Clustering and local storage misunderstanding

[tlex]

I started playing with clustering and my goal is to replicate vms from one node to another while keeping the replicated vm shutdown until needed. No HA here for now. I understand that NFS / ISCSI accessible storages might be required to do so but I'm not there yet since both nodes are using local ZFS storages. What I don't understand at this point is how the local storages are represented in the gui and generated.
For some reason, some local storages from node1 are also represented in node2 (USB_backup for exemple). This is a bit confusing and I made sure the "share" checkbox wasn't enabled when adding that storage. So, why when creating a new storage without checking the shared button will create the "equivalent" storage (and directory structure) in the second node ?
The case of the USB_BACKUPS storage is a directory storage mounted on /backup in node1 where I mount an external disk to make some vm backups.
Is there anyway to create directory storage that will be only visible from one node ?

 

[fiona]

Hi,
this is because often you'll have a storage with the same settings on different nodes, e.g. required for ZFS replication. If a storage is not available on all nodes, use the Nodes option to restrict it. Enabled shared means that Proxmox VE treats the storage as shared, but it's up to you to ensure that it's actually shared (e.g. useful when a directory resides on a network mount).