Could not activate storage 'local-zfs',

[DaleHutch]

Greetings,
I've got an issue that is probably a frequent "newbie" error. I have two proxmox servers. I create a cluster. Everything joined fine. But not really. On my second node "pve2" the local-zfs has a gray question mark now. When I click of it the summary is blank and when I click on VM Disks I see this error "could not activate storage 'local-zfs', zfs error: cannot import 'rpool': no such pool available (500)" from what I have gathered both servers have a "rpool" and there can only be one? How can I get pve2 to change the local-zfs to a different "rpool"? Like rpool2 so it can load? Or am I going about this wrong?

Any help is much appreciated!

 

[DaleHutch]

Well... I think I solved my problem. I looked in the Datacenter storage and can see the local-zfs but it was not restricted to the right PVE. I restricted it to PVE1 (where it is) and it disappeared from PVE2.

 

[UdoB]

Please note that for replication you need to have the same pool on all relevant nodes.

 

[arghdubya]

old thread but this helped with my problem.
newly joined node in cluster could not restore a VM backup to it. (going LVM -> ZFS)
I could not get local-zfs storage to show in drop-down.

everything looked fine, enabled in GUI, etc. but
root@asrock11:~# pvesm status
....
local-zfs zfspool disabled ....

went into Datacenter Storage, Edit local-zfs and select/enable this node in Node list.
It appears that if you customize this list in the past, it'll of course fail-secure and not acknowledge new nodes.
I think if there are restrictions on a storage class it should reflect that in the GUI in the Enabled Column or a Restricted column with Yes