Proxmox on Dedicated server at OVH

[ct_roy]

Hi,
I'm very new to Proxmox!
I have a Rise-2 dedicated machine from OVH ( https://www.ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/rise/rise-2/ ) which comes with 2*480GB SSD's
I installed Proxmox VE6 via OVH's OS templates but I'm a bit confused about how their template has configured the disks.

When I login to Proxmox and go to disks I see
https://i.imgur.com/JyFcnwR.png

Under LVM I have
https://i.imgur.com/Z75p9mp.png

Term the terminal I have:

root@ns522034:~# df -hT
Filesystem           Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev                 devtmpfs   32G     0   32G   0% /dev
tmpfs                tmpfs     6.3G  9.2M  6.3G   1% /run
/dev/md2             ext4       20G  3.3G   16G  18% /
tmpfs                tmpfs      32G   43M   32G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                tmpfs     5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs                tmpfs      32G     0   32G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sdb1            vfat      510M  156K  510M   1% /boot/efi
/dev/mapper/pve-data ext4      415G   71M  394G   1% /var/lib/vz
/dev/fuse            fuse       30M   16K   30M   1% /etc/pve
tmpfs                tmpfs     6.3G     0  6.3G   0% /run/user/0

root@ns522034:~# vgdisplay
  --- Volume group ---
  VG Name               pve
  System ID
  Format                lvm2
  Metadata Areas        1
  Metadata Sequence No  3
  VG Access             read/write
  VG Status             resizable
  MAX LV                0
  Cur LV                1
  Open LV               1
  Max PV                0
  Cur PV                1
  Act PV                1
  VG Size               425.62 GiB
  PE Size               4.00 MiB
  Total PE              108960
  Alloc PE / Size       107936 / 421.62 GiB
  Free  PE / Size       1024 / 4.00 GiB
  VG UUID               IJYqQi-FkJ8-KrKD-NpsL-LdZB-HEd3-OxuNC1

root@ns522034:~# pvs
  PV         VG  Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree
  /dev/md4   pve lvm2 a--  425.62g 4.00g
root@ns522034:~# df -hT
Filesystem           Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev                 devtmpfs   32G     0   32G   0% /dev
tmpfs                tmpfs     6.3G  9.2M  6.3G   1% /run
/dev/md2             ext4       20G  3.3G   16G  18% /
tmpfs                tmpfs      32G   43M   32G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                tmpfs     5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs                tmpfs      32G     0   32G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sdb1            vfat      510M  156K  510M   1% /boot/efi
/dev/mapper/pve-data ext4      415G   71M  394G   1% /var/lib/vz
/dev/fuse            fuse       30M   16K   30M   1% /etc/pve
tmpfs                tmpfs     6.3G     0  6.3G   0% /run/user/0
root@ns522034:~# pvs
  PV         VG  Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree
  /dev/md4   pve lvm2 a--  425.62g 4.00g
root@ns522034:~# vgs
  VG  #PV #LV #SN Attr   VSize   VFree
  pve   1   1   0 wz--n- 425.62g 4.00g
root@ns522034:~# lvs
  LV   VG  Attr       LSize   Pool Origin Data%  Meta%  Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
  data pve -wi-ao---- 421.62g

I was originally following this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzenuPIOgJk but my disk config via OVH is quite different (i.e. I don't have anywhere to put OS/ISO templates - https://i.imgur.com/WwH9sli.png and I'm a little bit lost!

Should I be using the pre-defined OVH Proxmox config or should I install myself?
I'm hoping to get Proxmox up and running on a single dedicated to machine to spin up a few VM's for some web apps I currently host on DO/Vultr.

Thanks!

 

[matrix]

Hi,

put OS/ISO templates

Go to Datacenter -> Storage -> Add -> Directory and give him path and name don't forget the Content: "ISO" [1] then go to your Node you will see the storages there, u can upload your ISO to your storage and create VM.


Also see here for more Informations [2]



[1] https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage:_Directory
[2] https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Category:HOWTO

 

[ct_roy]

Hey @matrix - thanks for the reply!

Do i need a separate partition for this storage directory? Right now when I try to create a directory I see this
trying this: https://i.imgur.com/qA8ZAPd.png
i get this: https://i.imgur.com/JEWeN0Z.png

which I guess makes sense as the path I'm entering doesn't yet exist (i wasn't sure if the path needed to exist or if Proxmox was actually creating it).

Can I store ISO's in the existing directory that the OVH Proxmox install created?
https://i.imgur.com/gcIRUB2.png

Thanks.

 

[ct_roy]

Interesting! When I go to /var/lib/vz I see this
https://i.imgur.com/h4fpKCs.png

so it looks like the OVH install has already configured this directory.. man I wish they documented their default settings!

 

[matrix]

Hi,

i get this: https://i.imgur.com/JEWeN0Z.png

Here you need to give a path for Directory like: /mnt/ISO

Can I store ISO's in the existing directory that the OVH Proxmox install created?

Yes you can, as you see "Content" there is ISO image, that means you can storage ISO images on it