Trying to recover VMs on External HDD from another Proxmox Machine

[AlekkusuFuyu]

So, my bad, I set up my first storage server in a really weird way that I don't exactly remember what I did, or if I even followed a video/guide to do it. I believe I made my entire external HDD the storage for an Ubuntu Server VM for the purpose of running Samba, Jellyfin, and Transmission on it. I restarted the machine running Proxmox because the file transfers got way too inconsistent and slow, and all of a sudden it won't connect to my network again so I can access the GUI or any of the VMs. I'll figure that part out later, but I'm more concerned on getting my files back that are on the VM.

I took the HDD to another machine running Proxmox and am attempting to start the VM back up to get these files off. All pictures/outputs are from new machine.

The "external" pool/volume group is what I'm after.

root@pve:~# lvs -a
  Failed to parse thin params: Error.
  LV               VG       Attr       LSize   Pool     Origin Data%  Meta%  Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
  external         external twi-aotzF-  <1.79t                                                       
  [external_tdata] external Twi-ao----  <1.79t                                                       
  [external_tmeta] external ewi-ao---- <15.88g                                                       
  [lvol0_pmspare]  external ewi------- <15.88g                                                       
  vm-101-disk-0    external Vwi-XXtzX-   2.00t external                                               
  data             pve      twi-aotz--  75.03g                 31.81  2.36                           
  [data_tdata]     pve      Twi-ao----  75.03g                                                       
  [data_tmeta]     pve      ewi-ao----   1.00g                                                       
  [lvol0_pmspare]  pve      ewi-------   1.00g                                                       
  root             pve      -wi-ao----  47.01g                                                       
  swap             pve      -wi-ao----   8.00g                                                       
  vm-100-disk-0    pve      Vwi-aotz--  32.00g data            26.78                                 
  vm-101-disk-0    pve      Vwi-aotz--   8.00g data            50.08                                 
  vm-102-disk-0    pve      Vwi-aotz--  32.00g data            23.64                                 
  vm-102-disk-1    pve      Vwi-aotz--   4.00m data            14.06                                 
  vm-103-disk-0    pve      Vwi-aotz--  20.00g data            18.63

I can add the external drive to storage, but all I get is this 99.98% usage, with nothing showing under VM Disks, CT Volumes, or Permissions.


Any help would be massively appreciated, I have been searching the internet all day and cannot find what I'm looking for. Thank you!

 

[Gilou]

vm-101-disk-0 is the only LV appearing, I guess that's the one you want.. what you should do is create another VM to attach that disk, or you could even get its conf from the former PVE node, if you have it (/etc/pve/qemu-server/101.conf) and put it on the new node you show there.. either move the 101 container out of the way, or use another VMID.. if you can "claim" 101 the disk may appear as unused.. otherwise, you'll need to import the LV in the VM, either using the qm importdisk command, or directly using qemu-img..