Adding additional Storage to Proxmox VE

[arstacey]

I have a whitebox computer that I am trying to install proxmox-ve on and am running into trouble with the storage. The motherboard is an Intel BOXDQ45CB which has an onboard RAID controller. I have two WD Black 1TB Drives.

I set the drives in a raid 0 array at 1.81TB but when I booted the proxmox cd, it didn't see the array, just two independent drives. If I install to either one, the boot fails. I broke the array so the drives are again single drives and installed proxmox to sda (it saw both sda ad sdb) but when I browse to the web manager only the first drive is listed. The other hard drive is not there and I cannot find where to add it, or to even add usb external drives. How can I add additional drives to an existing installation?

 

[dietmar]

I have a whitebox computer that I am trying to install proxmox-ve on and am running into trouble with the storage. The motherboard is an Intel BOXDQ45CB which has an onboard RAID controller.

The RAID controller is most likely no real raid controller (fake raid)? We do not support software RAID.

 

[arstacey]

Ok, I do believe it is a software raid so how can I add additional non-raid drives? I have two hard drives in the system but it only sees one. They are not currently in a raid array. Just two separate drives. In addition, can I add external usb or esata drives?

 

[udo]

Ok, I do believe it is a software raid so how can I add additional non-raid drives? I have two hard drives in the system but it only sees one. They are not currently in a raid array. Just two separate drives. In addition, can I add external usb or esata drives?

Hi,
you see only one drive?
Try

fdisk -l

ignore the output of dm... if you had two disks, you must see something like sda and sdb?? This are your disks!
sda is used by the pve installation ( look with "pvdisplay", "vgdisplay" and "lvdisplay").

Udo

 

[arstacey]

Yes, fdisk -l shows both sda and sdb but when I go to the web interface for proxmox, I only see one disk.