storage

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...

Hi guys, I have an Ubuntu server VM. I use iscsiadm to connect to my iscsi target. My iscsi storage is for CCTV video record, sometimes it show errors like below and the iscsi sessions were disconnected. Please help me fix, thank you guys!!!

My scheduled backup went error and i do not know what is happening. It shows errors like this: INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 118 --prune-backups 'keep-last=1' --mode snapshot --node Proxmox102 --quiet 1 --mailnotification always --storage BackupVM_PC6_2 --notes-template '{{guestname}}'...

Hi! I found some comments about using Snapshots (LVM or ZFS or GlusterFS ) in Storage causes disk performance degradation ( permanent slow I/O ), but if you remove all the Snapshots, the performance is returning to normal. Has anyone here had a similar experience?

Hello, Currently, I have about 50 GB of logs, most of them being used by `mail.info*` and `syslog*` I am not looking to store more than 90 days of logs. I've `logrotate` but `mail.info` remained at 15G, along with some other logs, which is huge considering that the PMG has very little traffic...

Hello, I'm running TrueNAS Scale and I created a ZFS dataset for ISO files. I created both an SMB and NFS share pointing to it so I can use those ISO's between all my Windows and Linux clients. The share path was /mnt/pve/truenas-iso and I noticed Proxmox couldn't see the ISO's I had placed...

I'm trying to reproduce a configuration in my ESX environment. Essentially I deploy a service/app VM which is immutable and mount/bind a mutable storage volume. Deploying upgrades is as simple as creating V2 of the VM, binding/mounting the storage volume and then stopping the old VM and starting...

Hi, i have still a lot to learn about ProxMox and Linux. Here is my question. I have successfully migrated a handful of VM's from VMWare to ProxMox now. I always followed Guide's online. On the ProxMox Server i used to go into /root/vmware and executed: "/usr/bin/ovftool...

Hallo, ich bin gerade dabei meinen ersten Promox VE Server inbetriebzunehmen und ersuche um eine Einschätzung zum Thema Storage. Die Hardware des Server hat ein Hardware RAID (LSI MegaRAID 9560-8i mit BBU) und 4x 12TB SAS HDDs + 4x 960GB SSDs jeweils als RAID10 am RAID Controller für VMs + 2x...

I'm experiencing an issue with my Proxmox setup where the iSCSI LUN becomes unrecognized during high usage by guest VMs. The VMs have their disks backed by this iSCSI LUN. Initially, everything works fine, but after a while, the drives stop working. **Setup:** - **Proxmox VE Version:** 8.2.2 -...