EXT4 filesystem under Proxmox LVM Volume Group for filesharing purpose.

[bartincom]

I'm depolying Proxmox VE 7.3-3.
Can I have your oppinion about my deployment scenario of ataching aditional hard drive to existing VM? I'm not sure it's optimal approach.

I have three SSD 980 GB drives. Two of them are working as a btrfs raid 1 pool. The third 980 GB SSD is to be working as a storage drive. It's seen in proxmox as /dev/sdc. I've already created UbuntuAD VM, which is stored on a local-btrfs. This VM's role is:

• to be Samba AD DC for Windows 10 workstations,
• to be nameserver for the DC
• to be a DHCP for local network
• To be a fileserver for Windows domain users.

For the purpose of filesharing I've created 500 GB LVM Volume Group called Dane on /dev/sdc, it look like on screen below


The next thing I've already did was to attach this drive to UbuntuVM as a hard drive.You can see it as a Hard Disk(scsi1)






On UbuntuVM the host called dc1. On dc1 host I made parted of the connected LVM (it is seen as dev/sdb in this host) with ext4 filesystem. I've added this partition to /etc/fstab to make it permanently mounted. You can see the result of parted command on the image below.

My question is this scenario of attaching hard drive for storage correct? Maybe I should do it in the different way.
Can I have your best practice suggestions?

 

[alexskysilk]

This is fine, as long as you're ok with your "dane" volume having no fault tolerance or data integrity features.

My deployment for something of this kind would be to add 2 small/cheap ssd's to install proxmox on, and then add one more 980 SSD to make a striped mirror pool for everything including your dane volume.

 

[bartincom]

This is fine, as long as you're ok with your "dane" volume having no fault tolerance or data integrity features.

My deployment for something of this kind would be to add 2 small/cheap ssd's to install proxmox on, and then add one more 980 SSD to make a striped mirror pool for everything including your dane volume.

This is fine, as long as you're ok with your "dane" volume having no fault tolerance or data integrity features.

My deployment for something of this kind would be to add 2 small/cheap ssd's to install proxmox on, and then add one more 980 SSD to make a striped mirror pool for everything including your dane volume.

Thank you. I thought about RAID10 for storage and RAID1 for Proxmox instalation from the begining, but I had only three enterprise sssd's. That is why I did this kind of setup. I'll concider your suggestion. Thanks.