Hi,
I'm new to Proxmox, very new in fact. I just built my new file server from an AMD 2950x Threadripper on an ASROCK X399 Fatal1ty Pro Gaming mobo with 64GB DDR4-3000 RAM. My boot drive is a Samsung 960 Pro 512GB NVME, and I have two Samsung 980 Pro 1TB NVMEs I want to use as RAID 0 NVME cache. It has a Gigabyte Aorus 1080 Ti video card for video editing once I also figure out how to use nVidia's GPU boosting VM software in Proxmox.
However, I can't get far enough along to worry about how to set up VM container's or the NVME cache due to the fact that I cannot get Proxmox to even create my initial drive pool. I currently have 5x 4TB HDDs directly attached to the mobo, which has 8 SATA connections. All of the 4TB HDDs SMART reports show them to be healthy and working perfectly. In addition to these 5 4TB HDDs, I also have the remaining three mobo SATA connections filled with three (3) Samsung 860 Pro 512GB 2.5" SSDs. Finally, I have added a new 24 port SATA 16x PCIE card to add new drives as I can afford them. The new card IS installed but there are no drives currently attached to it. The card is NOT a hardware RAID controller, but it is engineered expressly for use as a soft-RAID controller card.
My planned configuration is (was) as follows:
5x 4TB HDDs set as RAIDz (4x are WD HDDS, 1x is Toshiba), which I understand to be the equivalent of RAID5.
2x 980 Pro 1TB NVMEs set as RAID0 and used as NVME cache (once I figure out how to do this that is).
3x 860 Pro 512GB SSDs set as RAID0 for doing video editing and encoding from a VE Docker container running Adobe Premier (again, once I figure out how to do this too).
Eventually the 24 port SATA card will have a full compliment of 18TB HDDs combined into a single large pool using three different pools containing eight (8) HDDs each in RAIDZ. At least, that's the plan.
The drives I currently have installed and am trying to use are shown in the attached picture 1.
The PROBLEM:
After using fdisk to ensure all the 4TB drives were clean and empty of partitions, I attempted to create the RAIDZ pool. However, the pool creation fails with the error shown in the attached picture 2.
Since Proxmox is supposedly capable of using drives of differing sizes and brands, I didn't think it would matter that one of these 4TB drives is a Toshiba while the other four are identical Western Digital drives. And it may very well have nothing to do with this error. Regardless, its a bit difficult for a newbie to Proxmox to understand exactly WHAT caused the error since the error message as displayed provides, to my eyes at least, no real information or indication of what failed or why.
I would REALLY like to get this working so I can know what to do if I encounter a similar problem later when I start adding the much larger capacity 18TB HDD pools. Can anyone offer a solution or a suggestion on where to find one so I can understand this cryptic error message and get this all working correctly?
Thank you all in advance for any suggestions/help you offer. It is appreciated.
I'm new to Proxmox, very new in fact. I just built my new file server from an AMD 2950x Threadripper on an ASROCK X399 Fatal1ty Pro Gaming mobo with 64GB DDR4-3000 RAM. My boot drive is a Samsung 960 Pro 512GB NVME, and I have two Samsung 980 Pro 1TB NVMEs I want to use as RAID 0 NVME cache. It has a Gigabyte Aorus 1080 Ti video card for video editing once I also figure out how to use nVidia's GPU boosting VM software in Proxmox.
However, I can't get far enough along to worry about how to set up VM container's or the NVME cache due to the fact that I cannot get Proxmox to even create my initial drive pool. I currently have 5x 4TB HDDs directly attached to the mobo, which has 8 SATA connections. All of the 4TB HDDs SMART reports show them to be healthy and working perfectly. In addition to these 5 4TB HDDs, I also have the remaining three mobo SATA connections filled with three (3) Samsung 860 Pro 512GB 2.5" SSDs. Finally, I have added a new 24 port SATA 16x PCIE card to add new drives as I can afford them. The new card IS installed but there are no drives currently attached to it. The card is NOT a hardware RAID controller, but it is engineered expressly for use as a soft-RAID controller card.
My planned configuration is (was) as follows:
5x 4TB HDDs set as RAIDz (4x are WD HDDS, 1x is Toshiba), which I understand to be the equivalent of RAID5.
2x 980 Pro 1TB NVMEs set as RAID0 and used as NVME cache (once I figure out how to do this that is).
3x 860 Pro 512GB SSDs set as RAID0 for doing video editing and encoding from a VE Docker container running Adobe Premier (again, once I figure out how to do this too).
Eventually the 24 port SATA card will have a full compliment of 18TB HDDs combined into a single large pool using three different pools containing eight (8) HDDs each in RAIDZ. At least, that's the plan.
The drives I currently have installed and am trying to use are shown in the attached picture 1.
The PROBLEM:
After using fdisk to ensure all the 4TB drives were clean and empty of partitions, I attempted to create the RAIDZ pool. However, the pool creation fails with the error shown in the attached picture 2.
Since Proxmox is supposedly capable of using drives of differing sizes and brands, I didn't think it would matter that one of these 4TB drives is a Toshiba while the other four are identical Western Digital drives. And it may very well have nothing to do with this error. Regardless, its a bit difficult for a newbie to Proxmox to understand exactly WHAT caused the error since the error message as displayed provides, to my eyes at least, no real information or indication of what failed or why.
I would REALLY like to get this working so I can know what to do if I encounter a similar problem later when I start adding the much larger capacity 18TB HDD pools. Can anyone offer a solution or a suggestion on where to find one so I can understand this cryptic error message and get this all working correctly?
Thank you all in advance for any suggestions/help you offer. It is appreciated.
