Storage Configuration Help

[Myk Robinson]

Rookie question ahead:

I have never heard of ProxMox before a few days ago. I had a blade that was used as a Replibit vault previously, figured i'd give this a try. I installed the OS without issue. I have plenty of storage space on the server, but am missing something with regards to configuring.

I did NOT setup a RAID before installing, as Replibit used ZFS and the drives were configured as JBOD. At this stage, do I need to start over and create a RAID in order to utilize the space? Or what can I do to all drive sdb - sdh to be used for VMs, ISO storage, etc?

As far as hypervisors go, I have some experience with ESXi and Hyper-V, but in those scenarios, your drives must be configured first.

Any pointers or links to the appropriate section of the manual would be helpful.

Thanks

 

[lilCDNnrg]

I installed Proxmox with only the main SSD installed then add 2 2TB drives after and added them into the system using lvm and ext4 and then added them into PVE with directory storage type under Data centre -> Storage

 

[dietmar]

I did NOT setup a RAID before installing, as Replibit used ZFS and the drives were configured as JBOD.

If you are familiar with ZFS, why not use ZFS? The default Proxmox installation includes all zfs tools.

 

[Myk Robinson]

If you are familiar with ZFS, why not use ZFS? The default Proxmox installation includes all zfs tools.

I can't say I am intimately acquianted with it. We use it with all our Replibit appliances but there is a GUI for setting up the storage array. I can create the array in the shell, but am just making sure I am not missing a slightly more obvious method through the GUI to define the storage pool I want for VMs. During installation, it asked where I wanted to install ProxMox, and I selected /dev/sda, assuming that later down the road, I would be able to create a separate volume for the VMs.

I'll get it figured out, guess I need to digest this manual a bit, which admittedly I have not read Just playing with it at the moment to see what it's all about.

So, let's assume I create a zfs pool in the shell, I will still need to figure out how to present this volume to ProxMox, I assume. Lemme do some reading and get back.

 

[dietmar]

I can't say I am intimately acquianted with it. We use it with all our Replibit appliances but there is a GUI for setting up the storage array.

We also have a GUI in our installer. Maybe you just reinstall, and select ZFS this time:

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/ZFS_on_Linux