[SOLVED] Replication with different target storage name

Archmatux

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Hi All,

I've just upgraded to Proxmox 5.0 and I'm just getting to grips with some of the new features.
First of all I believe congratulations to the dev's are in order. The upgrade was seamless and I was able to get both my nodes upgraded in less than 30 minutes.

I'm currently trying out the replication but am struggling to get it going.
From what I can tell, it expects the target storage to have the same name as the source storage.

In my case, my primary node has ssd's in a pool named vmFlashPool and my secondary node has hdd's in a pool named vmSpinnyPool.

I also have this problem with live migration.

Is there a way to specify the name of the target storage?

If not, is this a feature that may be added in the future?
 
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dietmar

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Is there a way to specify the name of the target storage?

If not, is this a feature that may be added in the future?

Yes, this is a planned feature, but currently not available.
 

Archmatux

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Cheers dietmar.

Just checked out the roadmap:

  • live migration with local storage (qemu) to the gui
  • support for external fencing devices
  • qdevice (additional external vote, e.g. for 2-node clusters)
  • Cloudinit
  • Ceph improvements
Cant wait :)

Keep up the good work.
 

macpip

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Me to: please, enable to specify the per-node storage where the replica should be done
 
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Me too. Especially my (most important) VMs running on SSD storage should be replicated to another node with SSD storage. That's not possible right now. :-(
 

tabnul

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candidate here as well ;) Would be a good feature for added flexibility.
 

lennart

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Add me to this list too. Would be great to replicate from local-zfs to for example nvme (other local zfs pool) target storage :)
 

jedfrechette

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Consider this another +1.

Can anybody from Proxmox comment on this request's status? The last update was 4 years ago saying that it was planned?
 

mjtir

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The lack of this feature is the reason that i cant propose proxmox in a production environment 24/7 .
 

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