Proxmox Virtual Environment Complete Course Part 14 - Shared Storage

[@ME-ov7vp]

i really appreciate your videos, when learning proxmox is so messy, so many videos of the same thing or cant follow the tutorials, because the person assumes you already know, and many steps are skipped, you are probably the only one with a proxmox course step by step

[@MehrdadGivehchi]

I just binge watched all of the proxmox video tutorials… great content and many thanks.

[@SwiatLinuksa]

GZ 200K ! Thanks for everything you doing for community Mr. Jay!

[@gregjones9601]

I would love to see a guide on the different storage types in Proxmox. When talking about "shared" storage, what are the best options today? Should we use Ceph? Should we use traditional means like NFS or iSCSI? I'm curious if there are options that make one better than another. I haven't been able to find content or guides that discuss these options and any configurations of those other options. Could make for a good class....

[@Karimkarimbady]

It depends on what is availabale as hardware, hard disk on each server you want to use it as PVE in cluster and a size of your company like a number of VM an CT for me i start using shared Storage on truenas Core like :nfs, iscsi. But Ceph it's more expensie in term of hard disk and ssd so the choice is a question of available hardware.

[@jforbush]

Going back to watch this as I neglected to set up sheared volumes before activating high availability. Lesson learned and that you really need share volumes for high availability to actually work :-)

[@michvair]

Hi Jay, thank you very much for all your videos already, I am just starting using Proxmox VE for storage purposes at least. Michel, from france.

[@theothembela7778]

I've been looking for Proxmox training and just found this on KZbin. Thank you.

[@SilentChappie]

Loved the shoutout to Tom

[@petersudomier6399]

jay, enjoy your videos thank you for all the time you put into this!, Thanks again from Detroit MI

[@markdandridge3420]

Wish you would read your comments. Several people need help with the user Proxmox. Is it just an account you made? Does it have special permissions? You just said I'm using this user and didn't tell us how to get said user making the rest of the video void.

[@maksim4995]

Tnx for constructive instructions, looking forward to next part of a video.

[@fmj_556]

Awesome vid! I'be been trying to figure this out for years. Thanks!

[@libertine5606]

I still don't know how to have my Jellyfin vm "see" my movie files on my Synology NFS "shared" folders.

[@trilobyte6315]

How is the user "proxmox" showing in your truenas dropdown ? I have separate truenas physical machine but no user name "proxmox" when I go to create share... Is your truenas install virtualized inside proxmox and perhaps host os picking up "proxmox" user from there ? Thank You !

[@jcdock]

You need to add a user to truenas

[@tlxreed]

Very useful and informative. I didn't get how the datacenter has user/group permissions for the share points. I see that the NFS share mounts have a user/group of promox, but how did your datacenter have that user/group set up originally so the mount point would work?

[@gracelobo8113]

Thanks for producing such great contents!

[@scockman]

@LearnLinuxTV love your whole Proxmox series. Questions on the user account "proxmox" in TrueNAS. Is that account also in the Proxmox Server? If so is it a PAM or a PVE account?

[@markdandridge3420]

Is there anything special about the user proxmox in truenas?

[@chempranav]

Excellent series, helped me alot!! would have been even better if had whiteboard/illustrations when explaining concepts. Thanks.

[@АлексейГрищенко-с1г]

Why did we use proxmox user and proxmox group? I think we should create some account and group for our shared folders. Are proxmox is a default user or account for this?

[@SSBelmont]

Can you create a video on creating SMB shares with TrueNAS Scale 20.10.2 running on Proxmox and mounting the SMB from Proxmox? There seems to be an issue with SMB shares that no one seems to be able to answer. The goal is simple SMB share that Windows users can read/write to without using Purpose = Private SMB and Dataset Shares. I think

[@anirbandutta1371]

Great video. I have one question though. How is proxmox authenticated with the TRUENAS share? I see the share gets added just by adding the NAS IP and it doesn't prompt for username/password?

[@rcdenis1]

That Truenas server, is it a physical computer or a VM running on proxmox? Thanks for the series, I love learning.

[@borat1]

You should be able to use either, I can’t see why not

[@RoyvanLierop]

At 4:41 you reference someone called Ton Lorris? Could you put a link in the description for us?

[@klgit]

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[@justindownloadin3133]

when setting my permissions in the dataset path under User i do not have proxmox as an option. I entered proxmox for both user and group applied the checks and when i saved it had the error no such Error: [EINVAL] pool_dataset_permission.user: "getpwnam(): name not found: 'proxmox'" and also the group. I may need to add the user into the group and it may have been covered in a previous class. Thank you for your tutorials.

[@williemaddox9919]

Anything special when setting up your proxmox user in truenas? passwordless? permit sudo? home directory settings? permissions? Do any of the settings have to be the same as your proxmox user on your proxmox server?

[@camaycama7479]

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[@simo47768]

Thanks for awesome series. Please do also about truenas core. I like the way you explain stuff. By the way i want to use my proxmox server also as a backup server. I guess i need to use command line to create nfs share and expert them

[@edneyhelenedossantos1875]

Thanks that's very nice

[@alfathmuqoddas6986]

Great video man!

[@applemodus]

Thanks for the video

[@TK_Raz]

I felt that network bottleneck hard before. Especially with a lot of servers. Ever since, I invested in 100Gb LAN. Pricy, but worth in the very long run.

[@Random_Innovation]

Thanks for explaining this in a understandable manner!

[@andyhello23]

Nice course again, cheers for your efforts.

[@Elrevisor2k]

I only have three one gig network interfaces on my server is it possible to join them to accelerate the speed when performing backups using a 2.5g switch and my mac with 10g network? Or I need simply wait until my backups ended at 1g network speed? Thanks great video ❤

[@felicemassaro9564]

Thank you for your amazing videos.

[@adrian_gheorghita]

You are the best.Thanks for your effort.Thanks a lot.

[@jossushardware1158]

Is it possible to make the trueNAS HA also? What if the single trueNAS server crashes? Which options there are to make the NFS itself HA?

[@johngrabner]

Is nfs wide open or is there security? how does proxmox provide password for nfs share?

[@mdhurrtn]

Great video, thanks for the information. One question, can proxmox 8.1.3 have two virtual machines(truenas scale using a PLEX application and jellyfin installed as a virtual machine) share a hard drive(s) that is on a smb share? Would I need to use pcie sata adapter or can I identify the hard drives by there serial numbers in the configuration files? Thanks.

[@UbuntuHD2]

can you make a video briefly going over how to set a fully qualified domain name for a trueness setup

[@DawidKellerman]

The drop down is also a way to see if the nfs share is alive and kicking

[@CarlosPaleodaRocha]

Which is Tom Morris channel about TrueNAS?

[@esra_erimez]

Is there an open source solution for distributed shared storage similar to vmware's vSAN?

[@kodikodi9948]

this is great stuff. thank you so much.

[@stephanh8]

I love your cousres

[@marcorobbe9003]

Hi and first thanks for all your great videos. I am having a question to share storage in the other direction. So I want to share storage from the proxmox server to other clients. In detail: I installed my proxmox server and on that a container (debian 12) with paperless-ngx. Now I would like to publish folders from paperless-ngx. Consumption folder with read/write and media with read permissions. Because I am using it by my own it would also be ok to have the whole paperless-ngx installation folder as read/write share. Now I want to mount the folders from my mac to write files to the consumption folder and also read the other folders to copy their content for backups. I am planning to set up a seperat fileserver later on to connect folders as you have explained in this video, but for now I yust want to use the storage on my Proxmox server. Can I manage to publish the HDD without of proxmox or do I need to publish folders from within the different containers? How to do so? Thanks a lot.

[@nt2548]

Excellent series! Thanks a lot!

[@tokoiaoben3842]

Thank you very much for your time. I'm using sysnology in my network for backup and I'm going to move all my VMs to it. I'm still moving all servers onto virtualized environment (proxmox) since the administrative work especially for backup in particular is much simpler for me. Appreciate if you can also show us separate tutorial for for shared storage for sysnology with proxmox. Once again thank you very much.

[@claudiantenegri2612]

Thank you, very useful!!

[@mirko1989]

How is user and group setup on Proxmox , you have them on NAS , so how is Proxmox accessing them , how it knows waht user , group and password to use , how is authentication handled here ????

[@ckirkyg]

I'm interested in setting up unraid in a vm in proxmox and sharing it with all of the vms and containers running on the same promox server. Are there any gotchas or considerations I should think through with this scenario?

[@niekversteege]

I was thinking the same but using truenas instead of unraid. I am expecting some kind of weird problem! Hope Jay has tried this and knows an answer.

[@haithammaged987]

thanks :)

[@RoyvanLierop]

How do I add existing storage to a Vm? For example an ext4 partition.

[@1stGenMOZIT]

Hi...im willing to learn more about proxmox clusters, high avaliability, live magration

[@jorgegomez374]

Could please do something similar to the raspberry pi cluster. Accessing external hard drives. Thank you

[@AceBoy2099]

Is this the same process to have proxmox read my share from unraid that already contains all my iso files in their own subfolders? Would it work better if I used truenas instead? Or am I S.O.L?

[@FNOSwingTrading]

please make video how to True NAS High-Availability (HA) configure

[@reviewtoday1069]

I had an error 500 locked when adding NFS. Turns out if you turn off a nodes, Proxmox will lock down some stuff. This can be fix by running "pvecm expected 1" from the shell.

[@Sub-lb7uq]

I have tried to share a second drive across containers, I am running Plex, Sonarr, Radarr and Qbittorrent nox, when a file is downloaded it sets the file to root:root which sonarr and radarr cannot access driving me nuts any suggestions?

[@goodcitizen4587]

Thanks! How about using a synology.

[@matiastrane7598]

It seems you're quite experienced with this, so i hope you're able to help. I've tried following almost every video on this topic; Mounting NFS shares from NAS in Proxmox, but my VM can only see the main directory and not any of the subdirectories or any files. As far as i understand, NFS uses IPs to authenticate but uses user/pass for permissions, however i see nothing about how to set that up in any guides or videos. It's like what i'm trying to do is very niche, when i feel it's very common. I checked all settings and permissions on my (Synology) NAS. When i run a Ubuntu VM and mount the same folder, i am able to see the subfolders. Do you have any idea what i've done wrong?

[@tylerbarr2740]

I am having this problem right now. I ended up using fstab to mnt my smb share on the host and then used a bind mount to connect it to a container. Did you ever find a solution to your problem mine feels so clunky.

[@claudiantenegri2612]

Just a question: is the TrueNas server also a VM on Proxmox or standalone?

[@meomeo860]

- From a proxmox node, I connect NFS storage to a NAS, then create a VM on that partition ok. - The same way, but the connection type is CIFS to a shared folder on the windows machine, the connection is successful, but cannot create a VM on that partition. Admin can you point me to this problem, please! Thank you!

[@royprice931]

when you do a back up with shared storage does it back up the share

[@earllarsen5513]

I receave "create storage failed: storage 'NFSshare' is not online (500)". Everything is correct. I do have nfs-kernel-server installed on my main pc, and able to access the share through other pcs. Do I need to install anything else on the nfs server?

[@Lunolux]

i was having similare error, my error was because i have a Capital in the name of my ID.... so changing "Storage" to "storage" resolve my probleme.... so try a name in lower case for all the letter. edit : nvm, i was trying to set the path "/data/backup" in proxmox, but the share i create was "backup", i think we can't share a folder "data" that containe a subfolder "backup" and then set in proxmox "data/backup" check if you have create a share like "backup" and then config it ini proxmox with "backup"

[@cognoscibilis]

Truenas and proxmox connects with 1 GigE? What about speed? Is it enough for VMs?

[@badburn]

How do you increase the size of VM disk running Centos 7? Thanks

[@theothembela7778]

I wonder why don't you have this course on udemy platform.

[@Foars989]

can multiple proxmox nodes use a single iscsi block?

[@Stephen-wh7vl]

the real question is what kind of Nic are you using

[@voiceoftreason1760]

you should install the dark theme for proxmox

[@Danielo515]

why NFS and not samba? In my experience NFS is very sensitive to network outages

[@CarlosPaleodaRocha]

NFS (Network File System) is a protocol commonly used in Unix/Linux environments for sharing files and directories between machines. It is lightweight and offers good performance for read-heavy workloads, making it a good choice for environments that prioritize speed and low latency, such as HPC clusters. On the other hand, Samba is a protocol commonly used in Windows environments for sharing files and printers between machines. It offers better compatibility with Windows systems and supports more advanced features such as access control and file locking. Samba is also more suited for environments where read and write workloads are more balanced or where interoperability with Windows clients is a requirement. Therefore, it is important to consider the specific needs of your environment and the systems that will be accessing the shared storage before choosing between NFS and Samba. I believe Jay chose NFS due to performance and to the fact his network mainly have Unix like systems. In some cases, it may even be appropriate to use both protocols to provide the best performance and compatibility for different systems. I use both in my scenario and it works like a charm either for Unix like or Windows System and makes it easier to transfer old Hyper-V VMs to shared folder, where I can import them into Proxmox.

[@RaduRadonys]

If you use samba, pay attention that you cannot add from the gui a shared storage if you have an older samba storage machine. Only samba v3 is accepted by the gui. You can however add it from command line only, where you can pass the flag "--smbversion 2.0" (or 2.1, etc).

[@grocerylist]

Love your Proxmox videos. I'm getting an error when trying to add the NFS storage in Proxmox. I can't figure out why. I'm not sure why root wouldn't have permissions to mkdir. Any ideas? create storage failed: mkdir /mnt/pve/Proxmox-backups/dump: Permission denied at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Storage/Plugin.pm line 1292. (500)

[@thestreamreader]

is 1 gigabit enough speed for nfs implantation?

[@pascaldufour9275]

First view. First like ;)

[@hacked2123]

Still disturbs me greatly that the pages flip incorrectly in your intro animation

[@wigh9169]

That was great. Thank you.