storage

Hi, I am new to proxmox and was wondering why my local-lvm is filling up when I transferred media files to a completely different drive. My scenario was, I had a windows 11 vm spun up with 8TB HDD, I connected an external SSD via usb and passed it through to the VM no problem but I noticed as I...

Hey all, I repurposed one of my windows machines into a proxmox box, but it never recognized the 512GB NVMe drive. And it doesn't seem to even be aware of the fact that the NVMe drive exists. lspci and lsblk return no mentions of any NVMe slot/drive, but the UEFI can see the NVMe, and I can even...

Storage noob here. I am building a new single node proxmox server on a 2U server that has 9 3.5in 4TB HDDs and 6 2.5in 800GB SSDs beyond what is used for Proxmox's boot image. The server will be running a mix of stateful container workloads, databases for stateless containers, and VMs for...

Hello All, Here's another technote in the Windows on Proxmox series. In Part 4, we quantify and compare IOPS, bandwidth, and latency across all storage controllers and AIO modes under ideal conditions (i.e., "unloaded"), utilizing Windows 2022 running on Proxmox with iSCSI shared block storage...

Hello, There are times when we need to address issues related to noisy guests by storage. For instance, if we encounter slow storage and need to identify which VM or LXC is utilizing the majority of the resources. I have created some per-cluster/node dashboards in Grafana utilizing the default...

Dear, hello everyone. I have a storage server with truenas, on the other hand I have other servers with proxmox. What I need is for the disks of both the containers and the virtual machines to be stored on the NAS server. But what happens, if the share is nfs I can create containers and not run...

Hello everyone, and im so happy to join such a great community. i created an ubuntu vm and assigned it a LVM disk for storage. on the initial setup i made a mistake and only assigned 850 gb, i copied all my files and then i found out i only have 30 gb left of storage. So i wanted to increase the...

Okay, so a little background information: PVE 6.4-6 Running up to 8 VMs HP ML330 G6 - X5650 110GB RAM I now nearly have all my 'everyday' VM's up and running again, however my Storj VM refuses to run.. complaining "attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'" When I go into Console, and...

Hello, I'm trying to get the best storage possible using fiber-channel SAN. With Multipath, I'm able to get the SAN appear as disk on my nodes, and I'm able to create a PV/VG on it. So I have now a Shared storage based on LVM, on my SAN, available on all my nodes. The only issue I get, is...

hi all, i have a group since older versions for users. since v8 group rights are different/new. i have mount a nfs storage with iso´s, how can i add rights to my user group, thats users can only use iso´s, but don´t can remove and edit it and don´t show others on this storage? my user-group is...

Greetings everyone, Good news! We've managed to carve out some time to compile the latest data set for our ongoing exploration of Windows 2022 server on Proxmox. Part 3: Computational Efficiency of Storage Controller Configurations under Constrained Bandwidth Workloads Expanding upon the...

Hey guys I need some help with configuring automounted drives in proxmox. Backstory: I've lately been having some troubles with configuring my storage. Initially I had some mount points at mnt/ and some at mnt/pve/. So I decided to move them all to mnt/pve/. I did this, mounted them and i...

Hi. Some time ago I took of hetzner auction a machine with 15 x 6TB HDD. Somewhat naive (if not plain stupid) I configured it in one vdev raidz2. auch. it run few VM (very slow) and few LXC and some backing up for my substancial photo-library, and predictably machine is slowly dying I even got...

Hello everyone, I’m reaching out to you all as I’ve encountered a bit of a puzzle with my mini PC setup. I’m fairly new to this, so any guidance would be greatly appreciated! Here’s my current setup: I have a mini PC equipped with a 1TB NVMe SSD and a 1TB SATA HDD. I’m running Proxmox on the...

Hello everyone, I’m reaching out to you all as I’ve encountered a bit of a puzzle with my mini PC setup. I’m fairly new to this, so any guidance would be greatly appreciated! Here’s my current setup: I have a mini PC equipped with a 1TB NVMe SSD and a 1TB SATA HDD. I’m running Proxmox on the...

Hi, I'm trying to move a VM disk from one SMB share to another. But i have a problem with that, the disk in question is 10TB. I did my research and tried to move it several times without success. Here is what i did: Try preallocation off Try moving it as qcow or raw Try to shut down...

Hello, I have a mini PC with a nvme ssd of 500gb. I installed proxmox on it. It seems Proxmox created 3 partitions: root, swap and data As far as I understand the root and swap are used by the system and data is available for VM/CT: Disk: LVM: LVM-Thin: Then I created a VM (Debian) using...

Hello, to set the context, I have a proxmox cluster with 3 nodes, I also have a ceph cluster with 3 nodes, everything is fine and everything works well independently. But, before linking the ceph cluster and the proxmox cluster (CephFS), I want a linux/windows client to use the ceph cluster as...

Hi, Installed Proxmox with ZFS, choosing ZFS (RAID0) during installation with only 1 disk. I have two storage locations, local and local-zfs, both showing 2TB. Changes in one don't impact the used space of the other. For instance, downloading an ISO to local increases it by 3G, but local-zfs...

Hey everyone, Given the recent developments with VMware/Broadcom, we've noticed a surge in inquiries related to running Windows on Proxmox. To assist those transitioning away from VMware, we've thoroughly examined Windows Server 2022 storage controller compatibility, native driver support...