Hello. I would like to suggest a possible improvement for VMs and LXCs restoration. I have a home server with 3 SATA III 3.5 HDDs, 1 SATA III 2.5 HDD, 2 SATA III 2.5 SSDs, and 1 M.2 SATA III SSD. I installed the PVE on the M.2 SSD and a couple of VMs and LXCs on the other storage. Last week, my M.2 SSD died and I used one of the empty storage to install a new instance of PVE. With some tricks, I was able to connect all the previous storage and volumes to the new PVE installation, but because the .conf files of all of my VMs and LXCs were on the dead storage, I tried to create new VMs and LXCs that linked the relative files saved on the other storage. Unfortunately, the new VMs and LXCs didn't start. To avoid the same problems in the future, I would like to suggest the following:
- Improve the disks and volumes management to make it simple and GUI-friendly to connect previous storages/volumes to a new PVE installation.
- Save the .conf files of any VM and LXC on the same storage where the VMs and LXCs are saved, so after the installation on a new PVE you can recreate all the VMs and LXCs without the needed to backup the .conf files in advance.