storage

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    Ceph Monitors not starting

    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...
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    Help! - Proxmox storage VM Disks, ISO images unaccessable randomly

    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...
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    Proxmox Disks / Storage Setup

    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...
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    USB 3.0 to SATA - Storage Disconnect

    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...
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    Windows Storage Issues after Migration from Xen

    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...
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    Trouble attaching SAN to Proxmox

    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...
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    VM STORAGE .VDI FILE

    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...
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    Why Does ZFS Hate my Server

    i have this bizarre situation where using ZFS on a Dell R730xd leads to something completely useless. i have spent most of an entire week trying to troubleshoot it in every manner possible. it simply. doesn't. budge. system topology: Dell R730xd it was two 2.5" sata ports in the back connected...
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    Proxmox storage setup recomendation

    Hi All! I'm new in Proxmox and I would like to have knowladge about storage config. I used before ESXI as hypervisor, so I have a little experience with virtualization . Now I have 3 storage connected directly to the host: 1-ssd for Proxmox 1-nvme for VMs ( I will use LVM) 4-4TB disk in RAID5...
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    Hohe IO-Last auf Storage per NFS führt zu Totalunfall

    Hallo, ich habe zuhause einen 4 Node Cluster. Alle vier Nodes haben als Storage einen NFS Share von meinem anderen Server eingebunden. Leider ist bei mir alles nur auf 1Gbit, da ich "alte" PCs zu wiederverwende. Bei mir ist eine durchgehende Last von ca 5-6 MB/s vorhanden, was nicht sonderlich...
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    Multipathing with SAS storage but still be able to snapshot

    Hi there, I currently have a Proxmox Cluster with 2 identical Hosts with SAS cards and a V3700 V2 Storage that has each storage-canister directly attached to both Hosts with SAS cables. I was able to successfully configure multipathing and create an LVM on it, however, as the documentation...
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    Storage Freezing Issue

    i am having a storage freezing issue on a proxmox server that's using ZFS, and while i found a bunch of other people on the forum who have had the same issue, i am unable to find any kind of a solution. i know this is shooting in the dark a little, but does this error mean anything to anybody...
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    Backup Server Hardware Specs & Storage Sizing

    Hello. First of all, I'm sorry if my English is not good enough, I'm not a native English speaker but I will try my best to make myself understandable so don't hesitate to ask me to rewrite some explanations if they're not clear enough. We've been using Hyper-V Core 2016 at work with some more...
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    Confused on volumes for LXC Snapshots and backups

    Hello! I'm a total and complete newb on Proxmox, heck, using this has made me realized even the things I thought I knew, well, I don't. At all. I've created a Proxmox VE that lives atop Debian 12 on an Intel NUC for hosting a few LXCs for a Home Server using mostly ttecks's scripts, (for now...
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    MSA P2000 Gen3 mit Cluster verbinden

    Moin, ich habe: 1x HP MSA P2000 Gen3 mit zwei SAS-Controller am laufen 2x HP DL380 Gen9 Auf der MSA laufen zwei Volumen im Raid-5 Die beiden Controller der MSA sind jeweils mit den beiden Servern verbunden (also insgesamt 4.Kabel) Wie bekomme ich nun die beiden Volumen in mein...
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    FC Multipath config now working ( At first VM creation multipath breaks )

    Hi people! As it's a common thing right now, giving the broadcom decitions, my company it's looking to migrate to a more viable solution in economic terms. I've been trying to set up a HP Fiber Channel Storage with multipath, and i'm really struggling here... (We use this type of storage in...
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    [SOLVED] ZFS storage total size doesn't match.

    I have 6 512GB SSD drives, which is configured as SINGLE zpool with TWO RAIDZ1 vdev for balancing write-speed and redundancy. Naviely, I should get a 2TB ZFS storage in my pve node, I named the storage as "Tank". But zfs list command tells me, I've got about 1.79TB total space of Tank. ZFS...
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    PBS configuration for LXC inside raidz

    Hi Thankfully I did install Proxmox VE then PBS inside LXC using tteck script. Also I did configure the backup storage as a raidz. then I did create a ZFS dataset for backup storage. After that I did create a mount point for the PBS LXC inside the backup dataset. to use it as the backup storage...
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    ZFS Mount showing less size than actual zpool size

    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...
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    DIY NAS Software on a 24 bay 2U

    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