I am planning to add an SSD to one of my Proxmox hosts, so it will better cope with the high IO demand imposed by several VM's.
First I thought of reinstalling Proxmox over the SSD, but I quickly realized that during installation unnecessarily large partitions are created (like /dev/pve/root) which I want to avoid (as SSD's are very expensive I'd like to be able to use their full capacity for my virtual machines).
So my question is this: how can I mount an SSD under a running Proxmox system for VM data only?
- Is it enough to mount it under /var/lib/vz? (The name of the data partition is /dev/mapper/pve-data, so I suspect not)
- Does LVM need to be setup so the snapshot backup would work?
- Do I need to stop any daemons while mounting?
First I thought of reinstalling Proxmox over the SSD, but I quickly realized that during installation unnecessarily large partitions are created (like /dev/pve/root) which I want to avoid (as SSD's are very expensive I'd like to be able to use their full capacity for my virtual machines).
So my question is this: how can I mount an SSD under a running Proxmox system for VM data only?
- Is it enough to mount it under /var/lib/vz? (The name of the data partition is /dev/mapper/pve-data, so I suspect not)
- Does LVM need to be setup so the snapshot backup would work?
- Do I need to stop any daemons while mounting?
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