[SOLVED] Datacenter / Storage - create ISO image on ZFS drive

[DavidBoo]

So I've 3* 500GB SSD configured as a logical volume via my disk controller - so proxmox only see's 1.5TB SSD storage as local /local-lvm
I also have a single Spinny_disk (old 1TB drive I had in a drawer). The purpose of the question is to understand how to hold the ISO images on the slow drive and then keep enough fast space for VM's on the SSD. This is a fresh install and upgrade of ProxMox 8.2.2 - so not even a VM on it yet - so we're good to flatten anything and start again if required.

I downloaded a test ISO file and it went into - - - /var/lib/vz/template/iso .... all good.

I mv'ed (via the shell) the ISO to the zfs formatted drive called Spinny_disk
root@dellpve:/Spinny_disk/iso# ls -l
total 4806617
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5044094976 Mar 16 2022 SERVER_EVAL_x64FRE_en-us.iso

What I don't understand is "local" has the option to add a "ISO image" option - but I can only create disk image,Container on Spinny_disk
I can edit local and remove "ISO Image" ..but not add on Spinny_disk

so when creating a test VM - there is no ISO image to open (as expected) as ProxMox doesn't know where I've moved the ISO's



I'd appreciate it if someone who understands this better than me could explain what i'm doing wrong and point me in the right direction..
Thanks for looking...
David.

 

[bbgeek17]

If you compare the two strings in the "Content" column, you will see "ISO image" as allowed content on "local" and no such tag on "spinny_disk".
You need to do two things:
a) edit the storage pool configuration and check-mark "ISO image"
b) create appropriate directory structure

good luck

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[DavidBoo]

Thanks for the pointer - I've created and moved the iso to /Spinney_disk/template/iso

root@dellpve:/# ls /Spinny_disk/template/iso/
SERVER_EVAL_x64FRE_en-us.iso
root@dellpve:/#

Even if I remove the ISO image from Local (which you can just make out in the screenshot below) I still don't see under - edit: ZFS / content - anything else part from Disk image, Container

Should I kill the disk and re-format as EXT4 and then mount it - or should a single ZFS disk just work ?

 

[DavidBoo]

solved - https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/c...orage-shows-up-for-option.119672/#post-519377
you need to create a dataset...
and then the ISO option appears !!.

 

[bbgeek17]

Your storage is a ZFS_POOL, that means its a block pool. The ISO can not be stored in a block pool, they need a filesystem. Dataset is a slice of a pool that represents a filesystem.
Good job

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