Brand new to proxmox

[DAXQ]

I am testing out ProxMox (currently use VMWare) and wanted to set up a small utility server to see what ProxMox had to offer. Anyway, I have installed and booted the software and so far it looks promising. However I am not sure how to add my second harddrive for VM storage. I have a HP ML370 G6 using a smart P410i. I created 1 mirrored drive for the OS and ISO's etc... 136G and a second Raid 5 drive with 683GB of storage formy VM's. In VMWare I would have just added the storage, but I not being able to figure it out with ProxMox.

I can see the drive via SSH to the server via fdisk -l

root@proxmox:~# fdisk -l


Disk /dev/sda: 146.8 GB, 146778685440 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 17844 cylinders, total 286677120 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0002957a


Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 1048575 523264 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1048576 286676991 142814208 8e Linux LVM


Disk /dev/sdb: 733.9 GB, 733909245952 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 89226 cylinders, total 1433416496 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000


Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

Do I just create a partition and mount it some where on the server? Or is there a "ProxMox" way to do it via the Web Interface so that I can run snapshots etc...?

Thanks in advance. Also finding the Subscription thing a bit confusing, can I continue to run it with out the subscription? or will I eventually have to get one of some kind?

 

[wahmed]

You can certainly add the Local drives with Proxmox through WebGUI so long the drives are formatted and mounted such as /mnt/pve/<new drive>.
By default the local directory that is connected with Proxmox is at /var/lib/vz. After you have mounted your hdd into OS, simply goto WebGUI>Storage>Add and select Directory. Then simply enter the mounted location and give it a name. Thats it.

 

[udo]

You can certainly add the Local drives with Proxmox through WebGUI so long the drives are formatted and mounted such as /mnt/pve/<new drive>.
By default the local directory that is connected with Proxmox is at /var/lib/vz. After you have mounted your hdd into OS, simply goto WebGUI>Storage>Add and select Directory. Then simply enter the mounted location and give it a name. Thats it.

Hi,
additional to symmcom solution, you can use the storage as lvm-storage. If the storage is internal (I guess so), you can also use the storage for drbd (with lvm on top of drbd).
With an second node, you can use the drbd-storage from both nodes for live-migration.

see also here: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage_Model
http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/DRBD

Udo

 

[DAXQ]

Sorry it has taken me this long to get back to this thread! And thanks for the great replies, so I understand that I can just create a partition and mount the drive as normal in a Linux system - then I would use the web interface to add it as storage via the Directory. Are there any recommendations to a file system to use? Is any one better than the other specifically for use with ProxMox? or should I just use ESX4?

 

[DAXQ]

Not sure I follow the suggestions here, I will check out the links and see if I can make better sense of it.

 

[wahmed]

Sorry it has taken me this long to get back to this thread! And thanks for the great replies, so I understand that I can just create a partition and mount the drive as normal in a Linux system - then I would use the web interface to add it as storage via the Directory. [/QOUTE]
Yes. Thats exactly right. This is pretty much how local storages are assigned to be used with Proxmox.

Are there any recommendations to a file system to use? Is any one better than the other specifically for use with ProxMox? or should I just use ESX4?

Are you asking recommendations for file system like ext4, btrfs, xfs etc? ext4 is very very stable. btrfs might be the future but not quite stable for production use. It got rare occational glitches.

If you are asking recommendations for shared storage then you got few choices depending on nature of your need. There are GlusterFS, DRBD, FreeNAS and my personal favorite CEPH. FreeNAS, Gluster, DRBD are relatively easy to setup with just 1 o 2 nodes. CEPH however needs more than 2 nodes to fully utilize its potential due to its distributed storage system nature. All sort of depends on your needs.


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