Proxmox VMs storage disk hosted on another external server (NAS)

[Elmani335]

Hello every ! I searched on google and youtube but I did not really find the answer to my questions.

So here it is, I have a server with Proxmox installed on it, with a 5Tb RAID

And on another rack I have a server with a NAS installed on it (about 22Tb)

Now I would like to create VMs that run on proxmox, but use the NAS storage (the boot disk and the VM storage disk on the NAS as well)

Is it possible ? If so, can someone guide me through the process?

the NAS and the PVE are on the same local network

Thanks !

 

[Dunuin]

Using iSCSI would probably give you the best performance. Other option would be to add a NFS/SMB share to your PVE and use that to store the virtual disks as qcow2 image files.
For best performance I would still prefer to store the OS and application on local storage inside the PVE server and only mount NFS/SMB shares inside the VM to access your cold storage on the NAS.

 

[Elmani335]

Using iSCSI would probably give you the best performance. Other option would be to add a NFS/SMB share to your PVE and use that to store the virtual disks as qcow2 image files.
For best performance I would still prefer to store the OS and application on local storage inside the PVE server and only mount NFS/SMB shares inside the VM to access your cold storage on the NAS.

Thx ! will search some docs on how to setup that correctly and make some test