Missing pve entry?

[kolson3208]

Hello all.
New to Proxmox so I am not familiar with all of the screens.. However I believe and entry is missing on my New Proxmox setup..
This server has been running for about 3 weeks and first day back from vacation none of the VM are running or will start. Data-storage units are all identified as unknown.

If I remember correctly there was a pve entry in the left list which is now not there.. Can anyone shed any light on what may have happened or how to resolve?





This is what I have checked so far: (Thanks ChatGPT)
1. Check cluster filesystem (pmxcfs)

All configs (VMs, storage, etc.) live in /etc/pve.
If pmxcfs isn’t mounted → the GUI shows empty or broken storage.

ls -l /etc/pve


Should show subdirs (nodes/, qemu-server/, storage.cfg)

If it’s empty, restart:

systemctl restart pve-cluster
systemctl restart corosync # only if clustered

Check logs:
journalctl -xe | grep pmxcfs


2. Check if storage.cfg is valid
cat /etc/pve/storage.cfg

If it’s missing or corrupted → nothing shows in GUI.
If entries exist but are misconfigured → they show as unknown.

 

[bbgeek17]

Hi @kolson3208 , welcome to the forum.

You are likely misremembering. There is no universal "pve" entry in the left tree. You may have had one, ie storage pool name or VE name, but we wouldn't know about it.

Your storage has question marks because it is likely not available/broken.
If you run "pvesm status" you may get more useful information. You should also examine "/etc/pve/storage.cfg".

Best

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