Hard disk management on new installation

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fedex03

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Hello everyone,

today for the first time I installed Proxmox on the server “ProLiant DL360 Gen9”. All the Proxmox installations I have done so far were on home PCs.

Everything went well though I'm still left with doubts about disk partitioning.
As you can see from the picture, in the 20 Gb “sda” disk I installed Proxmox.
Instead “sdb” is a raid of 8 disks (I have to figure out if the raid is already configured, I think so because before on the server there was ESXi).

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Currently the server has:
  • one 8.94 Gb “local” disk.
  • one 7.04 Gb “local-lvm” disk.

I would like to remove these two volumes and extend the system partition and create these two volumes again within “sdb”.

I tried in do you install Proxmox to partition the disks but the setup only gave me the option to choose which disk to use and I chose the first 20 Gb one.

How do you recommend that I proceed?

Thank you all for the help!
 
If you select sdb1 you can use the Wipe Disk button to erase its contents.

If you're using hardware RAID, don't use ZFS, it's not compatible.

If RAID wasn't already configured you would probably see the 8 individual drives.
 
SteveITS said:
If you select sdb1 you can use the Wipe Disk button to erase its contents.

If you're using hardware RAID, don't use ZFS, it's not compatible.

If RAID wasn't already configured you would probably see the 8 individual drives.
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Thanks for the reply, I agree with you. Since I see "sdb" logical volume I suppose the RAID is managed by the HW.

Is it possible to delete the existing "local" and "local-lvm" from "sda"?
 
fedex03 said:
Is it possible to delete the existing "local" and "local-lvm" from "sda"?
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I'd found a few threads on that when I was testing. These might help? Or similar searches.

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Thread 'How to increase storage on local/root/pve-root?'

I mounted a directory from Proxmox on multiple LXC containers. This might not be the proper way to share common storage, but it’s the only method I managed to get working.

The issue is that the 100 GiB allocated to the local storage is now almost full, and I can’t figure out how to add more space, despite having over 1.5 TiB free on my SSD.

I believe the following information might help you assist me:
1737760657243.png

Thank you to anyone who take the time to assist me.
J

Thread 'how to resize local storage'

Hello,

How can i resize my local storage of pve (root), to a bigger size.
From attached screenshot, i want to add space on local (pve-01), which has a space of 109.74GiB and increase to a higher space.


Regards,

Janvier R.
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Essentially, delete the partition and make root bigger.

Or you can reinstall and use ext4 or something instead of LVM. By default Proxmox assumes you will be storing VMs on the (only) disk.
 
SteveITS said:
I'd found a few threads on that when I was testing. These might help? Or similar searches.

F

Thread 'How to increase storage on local/root/pve-root?'

I mounted a directory from Proxmox on multiple LXC containers. This might not be the proper way to share common storage, but it’s the only method I managed to get working.

The issue is that the 100 GiB allocated to the local storage is now almost full, and I can’t figure out how to add more space, despite having over 1.5 TiB free on my SSD.

I believe the following information might help you assist me:
1737760657243.png

Thank you to anyone who take the time to assist me.
J

Thread 'how to resize local storage'

Hello,

How can i resize my local storage of pve (root), to a bigger size.
From attached screenshot, i want to add space on local (pve-01), which has a space of 109.74GiB and increase to a higher space.


Regards,

Janvier R.
  • Like

Essentially, delete the partition and make root bigger.

Or you can reinstall and use ext4 or something instead of LVM. By default Proxmox assumes you will be storing VMs on the (only) disk.
Click to expand...

I removed the local volume following this post.

How I can create a new storage for the "Image" and one for the VM and LXC Data?

Thanks
 
Hi there,

my storage situation is now the seguent:

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I think it is fine.

On the storage, I can only store "Disk Image and Cointainer".

I can I store backups, ISO and Template on this volume?

Thank you in advance for your support.
 
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