Hello,
I use Proxmox in cluster configuration and use DRBD (poor man's shared storage) to use live migration feature (I use KVM).
In fact, the VM images are stored on LVM VG, not on "real" file system, so I just can not create disk image of type different from "raw". Lack of filesystem is something I don't like, these raw VM images are big, are hard to backup from CLI - so I decided to use filesystem over VG over DRBD.
I've just set up that scheme, and it works fine (why shouldn't it?) but what I doubt is that VG over DRBD scheme is something that recommended by Proxmox wiki, so may it be that I missed something about using filesystem on top of VG?
By the way, I need to deploy VM which image is .vmdk file (VMWare). I believe .qcow2 format is better and also more native for KVM. Should I convert vmdk to qcow2, or use it as is?
I use Proxmox in cluster configuration and use DRBD (poor man's shared storage) to use live migration feature (I use KVM).
In fact, the VM images are stored on LVM VG, not on "real" file system, so I just can not create disk image of type different from "raw". Lack of filesystem is something I don't like, these raw VM images are big, are hard to backup from CLI - so I decided to use filesystem over VG over DRBD.
I've just set up that scheme, and it works fine (why shouldn't it?) but what I doubt is that VG over DRBD scheme is something that recommended by Proxmox wiki, so may it be that I missed something about using filesystem on top of VG?
By the way, I need to deploy VM which image is .vmdk file (VMWare). I believe .qcow2 format is better and also more native for KVM. Should I convert vmdk to qcow2, or use it as is?