How to upload 500GB to local-lvm to convert

[itsupport.engineer]

Hi Everyone,

I am new to Proxmox having been used to vmware before. I need to convert some 500GB vmware disks to proxmox raw disks. This seems easy enough however I simply cannot find a way to upload a 500GB file into the proxmox file system. Only the local appears to be mounted at that is on 100GB whilst my local-lvm is 3TB so enough for the old vmdk disk and the converted raw disk but I cannot find a way to acccess it.

Can someone point me in the right direction please. I have the feeling I am missing something obvious.

Thanks

Stephen

 

[fiona]

Hi,
because there is no filesystem on local-lvm, you cannot just upload files there. What you can do is (temporarily) create a new logical volume, create a filesystem on top of that and add that filesystem as a directory storage to PVE. Or you can do the same with an external drive. Afterwards you can move/convert the image to a raw image on local-lvm. Finally you can remove the temporary storage again.