Anyone had success on Proxmox Worker on shared storage

[sys92]

On kb docs its mentioned that : "The default local storage must be enabled on all hosts where worker VMs will be deployed. If you cannot use the default storage in your environment, contact Veeam Customer Support." when I raised ticket, engineer was suggesting to use local storage only.

Kindly someone share the method to configure shared storage for proxmox workers (Since local storage disk is just 480GB I cannot use it for worker).

I have a shared volume (FC-SAN LVM) available where all the vm are hosted .

I am reaching forum since support request case was not useful (Case #07905795 ). we procured license exclusively for vmware to proxmox migration now basic support sucks!

[rovshan.pashayev]

Hi,

Veeam Plug-in for Proxmox VE requires at least one file-level storage (such as NFS) configured in the Proxmox Virtual Environment. This is because the plug-in does not support environments that rely solely on LVM-based storage, please see the User Guide.

This storage is used not only to deploy worker VMs but also to store data generated during backup of protected VMs.

As a workaround, you can create a VM on your LVM storage and configure it as an NFS server. Then, add this NFS share to Proxmox Storage. This will allow you to store workers and the data generated during backup of protected VMs.

[rovshan.pashayev]

Hi @s@sys92

Were you able to try the NFS‑based workaround and see if it suited your environment?

[pascalb97]

Hi,

I have similar questions, since we are facing the same challenge of integrating Veeam with Proxmox using FC-SAN based shared LVM storage (like many others).

1. When enabling snapshot-as-volume-chains (I am able to snapshot VMs in Proxmox using that), does Veeam still store snapshot data on that file-level snapshot storage?
2. If so, how big should that Snapshot storage be? We plan to migrate VMs with up to ca. 30TB of used space from our VMware infra to Proxmox and we are running many VMs in general. These are VMs we are already backing up with Veeam configured for VMware. Do I theoretically need a 30TB snapshot storage for that (when running a full backup for example)?

I am looking forward to you answers, thanks for your support!