Hard Drive question

[kevinb]

Hey all, I have a question regarding hard drives. I have 4 drives in my system. I have 1 that proxmox itself is installed on that shows up as "local" in the storage config. I also created an LVM from 2 drives to store the VM's on with a content type of "Virtual Disk". I want to use the last drive to store all the ISO images used to install in a VM. However, if I create another LVM it wont allow a content type other that virtual disk. It seems the only storage type that will allow me to set a content of "ISO" is a directory type. How can I make the last drive appear and be usable to store the ISO's in proxmox? I'm sure this is something simple and stupid but I'm missing it here. I would appreciate any help. Thanks!

Kevin

 

[screenie]

in your harddisk setup you have no fault tolerance, so if you have 4 identical drives and a hardware raid-controller the proxmox recommendation is a raid10;
anyway, back to your question - you can mount the lvol directly into /var/lib/vz/template or to another location via fstab and define it as storage directory or symlink to it....

screenie

 

[kevinb]

Thanks screenie. I'll see what I can figure out. I'm relatively new to proxmox/volume management. I read that about raid 10 in the wiki but unfortunately they are not the same. One is a 500gig EIDE, which houses the OS, 2-1TB SATA drives that comprise my LVM for my virtual machines, and a 500gig SATA that is the one I want to put my ISO's on.

Kevin