I'm getting a new drive and want to install PVE on it instead of the current drive. My question is if I install PVE on the new one, will the storages (for VM disk images and other stuff) on the old drive still be recognizable and usable in the new installation?
[SOLVED] Migrate PVE to a new drive
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If both resident on the same drive (PVE & VMs): no. A new install will wipe everything. If you have no separate drive for VMs you‘ll have to backup them first (USB, SMB/CIFS, etc.) and restore them afterwards. You could also clone your old drive to the new one and resize the partitions. In any case, a backup is advisable, even with a separate drive. VM configs are located on your boot drive/PVE system.
No, but you‘ll loose your configs from your VMs. If you leave the old drive you can use it as additional drive/space.
another option is to clone the drive.
this should work well if the new drive is the same type of drive as the old one (i.e. Sata/SAS, NVMe, etc) and the same size.
if the new drive is bigger, cloning would still work, but you would have a lot of empty and unused space at the end of the disk (which can be made usable using cli).
just wanted to throw this out there, as i did this when i started with pve last year and quickly found my 512gb nvme too small for my purposes, so i cloned it to a 1tb nvme and later expanded the logical volumes to use the extra space.
this should work well if the new drive is the same type of drive as the old one (i.e. Sata/SAS, NVMe, etc) and the same size.
if the new drive is bigger, cloning would still work, but you would have a lot of empty and unused space at the end of the disk (which can be made usable using cli).
just wanted to throw this out there, as i did this when i started with pve last year and quickly found my 512gb nvme too small for my purposes, so i cloned it to a 1tb nvme and later expanded the logical volumes to use the extra space.
Yes this may also be an option. But it seems more error prone and a bit inflexible, since with backups you can use other storages located elsewhere and this can be set through the recovering UI. much more convenient IMO
I'm planning to do so. to use a much smaller drive for PVE and move VM disks elsewhere
I'm planning to do so. to use a much smaller drive for PVE and move VM disks elsewhere