Starwind x Proxmox Plugin on Proxmox 9

[yaroslav (staff)]

My colleagues last tests test showed no issues... you are welcome to test.

[ninthswat]

Hi, is thin supposed to be working on PVE9 using current version of plugin? We just tried it, a VM with 4TB disk took 4TB on storage.

[tritonb7@gmail.com]

I'm curious about this too. Are snapshots thin?

[tritonb7@gmail.com]

Hi, is thin supposed to be working on PVE9 using current version of plugin? We just tried it, a VM with 4TB disk took 4TB on storage.

Do you have any errors removing the snapshot?

[yaroslav (staff)]

Hi,

It looks like the issue might still be there. Please keep an eye on the release notes.

[ninthswat]

Snapshots can be taken and removed, but reverting is given error.

Thin is not working as expected.

Lets wait for updated version and see how it goes.

[yaroslav (staff)]

Yeah, sorry for misleading everyone... I was under the impression that some moves were made on our side.
Sorry again.

[ninthswat]

Yaroslav, do you have some insiders ETA for updated plugin version?

[yaroslav (staff)]

Sorry, not really.
I hope sometime next month, but those dates move all the time. Don't want to let down another user with the ever-changing estimates.
I will set the reminder to update this thread tho.

[marantz]

Any, hopefuly good, news in this topic?

[yaroslav (staff)]

The release should be there shortly. I hope.

[echo]

I did some digging and figured out why snapshot rollback is not working with the current version of the plugin. In Proxmox 9, the Proxmox devs added a volume_rollback_is_possible function to the storage plugin API. Because the Starwind plugin inherits from the LVM storage plugin, Proxmox is expecting the VM volume to be a qcow2 file (to support the snapshots-as-volume-chain feature on LVM added in Proxmox 9). To get around this, you can add the following code to /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Storage/Custom/StarLvmPlugin.pm:

sub volume_rollback_is_possible {
my ($class, $scfg, $storeid, $volname, $snap, $blockers) = @_;

return 1;
}

Then run:
systemctl restart pvedaemon

In my somewhat limited testing, I am able to take and revert snapshots of VM volumes on StarWind plugin backed storage, including snapshots with and without RAM. Obviously, we still could use an updated storage plugin that fully implements the new storage API, but I hope this is helpful to anyone in a situation similar to my own. Run this in production at your own risk.

[yaroslav (staff)]

Thanks for your update!
I hope for a proper fix arriving shortly.