From the course: Proxmox Virtual Environment Essential Training
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Add local storage - Proxmox VE Tutorial
From the course: Proxmox Virtual Environment Essential Training
Add local storage
- [Instructor] Here on my system, I have a 512-gigabyte SSD, and that's going to be fine for storing my VM and container disc images. SSDs are nice for that because they're fast, and so when the VMs access their discs, that will be fast too. But my storage here is fairly small, so that makes the space valuable. I don't want to waste it with things like ISO images for operating system installers or things like backups that don't really need to be on fast storage. So I'll need to add some more storage to the system. There's two broad kinds of storage we'll work with in PVE. There's local storage where a storage is physically part of an individual node and network storage where a network resource like a NAS or SAN is attached to the data center via NFS or SMB or something like that and is available for nodes to use. I want to focus on local storage here, and we'll explore network storage a little bit later. When we're working with storage, there are two types that we need to be aware of,…
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