Proxmox Hard drive Power Management

[jonology]

Hi Im looking at putting in proxmox at home, Atm I just have virtual box running on top of windows on the same hdd. I got other drives for only data like my data files etc. Was just wondering if proxmox powered down hdd if they are not in use after a certen time like windows does since I do not want them all powered up 24/7. Does any one know if proxmox powers down hdds?

Thanks

 

[e100]

Proxmox is just Linux so whatever power management options available in Linux are in Proxmox, you just need to make the appropriate adjustments to enable the features you desire.
This is rather old, but seems to have some relevant information that might help you configure your system to spin down the disks:
http://serverfault.com/questions/48...n-of-idle-hard-disks-on-a-debian-lenny-server

 

[allan]

Hi, i use hdparm to controll a 2Tb WD sata drive holding archives seldom used.

in my case hdparm -S 120 /dev/sdb

Works very good and powerdown the drive.(-S Set standby (spindown) timeout)

hdparm -S 120 /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
setting standby to 120 (10 minutes)
root@pm:~#

 

[jonology]

Thanks ill have to put proxmox on and give it a go