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    Change the name of an LVM storage

    Hello I wanted to test a procedure to rename both the Volume Group, on which I created an LVM storage, and the storage itself. Specifically on an ISCSI LUN I created an LVM storage named "vg-iscsi" , then I created a VM (VM-move (200)) vgs VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree pve...
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    Stuck on Volume Group "pve" using metadata type lvm2

    after installing proxmox for the first time, and going through the system reboot, Proxmox gets stuck on this screen: FOUND VOLUME GROUP PVE using metadata type lvm2 3 LOGICAL VOLUME (S) IN VOLUME GROUP "PVE" NOW ACTIVE /DEV/MAPPER/PVE-ROOT: RECOVERING JOURNAL /DEV/MAPPER/PVE-ROOT:CLEAN...
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    Unable to power on any VM after reboot - activation of logical volume pve/data is prohibited while logical volume pve/data_tmeta is active.

    I ran an update on the Prox host and rebooted for good measure (using the non subscription repositories) After the reboot, none of my VM's will power on, they all show the error. While I can fix this by using lvchange and turning off the tmeta/tdata, the issue happens after every reboot of the...
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    [SOLVED] Accidentally deleted Volume Group. Need Help readding it

    Hello all, Dumb here! ;) Long story short, I have added a new SSD as a LVM, but I wanted to create a LVM-Thin instead. So, I migrated all my VM disks to another storage LVM, wiped the disk and created a LVM-Thin. After that, I migrated all my VMs back into the new SSD. Then, comes the GENIUS...
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    Volume group "pve" not found

    I have been using proxmox to host a home server setup for the last few months. In January I upgraded the RAM in the PC running proxmox. This caused Secure Boot to panic a bit (whoops), but after disabling Secure Boot the hardware seems fine. However, proxmox now refuses to boot but instead...
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    VGs can be seen in CLI but not in GUI?

    Hi There, Does anyone knows how to fix this, i created a VGS via CLI but can't see it in GUI? root@giant:/# vgs VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree ThickWorld 2 0 0 wz--n- 5.00t 5.00t <----------------------------------not showing in GUI???? ThinWorld 1 3 0...
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    Migrating from KVM to Proxmox - "VolGroup00 not found" and kernel panic

    Hi everyone. I'm new in the forum and very low experienced in VMs in general. I am trying to migrate an operational virtual machine running an old release of Centos (kernel 2.6.9-89 EL) in a KVM environment, to Proxmox. I took the .img file from the source server, copied in proxmox and imported...
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    best way to add different sized disks with 9305-16i hba to proxmox? disks not showing in vg

    Hey all, I played around with proxmox a bit and originally had my 6 disks which range from 1tb to 2tb to 10tb directly connected to the motherboards sata ports, and I was able to create vg's with said disks, in the gui it says " vgcreate sda /dev/sda error: Run `vgcreate --help' for more...
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    [SOLVED] Can't create lvm volume group

    Hello, I have installed a new node, i have 4 x 1,92TB SSD in hardware RAID10.. i will create now a new LVM Volume group in Proxmox. but get the follow error: command '/sbin/pvs --separator : --noheadings --units k --unbuffered --nosuffix --options pv_name,pv_size,vg_name,pv_uuid /dev/sdb'...
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    [SOLVED] Removing old Storage from GUI

    Hey guys! I'm still getting used to Proxmox, but so far it's been amazing! Since I'm still getting hands-on learning about the product, naturally I've been playing around with storage configurations. I've created some lvm/lvm-thin volume groups, but they were temporary, and I now wish to...
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    No such volume group after clustering 2 servers.

    Hello Proxmox Community, I'm new to Proxmox and the QEMU virtualization software, so please excuse anything that may seem a bit stupid lol, I've recently clustered my 2 servers for easy management, the host node, aka the owner of the cluster is having issues when it comes to creating virtual...
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    Increase lvm thin what about metadata.

    Hi ! Proxmox is great and i'm pretty new with this mix of technologies. LVM is extremely powerful and i need to deal with it to increase , wisely , a thin pool without breaking anything. Here is the situation. I plan to enlarge a partition by 2TB. I need to increase the thin pool used by...
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    [SOLVED] Storage status unknown

    I have 2 identical servers that I have install promox on. After fresh install of proxmox, I created the local storage on each server and then proceeded to join the hosts to a single cluster. However, I noticed that the volume group that I created on "maryland" shows the wrong label and has a...
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    [SOLVED] Volume Group not activated after the node reboot

    Hello! I experience a weird issue on Proxmox 6.1. I've added a storage as LVM-thin. The container storage was created on this storage. After the machine is rebooted, the storage showed as 0% usage and the container would not launch. After debugging this issue for quite some time I've noticed...
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    LVM Partition's emty using iSCSI

    Hi Everyone, I have a serious problem, we installed a SAN for 3 nodes FUJITSU 2540 and 1 Stocking Harbor, I created 2 LVMs partitions on Stocking (SAN_VM for VMs and SAN_BACKUP for BACKUP), all Disks of VMs are stored on SAN_VM. today, after a power failure, I restarted the elements of our SAN...
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    Issue with incorrect cfs lock

    Hi everyone, I've been exploring Proxmox for the first time over the last 2 weeks. Overall looks a very promising but I have to be honest, I hate the storage management with a passion, what a mess. I want to deploy a Linux Container on top of a iSCSI disk, never used Linux Containers so don't...
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    [SOLVED] VG-PV from VM visible on PVE / Volume Communication Failure

    Hello, Following the creation of two VM (263 and 264) and the addition of disk, these two disks are now as PV and VG on the nodes: This has been a problem loading volumes on PVE and migrate disk: But VM working Here are the commands launched on the VM to integrate the disks: 220...
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    Replaced HDD - Resize VG

    Hello, my server is using a raid1 with 2 x 2 TB HDDs. Originally, proxmox was installed on 2 x 320G HDDs with raid1, but one HDD crashed and i have replaced both hdds with 2 x 2 TB hdds (i have cloned the date with dd). The system is up and running since more than a year but now i have a...
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    vgreduce PVE

    Hello, I'm using Proxmox 5.1 and I want to remove /dev/sdc1 from VG pve to assign it to a other VG. PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/sda3 pve lvm2 a-- 3.64t 15.77g /dev/sdc1 pve lvm2 a-- 1.23t 0 when I try a 'vgreduce pve /dev/sdc1' the answer is ' Physical volume...
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    [SOLVED] Renaming of VG and LV

    Hi, yesterday I renamed a VG and a corresponding LV. While doing so I did not think about the linked VMs which are having their disks lying on the LV. Now they woun't boot up with the following message: kvm: -drive...

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