Unable to create VM

[itmanbbq]

Greetings,

Forgive my simple question. I have two proxmox hosts. On pve1 I am unable to create a VM as I am not able to select any storage from the drop down. I do not have this issue on my pve2. I have 8 VM's running on pve1 and was able to create those VM's. I noticed that on my pve2 host the default image type under hard disk is raw. On the pve1 host the default image type is qemu.

I probably did something to cause this issue but I am stuck. I am also not able to move disks as well. The storage does not show up in the drop down.

I am new to proxmox . . . any suggestions would be helpful. I am using LVM storage.

 

[wolfgang]

Hi,

I guess you have not set the correct content type on the storage.
You can check this here.

Datacenter->Storage double click to "local-lvm"
Prove that "Disk image" is selected as content.

 

[itmanbbq]

Thank you for your response. . . . I verified that I have the correct option(s) set fo the storage. My issue I believe is how I created my storage. I deleted ALL my storage and started over. I was able to create VM's and select storage and move disks. When I came back to work on it today I was in the same scenario. Unable to create a vm and assign storage. Unable to move a disk.


My assumption is that I have an issue with my storage and possibly it's not mounted.

Many thanks for any additional assistance.

 

[itmanbbq]

. . . . More information. Upon further research I determined that when I create a hard disk for one of my VM's it also creates that same disk as a physical volume. This appears to be the cause of my issues in terms of moving disks and creating new vms. Once I remove that hard drive everything returns to normal. My VM may not be compatible with the LVM thin format. I notice that when I use the command pvs I see that the same disk is listed there with a mdvg as the volume.

 

[SoulRaven]

hi,
i have a similar problem, i can't crate new VM, on some servers the local_vm is active is working just fine, for the rest the local_vm has a "?" icon, and the state is Inactive. I have try to delete all the local_vm storage from datacenter->storage, but on recreate the storage local_vm on stat specific servers stays the same. Also when i try to create a VM, i get the error that there is no PVE volume created.
any ideea?

 

[itmanbbq]

I've seen the ? mark before when I've lost connectivity to my host or when the host isn't ready. I would run the following commands and compare to another host. That is how I noticed my issue.

pvs
vgs
lvs

With my issue . . . the vgs command took many many minutes to complete. When I don't have the MDVG volume group all three commands complete quickly.

, , , , back to my issue I've discovered the root cause of my problem that doesn't allow me to select ANY storage be it for a new VM or to move storage to another disk. I am using some specific VM(s) that create their own disk partitions. I've learned that AFTER I spin up a specific VM there is an additional physical volume created with the Volume Group shown as MDVG. From that point forward my issue occurs. If I manually remove that physical volume then by using "pvremove with the --force option twice" . Everything returns back to normal and I can select storage. Also . . . when this condition is in place the pve host becomes very sluggish. Every action takes more time the system is not stable.

I am going to try a different type of storage and see if my issue persists.

 

[Acpek28]

If you only have one disk you can do disk.
#Delete local-lvm storage
Datacenter > storage > select click remove

#Run this commands:
lvremove /dev/pve/data
lvresize -l +100%FREE /dev/pve/root
resize2fs /dev/mapper/pve-root