Additional storage

[iron]

Hi guys,
Excellent product .I just wanted to know whether we can add external storage.For example I have installed Proxmox in IBM blade server and the the harddisk size is just150GB .And configuration in 32 GB RAM 8x3.2Ghz.We where first planning to install Vmware ESX server and I convinced them to go with Proxmox.Now the issue is that I want all my virtual machines to be stored in san.And I also want to whether we can change the storage location.for example right now all our vm are getting stored in /var/lib/vz to /data.

Once again great product keep the good work going

Regards
IRON

 

[tom]

Hi guys,
Excellent product .I just wanted to know whether we can add external storage.For example I have installed Proxmox in IBM blade server and the the harddisk size is just150GB .And configuration in 32 GB RAM 8x3.2Ghz.We where first planning to install Vmware ESX server and I convinced them to go with Proxmox.Now the issue is that I want all my virtual machines to be stored in san.And I also want to whether we can change the storage location.for example right now all our vm are getting stored in /var/lib/vz to /data.

Once again great product keep the good work going

Regards
IRON

See roadmap - we just finished the move to Lenny and the next step is the flexible storage which you need here. I hope we got the first results in one or two months from now, hopefully.

In the meantime you can use local storage (or do a custom configuration).

 

[iron]

Great

 

[wnpaul]

I suppose by "do a custom configuration" you mean go into the installed Proxmox server, add your storage, and then mount it where PVE expects to find its local storage?

 

[iron]

How to do we configure that

 

[wnpaul]

I suppose if all VMs are stored in /var/lib/vz, and you had a separate hard disk or partition for the purpose of storing the VMs, you could just mount that disk or partition as /var/lib/vz instead of as /data -- having first mounted it somewhere else and copied the original contents of /var/lib/vz to it.

In a similar fashion another disk or disk partition could be mounted on the directory where the KVM VMs are stored, and bingo: more disk space.

Should that work?

 

[wnpaul]

Actually just tried this and it works. You have to also unmount the device mounted on /var/lib/vz by default after copying the data to your external disk.

And make sure you stop all the VMs before copying and changing the mounts or you will run into some snags.

 

[petem]

Excellent..!! i am testing proxmox out and needed to test this type of setup out...

i use ESX 3 currently... and have a ZFS storage server setup for the Vm's.. i want to use the ZFS storage for the proxmox Vm's aswell...

i have to agree... this is a great product from what i am seeing so far.. adding the capability to add external storage sources in the web management interface would be a GREAT addition and would bring it closer to ESX in it configuration capabilities (GUI wise)... by no means is not having this a deal breaker since it seems this can be done at the console.. but for the admins who may not be comfertable in the command line, it would certainly help...

 

[iron]

Thanx now I get it.