Locating Data Prior to Removing VMs and Containers

[works2020]

I've been handed a Proxmox server with some configuration already on it shared to a NAS. Prior to removing the current vm's and containers I would like to confirm:

1.) where all the data is located and view if possible in it's current state.
2.) I would like to confirm the backups are current

If I understand correctly, Proxmox doesn't store data locally, like in a folder outside the VM. Rather, all data is stored within each VM or container, or linked to a NAS device and why I can't find regular data like video files when using WinSCP to view files on the Proxmox server.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Dunuin]

VMs will use block devices (or image files working as block devices) and you can't mount a blockdevice in two OSs or you will corrupt your data. So PVE itself of cause won't mount them, as then you coundn't start the VM without corrupting stuff.

If you want to know where all stuff is located you should check your VM/LXC config files in /etc/pve/lxc or /etc/pve/qemu-server. This should tell you in case disk passthrough or bind-mounts were used in wich case there could be data outside of the virtual disks.

Hard to give any specific hints on where to look for data if you don't tell us more about your storages. Alwys useful to get a overview of your storages:
lsblk
df -h
cat /etc/pve/storage.cfg
pvesm status
lvs
vgs
zpool list -v
zfs list -o space
cat /etc/fstab

 

[works2020]

Waiting to get the config file info.

Separate question, does Proxmox run well on Synology Virtual Machine Manager?

 

[Dunuin]

Separate question, does Proxmox run well on Synology Virtual Machine Manager?

You usually want to run it bare metal because otherwise you are running nested virtualization which is slower. Might be usable for LXCs but bad for VMs.