Need help adding HDD´s to Vms and LXC

[jorglodita]

Hi! I have started with Proxmox a few days ago and I am totally happy about all the features it has. My server is 90% working now, but I still have a big problem before finish this setup: the data HDDs. Right now they appear in the node showing "partitions" in the usage tab.

I am using Ubuntu LXC containers right now but could use an VM for this if really needed (my server is not very powerfull, that´s the reason I am using LXC).

I want to create a NAS LXC (or VM if needed) but there are so many ways of doing that that I am totally lost.
I CANT USE ZFS, that´s important. They are A LOT of HDDs already filled with important data, and they are in EXT4. I know ZFS would be better, but at this moment I really can´t do the jump.

I have backup of the most important data in case I do something wrong, but I´d prefer to do this once and well done and not playing with different setups until I find "the right one". I just want the most realiable way of having the HDDs in a NAS LXC (or VM), I do not plan to change the configuration for years and want something very robust.

In plain Ubuntu I was just mounting the HDD´s with fstab and...thats all! They were ready to use. But don´t know how to do this with Proxmox, is my first hypervisor.

Thanks a lot in advance!

 

[wolfgang]

Hi,

you can also mount the HDD with fstab at the host.
Then make a mount point for the container.

pct set <vmid> mp<x> <mountpath>,mp=<path inside ct>

 

[gProxiA]

Hello,

I don't know if it works with formatted hard drives

but you can create the Storage via the GUI:

Step 1:
You have to mount the disks via command line

Step 2: Create Directory
<your node> -> disks -> directory -> Create Directory

Step 3: Adding disk to VM
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/adding-an-existing-virtual-disk-image.7614/