Proxmox and LVM

[spetrillo]

Hello all,

I am new to Proxmox, having come from a VMware world. I have a 500 gig drive in my Proxmox server. It is setup with LVM-Thin I believe it is called, which is basically thin provisioning in VMware. For this server it it will be a lab server and we would not be using thin provisioning. Is there a way to turn off LVM-Thin and when I create a vm it gets its storage fully from the 500 gig drive? In this use case I do not see a reason for LVM.

Thanks,
Steve

 

[BobhWasatch]

I don't see a reason to not use lvm-thin, If you don't want to overprovision, just don't overprovision. The only way to assign space "directly" is to pass a partition to the VM but if it is already lvm-thin you can't do that.

Lvm-thin also gets you snapshots, which seems like something that would be handy in a lab. When the students mess it up you can simply roll back.