple times simultaneously, the following error occurs: At the time of the error occurrence, I tried to find PVE-related logs but couldn't...

Hey everyone! I'm still a bit new to this, and therefore sometimes a bit overwhelmed when it comes to one or the other topic, as a small disclaimer. Since it has been pointed out that VMs rather than LXCs should be used for docker containers, I would like to run a CouchDB as a docker container...

Hey allerseits! Ich bin noch etwas neu bei der Sache, und dementsprechend manchmal etwas überfordert wenn es um das ein oder andere Thema geht, als kleiner disclaimer. Nachdem darauf verwiesen wird, dass man eher VMs anstatt LXCs für docker container benutzen soll, würde ich gerne eine CouchDB...

Hey guys. I'm in need of help. I'm trying to add a USB stick to my server to serve as storage, just for testing. I already have a HD with 1 TB of capacity in BTRFS and I want to add the storage of this pendrive in BTRFS as well. I turned the pendrive into btrfs with mkfs.brtrs /dev/sdbx and...

Hello person. Answer me a question. I have Proxmox installed on my server on a RAID 10 with 4 disks. I'm running out of space and want to increase storage. If I expand my RAID by adding 4 more disks to it, will Proxmox automatically notice this increase? It has a DELL server and would expand the...

Hello, I am working on setting up a cluster with where the VMs are on local storage but use/sync to the shared storage for HA and Cluster options. The hardware I have is as follows: 3 proxmox clustered machines (will be more but 3 for now) - Each has local nvme storage Each has access to a SAN...

Hi, I am pretty new to proxmox. I have one VM and I am getting an i/o error probably because LVM Thin is full. This is how it looks like. I have one 64 GB disk and 48 GB allocated to the one VM. How do I increase data? root@pve:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on...

Hi, I recently came to know about Proxmox. I know that to build HA cluster I need 3 servers working together on min 10G network. My question is how Proxmox creates shared storage to perform VMs migration? What kind of storage I need(SSD,HDD)? I am planning to purchase and build 3 server...

I'm a bit confused how do you specify where the VM image will be created - any pointers would be greatly appreciated. I've created an LVM RAID0 volume and mounted it at /media/RAID0POOL. Added this resource "Datacenter" -> "Storage". But when I try to create a VM I see no option to point...