Advice needed to replace dead HD on proxmox V8

[sbs]

Hi,

One of the drive has gone dead. SMART is in failed state, any disk operation fills the logs with errors, and slows everything down.
This is not a system disk. The VM using this disk is stopped pending restore.

Disk has just 1 LVM 8T partition, and will be replaced with a bigger disk.

Is there a restart/reinstall procedure so that the replacement disk can be reconfigured as the previous drive? Or should I just remove the old drive, install the new one and add a new lvm in proxmox with the same size as the original one?

 

[gfngfn256]

Disk has just 1 LVM 8T partition

How was this disk setup in PVE. What is its storage.cfg details? Was anything else excepting the above-mentioned VM using it?

But in principal if the old disk is dead - just remove it & put the new one in, setup the desired storage configuration for that disk in PVE, & restore the VM (from restorable backup that I assume you have) to that newly created storage.

I assume from your post the disk is not part of a raid array/ZFS etc. That would be a different story.

 

[sbs]

How was this disk setup in PVE. What is its storage.cfg details? Was anything else excepting the above-mentioned VM using it?

Not sure, I used the "add lvm" from the proxmox gui to create a lvm on the disk.
Nothing else on this partition except for that one VM.

But in principal if the old disk is dead - just remove it & put the new one in, setup the desired storage configuration for that disk in PVE, & restore the VM (from restorable backup that I assume you have) to that newly created storage.

Ok I will try that. Thank you.

I assume from your post the disk is not part of a raid array/ZFS etc. That would be a different story.

Yes, it is a simple setup.

 

[Kingneutron]

If you don't need to partition or resize it, LVM is overkill. Just make 1 partition on the replacement disk and format it with XFS to keep it simple