Logo

Your Personal Sysadmin

Moving lvm-thin volumes on proxmox between vm-s or ct-s

Following this official howto

lvs shows you all volumes in their volume group (in my case ‘ssd’)

LV               VG  Attr       LSize    Pool        Data%  Meta%
data             pve twi-a-tz-- 32.12g               0.00   1.58
root             pve -wi-ao---- 16.75g
swap             pve -wi-ao---- 8.00g
guests           ssd twi-aotz-- <2.33t               74.93  45.51
vm-100-disk-0    ssd Vwi-a-tz-- 12.00g guests        72.69
vm-101-disk-0    ssd Vwi-a-tz-- 12.00g guests        85.22
vm-101-disk-1    ssd Vwi-a-tz-- 50.00g guests        99.95
vm-102-disk-0    ssd Vwi-a-tz-- 12.00g guests        97.57
vm-102-disk-1    ssd Vwi-a-tz-- 50.00g guests        64.54
vm-103-disk-0    ssd Vwi-a-tz-- 12.00g guests        74.37
vm-103-disk-1    ssd Vwi-a-tz-- 150.00g guests        52.42
vm-104-disk-0    ssd Vwi-a-tz-- 12.00g guests        90.74
vm-104-disk-1    ssd Vwi-a-tz-- 10.00g guests        95.27
vm-105-disk-0    ssd Vwi-a-tz-- 12.00g guests        55.79
vm-105-disk-1    ssd Vwi-a-tz-- 10.00g guests        32.89
vm-106-disk-0    ssd Vwi-a-tz-- 12.00g guests        77.78
vm-106-disk-1    ssd Vwi-a-tz-- 10.00g guests        99.82
vm-107-disk-0    ssd Vwi-a-tz-- 32.00g guests        0.00
vm-107-disk-1    ssd Vwi-a-tz-- 500.00g guests        95.41
vm-108-disk-0    ssd Vwi-aotz-- 8.00g guests        43.73
vm-109-disk-0    ssd Vwi-a-tz-- 12.00g guests        52.41
vm-109-disk-1    ssd Vwi-a-tz-- 50.00g guests        2.22
vm-110-disk-0    ssd Vwi-a-tz-- 12.00g guests        51.14
vm-110-disk-1    ssd Vwi-a-tz-- 50.00g guests        2.22
vm-111-disk-0    ssd Vwi-a-tz-- 12.00g guests        84.85
vm-111-disk-1    ssd Vwi-a-tz-- 100.00g guests        16.97
vm-112-disk-0    ssd Vwi-a-tz-- 8.00g guests        13.53
vm-113-disk-0    ssd Vwi-a-tz-- 8.00g guests        11.55
vm-114-disk-0    ssd Vwi-a-tz-- 16.00g guests        84.31
vm-115-disk-0    ssd Vwi-a-tz-- 16.00g guests        97.12
vm-116-disk-0    ssd Vwi-a-tz-- 8.00g guests        31.49
vm-117-cloudinit ssd Vwi-aotz-- 4.00m guests        50.00
vm-117-disk-0    ssd Vwi-aotz-- 10.00g guests        39.71
vm-117-disk-1    ssd Vwi-aotz-- 1000.00g guests        97.47

If the id of the new ct or vm is not equal to the id of the volume’s previous attachment, rename them, i.e.

lvrename ssd/vm-101-disk-1 ssd/vm-117-disk-2

this will make vm-101-disk-1 available as vm-117-disk-2, you have to increase the count in the end of the name.

then edit the config of the actual vm.

take the line from /etc/pve/qemu-server/<vm id>.conf that describes the volume to the new <vm id>.conf

the tricky thing was to run qm rescan afterwards which fixed syntax and made the volume appear in the web gui where i could finally attache it to the new vm.

Hey! I'll happily receive your comments via email

Andreas Wagner
Freelance System Administrator from Tallinn, Estonia.