LVM newbie needs some help

Alternativende

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Aug 27, 2015
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Hello guys,
i have been using Proxmox now for quite a while in a few small setups. Now im doing a new installation on a brand new server with 6.55TB of disk space with the recent version.

Im very confused about this new lvm-thin thing, i have read the wiki pages about it but still im confused.

My goal with this new server is to migrate quite a few VM´s from older server´s to it. There are server running Windows 2k8 to 2k16 in RAW and some as qcow2, as well as a few Linux machines.

I really don´t know if i need this whole LVM thing or not , because i need to make snapshots from time to time and i also have to make backups from VM´s and so on.

Are there any big disadvantages if i would use a simple ext4 partition mounted to /var/lib/vz as i did the years before?

And if not, how do i do this?
 
generally lvmthin is closer to the hardware than a big file on a filesystem

because i need to make snapshots from time to time and i also have to make backups from VM´s and so on.
this all works with lvm thin

Are there any big disadvantages if i would use a simple ext4 partition mounted to /var/lib/vz as i did the years before?
you cannot make snapshots for raw files and this is the only way to have containers on a directory storage
on lvmthin also containers can be snapshotted
 
Hi,
thanks for you reply. Ok then i guess i have to go with lvm thin. Could you recommend a How To to getting started?

I have read this (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Logical_Volume_Manager_(LVM)) and did the steps as requested.

As far as i understood i have to create a LV after the default installation of Proxmox, in my case this would be on sda3 and the size would be around 6.15TB. I have done this and I could access this storage when i was trying to create a new test VM.

The thing that confused me was that Proxmox created two folders under /var/lib/vz that do not match with the folders on the "old" Proxmox. The first VM i was trying to migrate is saved under /var/lib/vz/images/VMID/VMdisk.qcow2. On the new Proxmox i just have:

Code:
/var/lib/vz# ls
dump  lost+found  template

instead of:

Code:
:/var/lib/vz# ls
dump  images  private  root  template

What i gonna have to do?
 

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