Basic storage configurations

You can configure a storage in a Proxmox cluster through both a GUI and CLI. Refer to the Accessing datacenter-specific menus recipe in Chapter 2, Getting to Know the Proxmox GUI for storage GUI options. The storage configuration is stored in the /etc/pve/storage.cfg directory path.

How to do it…

You can edit this file directly to add storages, through the Proxmox GUI, and the configurations get saved automatically. The following screenshot is of a storage configuration file as it appears after a clean install of Proxmox:

The storage configuration usually has the following multiline format:

<type of storage> : <storage_id>
         <path_to_storage>
         <enable/disable share>
         content types
         maxfiles <numeric value of maximum backups to keep>

Based on the configuration, there is a local storage attached to a Proxmox cluster where all the files are going to be stored in the /var/lib/vz local directory path...