How To Setup NFS Shared Storage In Proxmox

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

If you want to learn more about Proxmox VE, this series will help you out kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXm6ioiqZbtgmZo

[@DarudeSandworm]

"As a prerequisite you do need to make sure the actual server or servers have actually got access to the BAS" I think this is the part I have no idea how to do. I've never used NFS before so I'm kind of upside down on how you would do this.

[@thiggs383]

Thank you for the very detailed info! Many tutorials skip over lots of information. You've earned my subscription. Cheers!

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Thanks for the feedback and sub Glad to know the video helped

[@stevegraham5494]

Fantastic video! There are so many nuances to TrueNAS that it can get confusing very quickly. I followed your video and it worked the first time. And it helped it all make more sense. Thanks!

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Thanks for the feedback, always appreciated And good to know the video was helpful

[@toolbelt]

Thank you for this video and for taking the time to explain everything as you went along. Extremely helpful.

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Thanks for the feedback Always good to know if a video is useful

[@TAL74]

Many thanks for the very informative content. My Proxmox landscape is getting more and more fun with every video of you, thanks

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

It's a great hypervisor to work with Glad the video was helpful

[@BroodBoyChees]

Thanks! 🙏 I love how you go through and explain everything

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

I appreciate the feedback, always welcome

[@robothtml]

Thank you for this video. Not for the impatient because you go into a ton of detail.

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Yes, I always to go into a lot of detail It's the way my brain is wired

[@XX99XXL]

Excellent well explained and relaxed approach. Very good teacher!

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Thanks for the feedback and good to know the video was helpful

[@sn5101]

Thank you for sharing, David! Best video on the subject I have seen - you explain very well the reasoning behind the choices. One questions I have: why is Proxmox connecting via root? Can I not have proxmox do backups via `proxmox` user for example and not via root? For context: I do other things such as db backups in from my VM to my NAS and there I need to set up the same DB user/group between the NAS and the VM(s) which is a pain, but that's the only way I have found to work so that I don't do each connection via root. Any advice on the subject would be greatly appreciated!

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

It's running on a Linux system and is run as root because it needs access to everything; Basically, the hypervisor will carve up all the hardware into virtual devices and that needs root access You can create other users and assign them permissions but I'm not seeing on option when attaching an NFS share to define access using a specific user account, in which case each server connects as the root user If you setup a backup job, there isn't an option to define a user there either Instead it relies on the authentication used to setup the storage location For NFS, we're stuck with the root account but with SMB/CIFS you can assign a different user account, which makes sense as Windows doesn't have a root account In which case, maybe SMB/CIFS is a better option for you VM network access tends to be independent of the hypervisor PVE might establish its own NAS storage connections, typically for central storage of VMs for instance, but these storage allocations aren't then referenced from within a VM For example, the servers connect to an NFS share and then the VM hard drives are stored on that share All the VM knows about is it has a hard drive and it can't reference that same NFS share via the hypervisor for its own purposes If a VM needs to access a share on the NAS, it doesn't connect to it via the hypervisor Instead, it makes its own connection to a share on the NAS, even if it's the same one the hypervisor uses Having said that, you could create hard drives on different storage for backup redundancy You could have a primary hard drive stored on the server's local drive and install the OS and applications on that for the VM You could then attach another hard drive to the VM, but one stored on an NFS share for instance Any backup run from within the VM is just from one hard drive to another Although doing a backup to the same location is frowned upon, you could create both hard drives on the same NAS share as typically you're dealing with database recovery most of the time After all, everything on the NAS needs to be backed up to something else locally anyway as well as somewhere remote in case things go wrong, so is there is still redundancy there

[@kwaapia]

Very detailed explanation of every option. Exactly what I needed. Pls keep this up. Thank you.

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Good to know the video helped, so thanks for the feedback

[@kwaapia]

@@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone Have you dabbled in building a Hashicorp nomad cluster as an alternative to kubernetes ? ( nomad / vault / consul + tls ) . I have trawled the web and cant find any. Something with a detailed explanation like you provide in all your videos will be gem!

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

@@kwaapia Probably not as even kubernetes isn't on my radar at the moment

[@Mandolorian84]

I wanted to change my nfs location for the VMs. thank you so much for the detailed explination.

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Thanks for the feedback and good to hear the video was helpful

[@RufusCubano]

I spent like 2 weeks searching exactly for a tutorial like this. Thank you so much! One question though, being nfs a network protocol, would using a specific network card (let's say a 10 nic gig card) just for the nfs, be better approach to leave the actual network card free for Internet stuff?

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

I think it would be overkill 10Gb is still a lot of bandwidth and barely gets used, unless you have a lot and I mean a lot of concurrent data transfers So even in a lot of companies you tend to have dual 10Gb NICs for redundancy plus a dedicated management NIC

[@dogpile79]

Extremely helpful and very good to understand. Thank you!

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Thanks for the feedback Good to know the video was helpful

[@zyghom]

super nice - thx, That is what I am don't now having setup my TrueNAS on separated machine. Question I have: 1- I have few NICs on Proxmox and few on TrueNAS 2- how to set up both that for NFS purpose they will use separate NIC, without impacting VM NICs? 3- TrueNAS is connected to 2 segments: 192.168.1.x and 100.x 4- Proxmox has NICs in both segments (some VMs support everybody in the house, so these ones are on VLAN100 while other VMs are "internal only" so they are on VLAN1) thx

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Well before 10Gb networks came along, normally you'd bundle maybe 4 NICs together and rely on VLANs to separate your devices Most clients aren't likely to exceed 1Gb/s as they only have one NIC, so the traffic should get shared across the links Assuming high transfers like backups are done at night, the user experience should be fine But if there are large traffic loads within VLANs, there are options in there to limit traffic flows which can help Although if PVE is showing high traffic exchanges between itself and TrueNAS for instance, and it's affecting users, it might be easier to split those NICs into two bundles This results in the higher volume traffic being on separate physical links Of course you don't have to bundle NICs together Instead you can dedicated ones to different VLANs For me, the preferred method in that situation is to create a bridge for each NIC then assign the relevant VLANs to it along with the VMs

[@Nice49838]

thank you for explaining this root user thing, this solved my problem.

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Good to know the video was helpful

[@ilducedimas]

You sir are a good damn teacher. Thanks

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Good to hear the video was helpful

[@mattsoares608]

This video is exactly what I needed. Thank you.

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Thanks for the feedback and good to know the video was helpful

[@tonys-vids]

Hi David, thanks for the tutorial, helped me setup my Proxmox NFS share as a TrueNAS newbie. Previously I was doing this manually off a Linux NFS server. Only thing I'd like to point out is that in the NFS permissions, Maproot User/Group did not work for me, Proxmox gave an error when it went to create the directory structure, I had to revert to Mapall User/Group for the permissions to work correctly. I'm using a PVE cluster using 8.1.3, so not sure if this is a recent change that's needed by Proxmox?

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Seems odd as I have servers on 8.1.3 and it works fine, although it's been the same process for any Linux computer Did you assign ownership of and permissions to the Dataset to the user? Then did you map the root account to that user and their group in the NFS share? Although it does seem odd why it works for all users instead of just root

[@tonys-vids]

Yes, definitely. One notable difference is I created custom GID/UID of 1010 and assigned them to pvrusr user and pveusr group. In any case it's working albeit perhaps less securely that you had indicated.

[@zeal514]

What do you think of virtualizing TrueNAS, making a ZFS pool, and sharing it across a Proxmox cluster (the same cluster that will be virtualizing TrueNAS). I have 2 fairly good machines capable of running proxmox, but I currently have 1 running Ubuntu server bare metal, with a raid array. I was than thinking of getting a DAS, or a couple of backup drives, and make them a ZFS pool, and use it as a backup pool too the TrueNAS pool.

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

I think the main problem is when you build things with dependencies If PVE is using a VM that provides it with shared storage things can get complicated Will it be possible to migrate that VM to the other node when it comes time to patching PVE or will it require downtime? And if you have enough local storage on both PVE servers anyway would Ceph not be the better option? Maybe having a physical NAS with a virtual NAS as a backup might be the better option as IT design doesn't usually consider double failures

[@zeal514]

@@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone hmm yea I deffintely don't have enough space on both. It's a 15tb array currently, which I intend to expand to 30tb. Trying to go after the cheapest solution. Was considering a DAS.

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

@@zeal514 You could certainly go with a DAS connected to one server, but patching would be a challenge

[@matiastrane7598]

Hello David, I've tried 4 times to comment on your answer on my comment, but it seems i'm not allowed to do that for some reason. Here is my answer: @TechTutorialsDavidMcKone Hi again David, thanks for your reply! The thing is, all videos and guides i've seen does not mount the share within the OS, they do it in Proxmox, configure NFS permissions on the NAS and then they're able to see it in the VM. My VM is Jellyfin and there aren't any settings in it for NFS shares, user permissions, UID or GID - at all. All i've seen that should be required is: create a shared folder in NAS, configure NFS permission (This IP is able to read, write and/or execute), mount the share to the VM in proxmox, open Jellyfin, add new library and there you go. It sounds and looks so simple, i have no idea where my setup is fundamentally different from everybody else's or why. I recently started my journey in homelabbing, so it's also brand new, no crazy configurations.

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

I'm not sure what happened to your previous comments as I don't have any held for review When it comes to VMs, it's best to think of them as a physical computer and ignore the fact that they're running on a hypervisor I'm not aware of a means to mount a share to a VM via Promxox VE, but even if it were possible I wouldn't want to Hypervisors are a high risk device, so connectivity to them should be limited and tightly controlled The only time a computer/VM should be allowed to talk directly to the hypervisor is if it's being used to manage the hypervisor and/or cluster If you're storing your media files on a NAS then you need to configure the operating system that Jellyfin is using to mount an NFS or SMB share to that shared folder, just as you would if Jellyfin was on a physical computer Looking at the website, all of the operating systems that are supported could do that, although I know Windows would need the extra client software installing for NFS In other words, this isn't a configuration done within Jellyfin itself and it has nothing to do with Proxmox VE either An alternative option may be to map the share to Proxmox VE and then add that as a hard drive to the VM The big problem though would be that the media files would then exist within that hard drive image file and they wouldn't be directly accessible to other computers, smart TVs, etc, The media files could only be controlled via access to the VM itself or maybe through Jellyfin

[@rdeckard66]

Thanks a lot for this video! Helped me, as I always got permission denied errors in Proxmox when trying to connect/create the (TrueNAS scale) NFS share. Many YT videos mention that you should create a dedicated user (e.g. proxmox) in TrueNAS. I also did this, but I did not understand the Maproot User setting. And as you can't specify a user/password in Proxmox for NFS-Shares (unlike for SMB-Shares), I did not understand, why you should create a proxmox user in TrueNAS at all. Now, I understand it with your help. ;-)

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Glad the video helped It's an odd feature I admit but back in the days everything used Root so things like Root squashing made sense I would really prefer a non-Root account to map NFS shares from Proxmox, but it still uses Root for everything

[@michaelcooper5490]

David could you do a video on setting up a storage network please (TrueNAS/Proxmox style)? That is something I have been searching for, for a couple of weeks. Thank you. I am very impressed with your teaching ability. You do an awesome job.

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

I've been releasing videos in order so hopefully this will help I did one for setting up TrueNAS Core kzbin.info/www/bejne/gImUi6yIjpibY6c I haven't covered iSCSI as it would need a separate backup solution. I've only ever used it when there's battery backed disk storage to avoid data loss Most servers I've used don't do much disk writes so any performance gains would be lost, although having a SLOG helps for NFS. Which I mentioned for a 10GB NAS I built kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWeTonh_h7N6gqc The network connectivity could just be a dedicated VLAN so that Proxmox has direct access to the NAS and that VLAN will be configured on the physical switch But sometimes there isn't enough NICs, or more bandwidth is needed, so I did videos for creating VLANs for Proxmox, but the rest depends on the switch being used kzbin.info/www/bejne/opvUZ6qir9Nnp9E kzbin.info/www/bejne/opvUZ6qir9Nnp9E

[@michaelcooper5490]

@@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone I saw it, that's why I asked for a Network Storage video?

[@michaelcooper5490]

@@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone Thank you I will give the last two a look. I do appreciate it.

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

@@michaelcooper5490 Can you be more specific because I think any other video on Proxmox and TrueNAS would just repeat what was already covered?

[@michaelcooper5490]

@@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone I think I get the gist. I just have to create a vlan that only those hosts have access on and that would make it an isolated storage network so-to-speak.

[@matiastrane7598]

Hello David, 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?

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

The IP address can block or allow access for a device but it doesn't authenticate as such I haven't used a Synology NAS for some time but in most cases you first you need to decide what folder to share and then set the permissions to allow access to whatever user/group needs access You then need to create an NFS share and set the same permissions there, unless you need to remap a root that is for instance but that's more for servers like PVE than users logged into a VM But once that's done, for VMs you would typically mount the share from within the OS If the user account can only access the top level then re-check the folder and sub-folder permissions Chances are everyone has read-only access and/or the permissions haven't been propagated to the sub-folders and files Now if the VM is running Linux, you can run into problems if the UID (user ID)and GID (group ID) don't match at both ends You can usually check on a Linux computer with this command cat /etc/passwd You should see a list of accounts and the numbers following :x: are the UID then the GID and usually they're the same The NAS on the other hand will probably show these when you edit the user account If they don't match I find it easier to re-create the user account on the NAS although you probably need to update the folder permissions that account needs access to, so it's best done before any files exist

[@stephanenadeau5060]

Thanks a lot for the video, maproot did the trick. Also I'm using NFS ver 4.2 and it doesn't list the path. so you have to type it manually and also select NFS Version: 4.2 instead of Default, if you don't select that it doesn't work.

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Thanks for the feedback Out of curiosity did you hardcode the version on the NFS server end? I prefer the default mode because both sides will then agree what version to use and when a newer version of NFS comes out I won't have to update the mount(s) They should opt for the highest version they both support as part of the negotiation So I'm using TrueNAS Scale as the server and PVE 8.x for instance as the client and both ends have agreed to use 4.2 You can find out what version they pick by running this command on a PVE node nfsstat -m

[@JavierGarcia-wb9ql]

very good job, thanks!!!!

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Good to know the video was useful

[@jimscomments]

Question sir - On another video you had three network set up. If I remember correctly one was the bridge, one was the storage and one was the cluster. The bridge was 172.16.19.0 and in this video a storage network of 172.16.20.0. Your 172.16.20.0 was the separate storage network not the cluster network? Correct?

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Yes, 172.16.20.0/24 was the storage network for access to a NAS in my lab

[@jimscomments]

Thanks for the fast response, the answer fit a couple pieces together nicely. Last April I was struggled to get a NFS share working until I saw this video . I'm visualizing my TrueNAS servers in PVE and re-watched this video which reminded me I hadn't added a storage network. Besides the quality of your videos in general, the time you take to explain things, the detail of information, I also like your additional suggestions on how to make PVE run better. If you celebrate the upcoming holiday please have a nice and safe one.

[@silviumaneahamzau8542]

Super useful! Thanks!

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Good to know the video was useful

[@MrNejix1]

Great video, loved it!

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Thanks for the feedback, always appreciated

[@pr0jectSkyneT]

Let's say I want to make a Proxmox container (LXC) on my local disk because my local disk is a small capacity NVMe drive but I want to be able to mount a NFS share onto said LXC for said container to be able to save on my TrueNAS drives for certain files/directories. How would I be able to mount said TrueNAS NFS share to the LXC?

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

I haven't used LXC containers myself because there's a higher risk of being able to access the OS and in the case of PVE, other VMs etc. So I don't really know I suggest checking the forums as others will have found ways to do this

[@pr0jectSkyneT]

@@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone ok thanks

[@TheBabooner]

Wouldn't storing the VMs on a NAS (and hence most likely a NAS drive) affect performance of the VM versus storing it locally on a SSD or NVMe. Thank you for the great content and the exceptional level of patience

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Thanks for asking Yes, you're right. NAS data transfers will be slower than local storage It's a trade off for reliability and cost savings and makes more sense for clusters If a hypervisor fails you can't easily access the files in its local storage With shared storage, a cluster can get those VMs back up and running much quicker because another server can access them immediately or run another instance as a hot standby If you need to patch a hypervisor you can migrate the VMs quickly because you only copy things like the VM's RAM and CPU state. With local storage you would also have to copy the VM's hard drive(s) over the network from one local storage to another Another appeal for me is I just have to back up the NAS because it has direct access to these VM files Granted, when you first build a VM it will take much longer to install an OS like Windows if it's stored on a NAS, but if you're counting the minutes then you could always install it to local storage then migrate it to the NAS afterwards Once the VM is up and running though, the differences aren't so noticeable because the operating system and application you run is loaded into RAM anyway But it would be a bigger issue if you've got something like a database that needs to perform a lot of disk writes Granted the NAS is a single point of failure in all this, but the ones I've had over the years have been very reliable. They only get replaced when it feels necessary Just checked and this once has been running 24x7 for nearly 7 years, yikes

[@TheBabooner]

@@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone you Sir are a scholar and a gentleman. Thank you for taking so much time of your day to respond.

[@richardcole5826]

@@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone what about setting up Ceph Pools in Proxmox, especially for the VM files.... It seems to be a great new option and as far as resilience, your NFS is a single point of failure, as apposed to having files synced to multiple cluster nodes. In some cases, you can eliminate the expense of an expensive storage array for the VM's by using the nodes local disks, in a Ceph Pool and usually the cluster nodes have plenty of untapped drive bays..

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

@@richardcole5826 I did look into it a while ago, but my concern is when you have a small cluster You need a minimum of 3 nodes to run Ceph, but I understand it's better to have more For me, that means one more server to run 24x7 rather than 2 PVE servers and a low power qdevice Another thing that's nagging me is how many hard drives this would "burn" through versus simple replication to a backup NAS You also really need to to aim for 10GB connectivity for this, so the cost keeps going up

[@r2d23kk]

This is great! Thank you

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

NFS is really useful Good to know the video was useful

[@neuro112]

How do I go about making a nextcloud dataset and creating nfs share on proxmox? For the user/group, do I set it as www-data or pveuser? Do I need to change the mapalluser/group to www-data or pveuser?

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

I haven't used Nextcloud myself so maybe someone else can suggest a better strategy This video is more about setting up NFS for shared storage in Proxmox so that VMs can be stored there to provide redundancy against node failure The thing is, Proxmox runs using the root account and the configuration doesn't offer the option to set a user account so that's why it's been setup as shown Assuming Nextcloud can be configured to connect to an NFS share and it supports user accounts in that configuration, it would be better to setup that NFS share with permissions assigned to a user account such as www-data you've mentioned

[@dimitristsoutsouras2712]

At 22:58 why didn t you force to use the latest NFS version since both prox and Truenas are able to use V4 + How could you make sure up to which version each system could use? Any command in cli on both prox and TrueNas?

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

It's mainly to keep the admin simple In a lab for instance, servers get built, replaced, etc. so ideally I'd prefer to just set the version on the NAS and leave the server untouched This way both sides will negotiate the best version they can support and I'm controlling that choice in one place I have one NAS for instance which lets me disable v2/v3 and although it offers nothing more specific than v4, proxmox has negotiated v4.2 with it Unfortunately, Truenas only seems to allow you to enable v4 within the NFS service, but proxmox has negotiated v4.1 with it So if I can't disable v3 in Truenas, then any client could force it down to v3, so I don't see any security gain in hard coding the server As far as I'm aware we're still waiting for support of v4.2 in FreeBSD But if/when that becomes available, it means these servers will switch to that without me having to make any changes to them Anyway, if you want to check what version your proxmox servers are using, open a shell on one of them and run the following command nfsstat -m

[@dimitristsoutsouras2712]

@@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone Nice. I am using scale instead of core but it also has only enable nfsv4, without specifying which version. nfsstat -m (I thought it would be --version -v for some reason -v brings a lot of output in a form like running htop) showed nfs v3 :( I used from the same storage of truenas connected with prox with 10g connection and attached, 2 extra disks to a win serv VM. One with disk format qcow2 and the other with raw disk type. I then downloaded a 4gb file and tried to copy it to those attached storages . The storage based on format qcow 2 achieved 560 -790mb/s while the one based on raw one, started with 450 and seconds later dropped down to 40-45mb/s for the entire transfer. Results seems to me upside down from what it should be.

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

I'm surprised it selected v3 as scale is based on Debian, similar to openmediavault and the OS supports v4.2 Did you restart the NFS service after selecting v4? I haven't tried scale myself as I just want a basic NAS and core seems to win the performance battle

[@dimitristsoutsouras2712]

@@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone No possibly the issue is me not selecting - enabling v4 at first place. Let it decide via auto-nagotiation. I ll enable it and check again. By the way nfsstand command has no effect on scale's cli. I know that core is more performant than scale but I ve chosen scale for extra apps and free bsd seems to be left behind evolution. I prefer a more unified linux environment New Edit: well after selecting v4 on TrueNas and restarting service (rebooted proxmox as well) running command nfsstat -m showed 4.2 Now I am trying to figre out what would be best to choose as that extra storage for the WinSerVM... raw disk type or qcow2 and with what sync options

[@DarudeSandworm]

I think the part I'm missing is the "giving it access to the NAS part" but you kind of skipped it.

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Not quite sure what you mean, can you clarify please? In the video I set up an NFS share in TrueNAS as an example and allowed access to it for a dedicated user account I also created However, Proxmox will use its root account to connect and doesn't provide an option in the GUI to set user credentials for login So on the NAS, the NFS share was configured to map the root user to the user we allowed access for Next I showed how to connect to that NFS share from Proxmox so I'm not sure what part is missing

[@rudypieplenbosch6752]

That was the essential part, so now we know the Proxmox root account is used, pretty weird, so I need to change my root account on my Truenas in order to let Proxmox in ? Probably it can be done in another way.

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

It's best to not to allow root access This is because if you do, that user has the potential to try and access other part of the system using root privileges So what I did in the video was create a dedicated account for NFS access only I then used the NFS option to squash root account access on the share so that Proxmox ends up with the rights of this user instead, and all that has access to is the data in that folder Granted anyone on the network can access the share, so it's best to have this storage network restricted, but isolated storage is a common best practice anyway

[@rudypieplenbosch6752]

@@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone Yes I know, but you just should have added the part where you create an extra user on proxmox and with those credentials you initialize the access to the NFS share, it would have been more clear. Now this essential info is missing and that is a bit of a shame since you spend quite some effort on this tutorial.

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Proxmox doesn't offer a user account option for NFS in the GUI and instead it tries to connect as root So there is no point creating a user account on Proxmox if we can't use it Now for most computer systems, the guidance is to not allow remote root user access but Proxmox doesn't care In which case we compromise and allow access to the share as long as we see an attempt to connect as root, and it doesn't matter what password is sent It's a terrible idea really but it's the lesser of two evils and bear in mind these sort of systems were built when a root account was the only account being used Like other storage solutions then, our main security comes from only allowing legitimate computers to have direct physical access to the NAS But we now have an extra problem to resolve The NAS uses file permissions on its files and folders, so we still need to see some user account being used, it just can't be root To deal with this, we configure NFS to ignore the root account from Proxmox and substitute it for our pvuser account we created on Truenas and made owner of the folder Proxmox doesn't know about this account and still think it's connected as root Truneas on the other hand, treats the connection as if pveuser has logged in Although this would be the same on another NAS using NFS

[@PlaceholderforBjorn]

Great guide!

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Thanks for the feedback and good to know the video was helpful

[@PlaceholderforBjorn]

@@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone That wasn't that great feedback 😆. But here it comes: What I really liked with the guide is that you explained every single part that you touched during the video. Especially with the permissions on TrueNAS, as that was one of the hardest things to grasp when I was new to TrueNAS. I relearned something I've forgotten, first that you need to use maproot/mapall on TrueNAS. And that on NFS you connect to the share as root, and you can have some permission conflicts if you don't use maproot/mapall. And with that I have some shares I need to update/revise to make them more secure. Most tubers doesn't explain things like this in detail, and I really need to understand the basic before I can, or especially want, to use a special feature. Because of security.

[@arkaditadevosyan5819]

just awesome

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Good to know the video was helpful

[@andreusfigueiredodesouza7901]

Thanks It's work for me

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Thanks for the feedback, really appreciated And good to know the video helped

[@Ohamdaoui]

Could you change the title from Proxmox NFS Share to TrueNas NFS Share

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

I admit, it could do with a title change as the algorithms have changed But the video was more for how to connect Proxmox to NFS shared storage

[@royrowan4664]

Thanks!

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Thank you. I really appreciate your contribution to the channel

[@ianwilliams7740]

This doesnt help for people that want to share an existing Share on a NAS with multiple containers/VMs via NFS.. This is about creating virtual disks on a SAN via NFS...

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

That's true Connecting VMs to a shared drive for instance is independent of the hypervisor This isn't something you would do within Proxmox VE itself Instead you configure the NFS client within the OS of each VM and how you do that depends on what its OS is

[@andrewmaynard6693]

good video!

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Good to hear the video was useful

[@coolchap22]

Hi, was able to mount in proxmox using the tutorial. I have mounted NFS in my container using a mount point. I am using transmission to directly download the file on the NFS share. I am getting permission denied. Any pointers to solve?

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Is it the container that's being denied access? If so it's independent of Proxmox and will have its own method of authentication so it depends on how you've set up the mount You could try the map all option instead of map root as a quick way to see if it's a user authentication problem Does the NFS server restrict access to certain IP addresses as that's a possibility? Another reason I've found is if the NFS server has DNS issues and can't resolve the client's hostname. It's part of a security check and results in a connection but no actual access

[@coolchap22]

@@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone hi, thanks for the quick reply. I can create folder or files from shell in container. Its transmission who is troubling

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

I'm a bit confused so please help me better understand the situation Have you mapped to an NFS share on a NAS from a Linux container in Proxmox? In the shell, you can create and edit a file on that share but can't copy a file to it? Or is the issue that an application running in the container can't send a file?

[@coolchap22]

@@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone, I have mapped nfs to proxmox node and then a mount point in container.

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Not sure what to suggest really as it sounds like a configuration issue and I'm not familiar enough with this strategy I just run a NAS and map everything to that so it's not something I run into It could even be an AppArmor issue like I found in a reddit post: _"I also had some issues with apparmor, but I solved it as described below. Edit these files on Proxmox and add the following line at the end of the file inside the last bracket } # nano /etc/apparmor.d/lxc/lxc-default-cgns mount fstype=nfs # nano /etc/apparmor.d/lxc/lxc-default-with-mounting mount fstype=nfs* And then restart the AppArmor (or host)._

[@jenniferw8963]

Proxmox is really pissing me off. I spent 6 hours so far trying to get the GUI to create a NFS storage. The NFS share mounts fine in the shell / cli using mount. But it says it's offline when I use the gui.

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Can't say I've run into problems on the Proxmox side as such If it helps, you can check /etc/pve/storage.cfg to compare what you're doing in the CLI versus what Proxmox is doing via the GUI I've had permissions problems and firewall restrictions that have stopped NFS working but that's been resolved on the NFS server And there's not a lot of options available in the Proxmox GUI anyway so I would suggest checking the NFS server logs You can also run tail -f /var/log/syslog on the Proxmox side when you try to create a connection Or resort to tcpdump to try and figure out where things are going wrong

[@pelican-p6u]

content of 10 min becomes half an hour with fake ppl like this

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

Thanks for the feedback, always appreciated I'm always looking for ways to improve the videos I put out So when you say 10 mins do you mean you watched for 10 mins then gave up because you couldn't find what you were looking for? Or did you find what you want but you only wanted to see a demonstration without explanation and so would have preferred a shorter video?

[@dimitristsoutsouras2712]

First of all let me express my gratitude for that quick screen at 19:20 with a little alphanumerical string What the above line means is that at lastttttttttttt a person shown except from just clicking add storage and filling out the blanks in order for the nas server to show up the share, you ve shown the network tab!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes it might seem simple t omany but it isnt . One picture more than a thousand words. By that pic I noticed I was right on forums where I literally cant rememebr the dozens of times I asked -does proxmox needs only vmbrs to work? -can t just put a static address to the nic-port-interface and have a static ip from the relevant port at nas side and communicate with each other this way? Those two simple damn questions never been answered not even at prox forums by gurus. The why eludes me even today. By that screen of yours (printscreened it / printed it to a wall wallpaper size :)) you can assume the following as well -when a vmbr is created on top of a nic-port-interface then that nic-port-interface shouldn t auto start because then goodbye proxmox gui or net access at all (happened more than once after updates that damn thing goes to /etc/network/interfaces and adds a line above the port / ports of the vmbr with auto enps70 and below follows the correct line iface enps70 inet manual) So bottom line for this is only bond or vmbr containing that port has to autostart not the correlated port - you proved and answer to me at least that you can set up a port-nic-interface without having to create a bridge on top of that. Now my last questions about the network connection between NAS=PROXMOX are -do you use a 10gb connection / DAC cable to connect them together? -if yes on how many fields did you have to set MTU to 9000 in order to enable jumbo frames In proxmox level there is that MTU value for port / bond and bridge. Do you use it for all of them (in case you use the 10gb connection on top of a bond on top of 2 10gb ports for instance). A recent answer I had about this was / sounds reasonable. -how come and you didn t use iscsi connection and preferred the NFS which adds the synced writes delay? -i have the same setup as you and when I go from proxmox's cli and ping nas's ip, it is inaccessible. pretty sure / double checked cables /nic cards and settings (ok those are easy to setup)

[@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone]

I don't use 10GB at the moment Although Jumbo frames applies more to large file transfers I've only seen a need for this on my physical network so far, even though the computers are on 1GB, as I make videos and it made a big difference for 20GB+ file transfers But I haven't done this for Proxmox as the VMs I run rarely do large data transfers once they're up and running So I couldn't really say where it's most efficient to make these changes I used to use iSCSI in the past, but you needed a separate backup system to access the share and then back that up somewhere else The main reason I switched to NFS is because the NAS can access these files and it's much easier, quicker and cheaper to let the NAS run its own backup system Besides, I don't want to have to restore an entire iSCSI share just to restore a file for one VM Yes, iSCSI is faster and that's in part because the writes aren't synced by default, but a power loss for iSCSI is more likely to lead to data loss NFS seems fine for me as once the VMs are built and running in RAM I don't notice any latency As for not being able to ping your NAS, check the interface is active and Proxmox can ping its own IP address. I got caught out by that once as it's not so obvious when an interface isn't active

[@dimitristsoutsouras2712]

@@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone Nice points you mentioned there. As for the connection the port was active and after I managed to get on my hands another 10g nic it worked at once. So there might be a hardware failure or something. Thank you once more.