[PVE-User] DeviceMapper devices get filtered by Proxmox

[Alwin Antreich]

Hi Uwe,

July 26, 2023 10:37 AM, "Uwe Sauter" <uwe.sauter.de at gmail.com> wrote:


> If you have air-gapped systems and no containers in your environment, using cephadm would require a
> whole lot of effort just to make the containers available. On the other hand Proxmox provides this
> very nice tool to mirror repositories… just saying.
I guess it depends from which angle you're looking at it. Local registry vs POM. :)

> I need to disagree on that one. The WebUI disk overview does not show the multipath devices, only
> the member disks. Yes, there is a comment stating that a device is a multipath member but no way to
> select the multipath device itself. So, from a users point of view, PVE does not support multipath,
> it just recognizes multipath members.
> And the Create ZFS and Create LVM Volume Group setup pop-ups show neither multipath members nor
> multipath devices.
I agree, while you can use multipath [0], it isn't integrated into the PVE tooling.

Anyway, I hope your PoC turns out as expected.

Cheers,
Alwin

[0] https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/ISCSI_Multipath