I am very new to proxmox. I have recently build a system for the sole purpose of having a proxmox server. My problem is that when I try to create a directory ( to upload images, templates, etc ), it asks me for a drive! Not a partition or a directory, but an actual drive. This seems odd to me. So I am wondering if I am missing something here, or it is not just possible to have a proxmox server with only one drive? as in drives that would be exclusively used by proxmox. I have like 8 other drives on that server, but I want to use them exclusively for NAS. Also I know that I can mount a network share into proxmox for this purpose, but that is not a preferred option here. Any feed back would be really appreciated.
How exactly did you set it up? Proxmox runs on Debian so âfile systemâ rather than drives should be the storage unit it is concern with. I have servers with Proxmox running on a pair of drives as a single ZFS mirror vdev so it is equivalent to âoneâ drive. No problems with uploading stuff on it so there must be some info missing here.
Proxmox supports a wide variety of different storage backends. You should be able to use block devices, NFS, Ceph, ZFS etc. In your case you should be able to use the local storage (which is based on ZFS) for your VMâs/containers.
I have a 256GB nvme on which I created an EFI, a boot, swap, and a PV partition ( > 200GB ) for LVM. I then created a 20GB LV which was used for the root filesystem on which Proxmox ( debian ) is installed. I was planning to create other LV partitions for proxmos specific storage needs as they become necessary.
I then tried to follow the following video, and it said that I need to create a âDirecotyâ to be able to upload my ISOs, templates, etc.
and this is what I have when I log in to proxmox. Here is my one disk ( nvme ):
As you can see the disk field is empty as I donât have another disk. What do I need to do to use a partition ( LVM LV to be exact ) instead of a disk?
Canât tell you how much I appreciate your replys BTW. I have been searching and canât find anything.
Iâm assuming apart from your 20GB root LV, you didnât use any of the remaining 180GB on the PV? In this case, I would assume (again) that you just need to create another logical volume to use as a âdiskâ.
Well, that was the plan, but it didnât work. It ( Disks â directory â create ) doesnât show partitions, or at least LV partitions; only disks. That is exactly my problem here, and the whole point of this post.
Since this is my first time with proxmox, I donât know if it is normal? or maybe has something to do with LVM? should I just wipe everything and create a bunch of normal partitions and try with them? I can, but It looks like that that interface is very specific about wanting disks although that makes no sense. Maybe it is an old design and at the time, they didnât wanted to be IOPs limited?
This was, BTW, my backup plan. My original plan was to use BTRFS and sub volumes instead of LVM which didnât work either as proxmox, it seems, has no understanding of sub volumes. There are posts that mentions people doing similar thing on ZFS in passing (like your first post here) , but I canât find any actual documentation or howto for it.
Yes, and I can create a directory there and I have, but I canât upload anything from there, and they donât show up in the (node->disks->directory) as you can see from the previous screenshots.
âlocalâ came with the installation, and I created the âvmstorageâ which is the PV partition. I tried it after I saw that the PV partition wasnât in the âdisksâ dropdown in the node directory.
I have to agree the directory/uploading content part is not very intuitive. Every time I install a new Promox host, admittedly not that often, I need to remind myself of this by getting it wrong the first time