instalation PBS via FC

[Aibek Mukushev]

Good afternoon everyone.
Encountered difficulties in deploying PBS. The situation is this: We purchased 3 servers, two storage systems and two copper switches and two SAN switches. Two servers operate in a cluster organizing a virtual site with a storage system connected via FC for the functioning of the virtual site. I can’t figure out the second task, namely, I need to deploy PBS to a third server.
What was done:
- installation of PVE on the third server (updating packages)
- lun presentation for a given host from the second storage system
- multipathing settings
- creating a virtual machine on this host for PBS deployment.
On the PVE host, the presented lun is visible and it is possible to operate with it. But I can’t create a backup datastore with this lun on a PBS VM. Please tell me how to do this

 

[cheiss]

Hi,

- creating a virtual machine on this host for PBS deployment.

esp. for production environments, we generally recommend installing PBS bare-metal instead of a VM. You can find lots of threads on the forum about the problems with that.

On the PVE host, the presented lun is visible and it is possible to operate with it. But I can’t create a backup datastore with this lun on a PBS VM. Please tell me how to do this

Since the VM is isolated from the host hardware, it cannot see devices from the host. So you need to either passthrough the actual host device (disk/FC controller) or - what I'd recommend - installing PBS directly on the machine if possible.

 

[VictorSTS]

- creating a virtual machine on this host for PBS deployment.

Don't do that, doesn't make sense in that kind of deployment. Install PBS alongside that PVE of the third node or even install PBS directly without PVE on that third server [1]. Then add a filesystem to that LUN, mount it and add a PBS datastore on it.

[1] https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/installation.html#install-proxmox-backup-server-on-debian

 

[Aibek Mukushev]

I did great, installed pbs on pve, added a datastore, everything worked out, very grateful, one question since my lun comes in 4 paths, do I need to add a filter to lvm.conf?