New to PBS v3+

[nexusguy59]

Hello Everyone,

I am trying to test out PBS before I take the plunge into a bare metal install. So what I have done is create a VM with PBSv3 and it is up and running. I have added 4 drives to the system and did a USB pass through to VM, I see the drives on the host and i can see them in the VM, However when I go to add them in PBS i am not seeing them.

So now i see this in the GUI:


This what I see when I try to add them to the PBS:

I don't know what I am doing wrong, Please tell me what I should be doing/looking for.
Thank you guys,
Michael

 

[Dunuin]

USB passthrough is fully emulated and not great when low latency or throughput is needed.
You could try disk passthrough to bring your USB disks into the VM: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Passthrough_Physical_Disk_to_Virtual_Machine_(VM)

Also make sure the disks are wiped as PVE and PBS won'T show disks that aren't completely unpartitioned.

 

[nexusguy59]

USB passthrough is fully emulated and not great when low latency or throughput is needed.
You could try disk passthrough to bring your USB disks into the VM: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Passthrough_Physical_Disk_to_Virtual_Machine_(VM)

Also make sure the disks are wiped as PVE and PBS won'T show disks that aren't completely unpartitioned.

That's exactly what the problem was I forgot I had them defined in a raid with mdadm, it was actually simple fix. All I did was clear the superblock and they were available. Yes i know USB pass through is not the best way to do this. I just don't have the extra money to buy a proper system. Thank you very much for your response.

 

[Dunuin]

Disk passthrough is still virtualized and works with any disk/system. Even with USB HDDs.