[PVE-User] Unable to provision a virtual machine on local storage by cloning a template from a shared storage

[Ntrs Ntrs]

This is just a test setup, so the risk with running two nodes is ok. Thanks for your answer. If I understand correctly our assumption that our use case is not possible with proxmox is correct. We want to be able to clone a template from a shared storage to a local storage on the node. I don’t see why that would not be technically possible, it is just copying one file from one disk to another. Both disks are visible on the node, one as an NFS mount and the other as a local disk. Is this something that proxmox can possibly add as a feature in the future or is there some limitation we are not able to see as end users?

Thanks.

NT


> On Jul 30, 2019, at 4:23 PM, Ronny Aasen <ronny+pve-user at aasen.cx> wrote:
> 
> On 30.07.2019 20:05, Ntrs Ntrs wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> We have 2 nodes (Prox1 and Prox2) in a cluster. Each node has local-lvm LVM for KVM guests and shared NFS mount for templates available on both nodes.
>> 
>> Prox1 storage:
>>  - Local LVM
>>  - shared NFS mount
>> 
>> Prox2 storage:
>>  - Local LVM
>>  - shared NFS mount
>> 
>> The templates are located on Prox1 on the NFS storage.  When cloning a template from Prox1 to Prox2 the only option for 'Target storage' is the shared NFS storage, which is a deal-breaker for us.
>> 
>> Is it possible to clone a template from one node to another if the destination storage is not shared (i.e. not available on the source node)? Are we doing something wrong?
>> 
>> In our case we want to clone a template from Prox 1 stored on the shared NFS mount to Prox 2 on the local LVM. This is required in order to use commercially available billing software that lists the templates from a single common location (the shared NFS mount) on the order form and provisions the KVM virtual server on the first available node on it’s local LVM storage.
> 
> 
> just a check... since you have only 2 nodes I assume you have found a different way to deal with the split brain problem of no quorum, when a node dies/restarts ? your cluster will of course crash and die on a node reboot if you have not.
> 
> 
> If the template is on non-shared storage on a node, it can only be cloned to storage on that node. If the template is on shared storage, it can be cloned to shared storage on any node.
> so you can have the template as qcow2image on shared nfs you can clone it to a  vm on the shared nfs on any node. once the vm is up you can live migrate the local if you need that.
> 
> i do not know the software you talk about. but perhaps you can do some tricks like.. not have a prox template, only the disk image on nfs and instantiate a new vm with a copy of that disk image. or perhaps have the same template as a copy on each node using the same source disk.
> 
> 
> good luck
> 
> Ronny
> 
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