Can't create VM - Storage not available

[prtomasi]

Hi,

I'm trying to create a new VM, when Hard Disk tab is shown, Storage dropdown doesn't show any storage available:



Can you help me about this issue?

Thanks!

 

[ph0x]

You probably haven't added a storage which holds VM disk images.

 

[prtomasi]

Very strange because I already have 8 VM running

This is my storage configured (Datacenter > Storage):



And these are the disks in pv0 > Disks:



But, I don't know why they're not being shown anymore when I try to create a new VM

Which shell commands could I try to troubleshoot Disk issues?

Thanks!

 

[ph0x]

That's indeed strange. But that is no disk issue, the storage entry would show up anyway. You could try to create the VM via command line and see if there's an error message when you declare the storage to be used.

 

[dcsapak]

does the command 'pvesm status' give any error message ?

 

[wits-zach]

Running into a similar issue. I'm seeing that no one responded to this, but I ran 'pvesm status' to try to keep this going:

1. Only error was that some .vg files were not found.
2. All other storage was listed correctly.

Just highlighting that this behavior is being observed by others too: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/cant-create-new-vms.89373/

Any suggestions?

 

[dcsapak]

Any suggestions?

can you post the complete output of the 'pvesm status' as well as the storage config (/etc/pve/storage.cfg)

 

[wits-zach]

pvesm status

root@prxmox:~# pvesm status
Name Type Status Total Used Available %
Store1 nfs active 38193152 49152 36173824 0.13%
Data1 nfs active 959853568 509200384 401825792 53.05%
Store2 nfs active 38193152 49152 36173824 0.13%
Data2 nfs active 2882684928 592667648 2143514624 20.56%
Data3 nfs active 1921270784 77824 1823527936 0.00%
Core zfs active 10486185356 2221418647 8264766709 21.18%
local dir active 28510260 5936128 21102852 20.82%
local-lvm lvmthin active 62562304 0 62562304 0.00%

root@prxmox:~# cat /etc/pve/storage.cfg

dir: local
        path /var/lib/vz
        content backup,vztmpl,iso

lvmthin: local-lvm
        thinpool data
        vgname pve
        content rootdir,images

nfs: Data1
        export /Data1
        path /mnt/pve/Data1
        server 10.0.8.125
        content backup,vztmpl,snippets,iso,rootdir,images
        maxfiles 1

nfs: Data2
        export /Data2
        path /mnt/pve/
        server 10.0.8.125
        content backup,rootdir,images,vztmpl,iso
        maxfiles 1

nfs: Data3
        export /Data3
        path /mnt/pve/Data3
        server 10.0.8.125
        content backup,snippets,vztmpl,iso,rootdir,images
        maxfiles 1

nfs: Store1
        export /Store1
        path /mnt/pve/Store1
        server 10.0.8.129
        content vztmpl,snippets,iso,rootdir,images,backup
        maxfiles 1

nfs: Store2
        export /Store2
        path /mnt/pve/Store2
        server 10.0.8.129
        content backup,iso,snippets,vztmpl,images,rootdir
        maxfiles 1

zfs: Core
        blocksize 4k
        iscsiprovider freenas
        pool Core
        portal 10.0.8.129
        target iqn.core.com.freenas.ctl:core
        content images
        freenas_apiv4_host 10.0.9.32
        freenas_password <redacted>
        freenas_use_ssl 1
        freenas_user <redacted>
        nowritecache 1
        sparse 0

 

[wits-zach]

I would also like to point out that I am no longer experiencing the issue now that I have done what I wrote up here (cleared out the excessive inode usage):

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/excessive-inode-consumption-and-etc-lvm-archive.91868/

Is it possible that the lack of inodes available to the filesystem was resulting in storage not being accessible in the web UI?

 

[ph0x]

Definitely