In the past, I've configured my servers with a smaller capacity Raid 1 for the Proxmox installation and used a separate larger Raid 10 array for the VMs on a LVM volume. For this build I have just one large Raid 10 and I use a tiny percentage of the array for the swap, root, and data partitions. Using the GUI, I added a LVM volume to the existing PVE group for VM storage.
Is this the appropriate way to make use of the additional disk space that was available on the array at install or should this exist on a separate volume group on a separate physical volume? I guess my question is, after the proxmox installation has finished, what's the optimum way set up the rest of the available disk space for local VM storage? It's a 3.64 TB array and only about 120GB is being used by the proxmox installation. I'd like to use the rest as a LVM volume for KVM storage.
Is this the appropriate way to make use of the additional disk space that was available on the array at install or should this exist on a separate volume group on a separate physical volume? I guess my question is, after the proxmox installation has finished, what's the optimum way set up the rest of the available disk space for local VM storage? It's a 3.64 TB array and only about 120GB is being used by the proxmox installation. I'd like to use the rest as a LVM volume for KVM storage.