Proxmox has excellent plugins for the mainstream storage options. In this section, we are going to see which storage plugins are integrated into Proxmox and also see how to use them to connect to different storage types in Proxmox. The following are the storage types that are natively supported as of Proxmox VE 5.0:
- Directory
- LVM
- NFS
- ZFS
- Ceph RBD
- GlusterFS
The Directory
storage is a mounted folder on the Proxmox local node. It is mainly used as local storage. But we can also mount a remote folder in a different node and use that mount point to create a new Directory
storage. By default, this location is mounted under /var/lib/vz
.
Any VM stored in this Directory
storage does not allow live migration. The VM must be stopped before migrating to another node. All virtual disk image file types can be stored in the Directory
storage. To create a new storage with a mount point, go to Datacenter
| Storage
, and click on Add
to select the Directory
plugin. The following screenshot...