New proxmox install with old drives

[AB-256]

Hello All,

I am reaching out because I ran into an issue were my main drive running the proxmox os has become corrupted.

I have made a new proxmox install on a new drive but now I need to connect my storage drives with my VMs.

I see the drives in the disks and can access them without issue but I can't get them to be added as drives with the VMs listed.

I am pretty new to storage management so haven't done anything special with the VM installs just LVM.

Any advice on how to get the disks listed in proxmox again or just get the VMs back would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Supaman]

Problem:
the VM config file and the VM disks are stored on different places. since your OS dis kist lost, those config files are lost. you can mount the disks with VMs manually via shell, but you need to recreate the VM config files, because those are stored on the OS disk. ask AI for details.

@proxmox team
in VMware it was simple: unless you did different, all VM related files had been stored in one folder with the VM name. you coud reinstall you host, attach old disk, and then just register the VMs. finish.

in proxmox all the stuff for one VM is stored on diffrent places or disks. it would be great if you integrate
a) mechanisms to full auto mount old disks
b) change storage behaviour to all-in-one-folder

or save at least a copy of the vm-config files on data disks - this files are only a few KBs.