Proxmox VM storage question

newpain01

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Nov 14, 2022
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Finally setting up my Proxmox server and I can't figure out how to store VMs on a separate drive. I have 4 SSDs, 2x 240GB in ZFS Mirror for Proxmox and 2x 480GB in ZFS Mirror for the VMs. During the Proxmox installation, I went to Advanced and selected ZFS mirror for the 2x 240GB SSDs, and selected 'do not use' for the other two. Now after installation, I went to pve and created a ZFS pool for the virtual machines and selected to use ZFS Mirror for the 2x 480 drives.

The problem is, when I go to create a virtual machine, I can only select "local (pve)" which is on the 240GB drive. I have no option to create a virtual machine on the 480GB ZFS pool. I am wondering what I did wrong?
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That's the storage for the iso image. You'll be able to select your install media from that tab.
Further on in the Disks tab you will select the vm disk to install to.
 
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