Custom LVM Partitioning

[Andr0meda]

Hello everyone. I'm quite new to proxmox but consider myself fairly adept in linux, but I can't get my head wrapped around how the LVM partitioning scheme works. Long story short: what I'm trying to accomplish is have a 30~ GB disk for the ProxMox server itself to run on, system critical applications, security etc. Secondly, an addition of an extra hard drive split in LVM into 3 Logical Volumes, say 100 GB for ISO images/etc, 500 GB for on-site Backup and 1 TB for the VM's disk and system space.

I thought that I'd configured everything correctly and mounted my volumes according to various recommendations attempting to copy the hierarchy of the default system, but every time I uploaded an image to the primary server, even after confirming it's existence both on the UI and in the Console, could not get it to show up when attempting to create a container.

Can ProxMox accomplish this? Because I'm having a very hard time figuring out how this is done.

 

[udo]

Hello everyone. I'm quite new to proxmox but consider myself fairly adept in linux, but I can't get my head wrapped around how the LVM partitioning scheme works. Long story short: what I'm trying to accomplish is have a 30~ GB disk for the ProxMox server itself to run on, system critical applications, security etc. Secondly, an addition of an extra hard drive split in LVM into 3 Logical Volumes, say 100 GB for ISO images/etc, 500 GB for on-site Backup and 1 TB for the VM's disk and system space.

Hi,
you know, that an backup on the same disk like the VMs aren't an backup?!

I thought that I'd configured everything correctly and mounted my volumes according to various recommendations attempting to copy the hierarchy of the default system,

copy the hierachy??
If you define your storage as filesystem, pve create the needed hierachy (images if you select the type images and dump if you select backup, and so on).

but every time I uploaded an image to the primary server, even after confirming it's existence both on the UI and in the Console, could not get it to show up when attempting to create a container.

Can ProxMox accomplish this? Because I'm having a very hard time figuring out how this is done.

Do you know this? https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage

Udo

 

[Andr0meda]

I have tried creating the same hierarchy through LVM, mounting them to the default system dirs that it initially uses, and unchecked all default storage. ISO files uploaded to the server show up on the system on console and on the web UI, but does not allow me to select said image when creating a container. Thank you Udu for your input. A backup that is located on the local machine is what's known as an "on-site backup". I'll be using a separate hard drive for those.