Rename local pve storage in Proxmox

[dougknows]

I have resized my pve-data LV in order to expose the pve VG to be available for VM disk storage. This has been working well for a while now, but I would like to create a cluster of 2 machines. I tried performing the same setup on the second machine, reducing pve-data and adding the pve VG to Proxmox.

However, in the Proxmox WebUI, since the storage is across the entire data center, I can't cluster and use the machines that have LVM storage added to each when the name of that VG is the same. So, host1 and host2 having a VM-usable "pve" VG doesn't appear to be possible, since the system doesn't differentiate between the two.

Am I missing another way to do this, so that I can expose that same VG between two machines? If not, are there any suggestions on how this should be done?

Thanks!

 

[dietmar]

So, host1 and host2 having a VM-usable "pve" VG doesn't appear to be possible, since the system doesn't differentiate between the two.

What exactly is the problem?

 

[dougknows]

What exactly is the problem?

Sorry, this was user error. When I added the volume group "pve" I had given it a hostname-pve name so that I could differentiate between different servers. I see now that once I add it to one server, and don't check "Shared," it adds that VG to all the nodes which have it. That's exactly what I want - I just didn't know it was actually doing that.

Thanks!