Storage not active on one node

[royalj7]

Hi folks,

I've been using a single Proxmox node (Steiner) for alittle while but just recently created a cluster with a 2nd node (Kurita). I'm still a Linux/hypervisor newbie, so apologize if I'm missing something fundamental. On the first node, I have a directory storage named "VM2" that is working fine. On the second node, I created a ZFS mirror and named it VM2 also. I went to Datacenter>Storage>VM2 and added the second node to the "nodes" drop down. VM2 was added under the 2nd node, but has a "?" beside it. It shows as not active when I go to Summary on the storage. Anyone have some suggestion on what I'm doing wrong? The VM2 storage on the 1st node is not ZFS, but a simple ext4 partition. Can I not have those two different file systems as one storage location?

Thanks,
--James

 

[Dunuin]

If you want that both nodes can access the same storage you need to setup some kind of real shared storage (SMB/NFS/CEPH) working over the network. An alternative would be using two local ZFSs that are not shared but get replicated to be in sync. In that case both ZFS pools need to use the same name and mountpoints. And ofcause both need to be ZFS or replication won't work.