#storage
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How to Add Local Directory Storage in Proxmox VE (Step-by-Step Guide)
Got a spare disk in your Proxmox host and don't want to deal with ZFS? Here's how to format it, mount it, and add it as directory storage for ISOs, backups, and VM disks.
How to Pass Through an NVMe SSD to a VM in Proxmox VE (PCIe and Raw Disk Methods)
Give a VM direct, low-overhead access to a physical NVMe drive using PCIe (VFIO) passthrough or raw disk passthrough in Proxmox VE, including IOMMU setup, driver binding, and the hardware quirks that trip people up.
How to Deploy a Hyper-Converged Ceph Cluster in Proxmox VE (Step-by-Step Setup Guide)
Turn the local disks in your Proxmox VE nodes into one shared, self-healing storage pool. Install Ceph, create monitors, managers, and OSDs, build a pool, and wire it up as VM storage.
How to Create ZFS Storage in Proxmox VE (Step-by-Step Guide)
Turn spare disks into self-healing storage. This beginner guide shows how to build a ZFS pool in Proxmox VE using the GUI or CLI, then add it as usable storage for VMs and containers.
How to Upload ISO Files to Proxmox VE (And Use Them to Install a VM)
Your Create VM wizard's ISO dropdown is empty and you're stuck before you've started. Here are three reliable ways to get an ISO onto Proxmox VE, from browser upload to Download from URL to scp.
How to Resize a Virtual Disk in Proxmox VE (Without Losing Data)
Your Proxmox VM's disk is full and you don't want to rebuild it. Here's how to grow a virtual disk safely in Proxmox VE 9.2, then extend the partition and filesystem inside Linux or Windows guests.
Speeding Up HDD-Backed ZFS Pools in Proxmox VE with a Special Device
HDD-backed ZFS pools on Proxmox VE and PBS choke on metadata-heavy operations like garbage collection and snapshot listing. Here's how a mirrored ZFS special device fixes it, with diagnosis, commands, and sizing guidance.
Speeding Up Metadata-Heavy Workloads on Proxmox VE with ZFS Special Allocation Class Vdevs
Directory listings and PBS garbage collection crawling on an otherwise fast ZFS pool? A special allocation class vdev moves metadata off spinning disks and onto SSD without rebuilding the pool.
How to Add a Second Hard Drive to a Proxmox VM
A step-by-step guide to adding a second virtual disk to a Proxmox VE virtual machine, from the Proxmox GUI through partitioning, formatting, and mounting it inside Linux.
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