Proxmox from scratch · Part 4
Storage in Proxmox
by Jan Holbo RasmussenThis is the fourth part of Proxmox from scratch. In part 2 and part 3 we created a virtual machine and a container, and both times I put their disks on a storage called vmdatanvme and promised to explain it later. This is later.
The post has two halves. The first is a tour: how Proxmox thinks about storage, and the kinds it can use, from a folder on the server’s own disk to Ceph spread over several servers. The second is what I do on my own servers, and here there is a twist. In part 7 my servers become a cluster, and in part 8 guests move between them. For that to work, the storage has to be set up the same way on every server, and that is easiest to get right now, before there is a cluster.
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