storage

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    Truenas as storage error

    I an trying to add my Truenas as a storage to proxmox using CIFS, But i keep getting this error, create storage failed: error with cfs lock 'file-storage_cfg': mount error: Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) (500) the version of the proxmox is 6.1-7, and it worked on...
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    How do I create and add a secondary partition to my NVMe drive?

    I've installed Proxmox on a 1TB NVME drive, and used the advanced settings to tell the installer that I only wanted to use 256GB for Proxmox. Now I'd like to create an LVM-Thin partition on the remaining 750GB(ish) to be used for storing VM disk files. I can't seem to find out how to do this. I...
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    [SOLVED] 7.4 cluster with mixed storage (XFS and ZFS)

    I have issues since on my Proxmox cluster since I added a new node with ZFS (RAIDZ2) storage. I had a 3-node cluster (version 7.3) where each nodes (names: node1, node2 and node3) had a single disk using XFS filesystem, I added a new v7.4 node (name: node4) having 8 disks ZFS RAIDZ2. Note...
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    [TUTORIAL] Proxmox: iSCSI and NVMe/TCP shared storage comparison

    Hello Everyone. We received excellent feedback from the previous storage performance investigations, particularly the technotes on optimal disk configuration settings (i.e., aio native, io_uring, and iothreads) and the deep dive into optimizing guest storage latency. Several community members...
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    nfs storage mounts get unmounted

    I am hoping someone might be able to explain or help me understand what might be happening with a couple of containers I have which use nfs mounts to my truenas server. On the truenas server I have three nfs shares: nfs1, nfs2 and nfs3 On proxmox I have two lxc containers: lxc1 and lxc2 I...
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    Pass storage backed mount point to LXC container

    I'm trying to pass through an existing LV to a container. I believe this means I need to use an image based, storage backed mountpoint as described here, which mentions a special syntax for creating a new LV, but there is no mention of the option to mount an existing LV. I have created a new...
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    For the Wishlist: Storage in GUI needs an R/W and IO Overview

    Hello Maybe something like that is planned or maybe not. In the Storage View of ZFS, LVM, ... you can see available Storage. But you can't see any Performance Stats of this particular Storage, like overall Read/Write Bandwidth or IO Bandwidth.. This would help to monitor Storage directly in...
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    Storage Management - Help required

    Hi Everyone, I am new to this Forum and hope to receive some help with my Storage Management. I am aware of the basics and different types of storage and so on, but i don't know how to manage all of this in a "real life usecase". My Setup: 1x Nvme - 250Gib -> Proxmox OS installed (Ref. as...
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    Optimal Storage Configuration for a Low-Power Server

    Hi Guys, Soon I want to build a Low-Power Server with one of those Erying Motherboards. Since I live in Germany and Energy is expensive here, I'm kind of compromised in the Storage Setup. This Setup is only used for an SMB Share that's connected via a 10Gig SFP+ Card. I will add a list at the...
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    Priority Between Multiple Backup Storage Locations

    On my PVE I had 2 backup storage locations defined, pbs1 and pbs-offsite1 (which is a remote that syncs from pbs1). The reason for this configurations is for the case where the primary backup server was unavailable, or if backups had been deleted from it, they could still be restored from the...
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    NAS VM set up - To disk passthrough or not? Trim?

    Hi all, I have a build using standard PC parts, and one of my VMs is OpenMediaVault NAS OS. Storage wise I currently have: 1st NVMe - Proxmox OS. Passed through to NAS from mobo SATA ports (using Passthrough Physical Disk to Virtual Machine (VM) 2nd NVMe 1st SSD 2nd SSD 1st HDD There are a...
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    ZFS Storage Problem - Snapshots

    Hello everybody! I have a problem with my second hard drive in Proxmox. This is not displayed correctly in my opinion. As you can see in the pictures, the free space varies between 300GB and 600GB. On the hard disk there are two VMs which have 1x500GB and 1x64GB + 1x snapshot. Due to my storage...
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    pvs shows as full

    After failed cloning of a vm I've noticed that sda3 shows as full. root@test:~# pvs PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/sda3 pve lvm2 a-- <930.98g <16.00g root@test:~# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 931.48 GiB, 1000171331584 bytes, 1953459632 sectors Disk model: LOGICAL VOLUME...
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    Trim/Discard nachträglich aktivieren

    Ist es möglich die Discard/trim Funktion nachträglich laufen zu lassen? Ich habe ein paar VMs (Ubuntu server 20) bei denen discard ursprünglich nicht aktiviert wurde und nun unnötig viel Speicher verschwendet wird. Ich hab discard nun nachträglich aktiviert (und qemu guest agent installiert)...
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    in pickle with storage remount

    Hello im in a big pickle i created another /mnt/data folder and my old storage where all my stuff was stored just vanished and my new sdc overtook it. the old files are possibly stored in the sdb disk any chance that i can remount it or just restore it with out any hussle and yeah i realized my...
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    Storage setup confussion for VMs and Xpenology pass through

    Good afternoon.. I have finally installed Proxmox and below is my config: Intel 12th gen 12700K Asus Z690 D4 64GB RAM non-ECC Dell PERC H330 (Flashed to IT mode for passthrough). 120GB SSD Samsung 830 for Proxmox boot drive. 3 X 18TB 3 X 16TB 2 X 1TB SN850 NVME My plan is to have Proxmox...
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    Ceph HCI - loaker Zugriff?

    hi folks, habe bloß mal schnell 'ne Frage zu ceph, wenn man 3 Node Proxmox als HCI betreibt mit Mirror 3.. Alle Knoten beherbergen ja immer alle Daten lokal. Man nutzt das RBD Device. Man brauch ja beim Einrichten des Storage keine Monitore angeben, weil Proxmox prüft, ob HCI da ist, und alles...
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    Storage optimieren

    hallo forum und staff, wenn ich eine Umgebung habe, wo ich ausschließlich VMs mit dem PBS sichere, wäre es dann nicht sinnvoll eine Blockgröße von 4MB für das Filesystem des Datastore zu konfigurieren, da ja die chunks alle 4 MB groß sind? Im Forum habe ich bereits einen Wert von 1 MB als...
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    Remove 'local' directory to free space

    Hi! I installed Proxmox on an Nvme and I will be using a Hdd to store backups, iso, etc and thus I don't want to waste 100GB of expensive space with the 'local' directory. From what I read it cannot be deleted because it's recreated immediately. I couldn't find much information about this...
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    Festplatten von Thick in Thin umwandeln

    Hallo Zusammen, ich bin absoluter Neuling im Proxmox Umfeld. Hab einen Host und einen lokaeln zfspool. Hab 5 Linux VMs deployed für verschiedene Dienste. Jetzt ist mir aufgefallen, dass der Speicherplatz schon relativ schnell belegt wurde. Mein Fehler: Hatte unter Storage - zfspool den Haken...

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