New install not using full hard drive space

[danfratamico]

I installed PVE 9.1.1 as a VM on ESXi to test it out. I attached a new 60 GB disk to the VM. Installed using ext4 and did not mess with the advanced hard drive options during setup. How can I get PVE to use the full 60 GB?

"pve" node max size	26.28 GB
"local" pve node max size	28.22 GB
"local-lvm" pve node max size	32.88 GB

 

[BobhWasatch]

It is using the full size. The "local-lvm" is a logical volume where you are supposed to put your VM disks. Please read the manual:
https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pvesm.html

 

[danfratamico]

It is using the full size. The "local-lvm" is a logical volume where you are supposed to put your VM disks. Please read the manual:
https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pvesm.html

Thanks, I will read it over. Question - so if my local-lvm is where I want most of the space allocated, why is it only showing 32 GB max? I would expect much closer to 60 GB. I want to be able to use the full size.

 

[Impact]

You can't with this kind of storage setup. You can only change which storage gets how much. With ZFS you're able to use all the space with each storage and you also effectively have more space due to compression but you probably don't want to run that on a virtual disk. Yes, technically you can remove local-lvm and only use local but I don't like that.

 

[danfratamico]

You can't with this kind of storage setup. You can only change which storage gets how much. ZFS gives you the option to use all space with each storage and also gives you more space due to compression but you probably don't want to run that on a virtual disk. Yes, technically you can remove local-lvm and only use local but I don't like that.

So when I install Proxmox on a bare metal with a hardware RAID setup, I will run into the same scenario? I don't have any need to use ZFS.

 

[Impact]

Yes. The underlying hardware makes no difference here. This is how the default LVM/ext4 setup works. I think everyone could use ZFS but with HW RAID it's a bad idea anyways.
What you can do though is to create a volume and file system on the data volume that's backing local-lvm. local-lvm is for block storage and local is for file storage. They are backed by separate volumes and cannot directly share space. Check lvs.
Please don't quote whole messages.

 

[DerekG]

So when I install Proxmox on a bare metal with a hardware RAID setup, I will run into the same scenario? I don't have any need to use ZFS.

Use the advance disk settings during installation and there you can specify the size of the swap and root/boot drive, then the balanced will be assigned to local-lvm. There use can also set zfs, drive mirroring etc.