How to Move Your VM and Container Storage (PVE)

hey everybody jeremy here bringing you another video today we're going to look at moving storage for a vm from one location to another proxxbox makes this pretty easy we're going to pick on this uh next cloud clone vm if we come in under hardware we can see that the virtual hard disk is currently located on the iso and templates storage location and i'd actually rather have that on local so to do this we're going to come up here to disk action and say move storage from here we select our option for moving the storage and we'll say we're going to put it on local zfs now there's one additional option here and that is to delete the source after the disk is copied to the new location it's going to delete from the old location now of course you want to take your normal precautions with this and make sure you have some sort of a backup in place in case something goes horribly wrong which is not likely but it could happen so we're going to go ahead and say delete source i know i've got this backed up and this was a vm i used for another video so it's not of the utmost importance and then we'll just click move disk as you can see it's creating a full clone it's going to transfer the storage and then it'll delete the old location all right so we've reached the end screen here you can say we can go ahead and close this and if we look here hard disk is located on local zfs you can also verify coming down here and vm 1002 which is the next cloud clone so the acid test for this is going to be to go ahead and fire this up and it should launch the same as normal so far so good and in just another moment here we'll have our vm up and running all right so everything is good to go and we can go ahead and launch our updates so as you can see this process is rather trivial if you need to move the location of your virtual machines because of adding a new disk because of expanding an array or any of a number of other situations where you might need to relocate the disk again this is not something that you really have to do on a regular basis i would say i certainly have not really done this previous um to just a few weeks ago when i discovered this and you know it's one of those things that it's good to know it's there and maybe even to practice once in a while doing this but again it's not something that you're going to use in everyday operation of a proxmox server while this is running i just want to pop over here to one of the other servers uh we'll take a look here here's a pie hole container and the same thing exists for containers so this disc is currently on storage procs and if we wanted to move it to local lvm the process is the same you select your disk in for a container you come to volume action and the options the same move storage you select your storage destination delete source and move volume and in just a moment or two this will be done and we could fire up this pie hole container all right and just like that we've got the task okay we can close this window we can see that the disk is now on local lvm we can edit that and there's nothing really we want to change there so we can come here to console and go ahead and start the container and it should boot up just as you would expect and we're on our way doing the updates there we come back to our next cloud clone we can see that it's still running updates so in a nutshell that is moving storage from one proxmox volume to another and hopefully you found this interesting and useful if you have not done so already please take a moment to like and subscribe and i hope to see you in the next video thanks for watching i'll see you in the next one you

Channel: Practical IT with Jeremy Leik

Views: 4,154

Keywords: proxmox, proxmox container, proxmox container storage, proxmox ve, proxmox ve storage, proxmox virtual environment, proxmox vm, proxmox vm storage

Id: bLXM-mzQlic

Length: 7min 59sec (479 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 20 2022