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Proxmox VE 2.x With Software Raid Proxmox Virtual Environment is an easy to use Open Source virtualization platform for running Virtual Appliances and Virtual Machines. Proxmox does not officially support software raid but I have found software raid to be very stable and in some cases have had better luck with it than hardware raid.
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Proxmox is our company name, not the product name. Please correct the name of your guide to "Proxmox VE 2.x with Software Raid" thanks, Martin
Thanks for the hint! I've just changed the title.
OK on first try.
Nice work. Thanks
Bravo! Excellent guide; installation worked perfectly as described. This really should be an "official" proxmox how-to.
Following these steps now. In the sfdisk block, it looks like you might have grabbed more than the results from the one command. I'm new at howtoforge so I'm not sure if I can fix it for you or if you own this page.
But I found a perfectly functioning is described in:
http://www.petercarrero.com/content/2012/04/22/adding-software-raid-proxmox-ve-20-install
I also started using this tutorial and eventually ended up using the tutorial from Peter Carrero's site posted above. If you're installing proxmox ve 3.0, I'd start with Carrero's instructions. Just make sure you clear your array's superblock (ie. mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdb1) before creating your raid arrays. Also, stick with ext3 as other commentators have noted. Much faster.
Just installed Proxmox VE2.2 and I wanted to follow the guide, but very first command hit a wall:
root@jigglypuff:~# apt-get install mdadm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package mdadm is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'mdadm' has no installation candidate
root@jigglypuff:~#
No joy in this room right now.