Storage - Proxmox VE
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/StorageSee Also. The Proxmox VE storage model is very flexible. Virtual machine images can either be stored on one or several local storages, or on shared storage like NFS or iSCSI (NAS, SAN). There are no limits, and you may configure as many storage pools as you like. You can use all storage technologies available for Debian Linux.
Linux Container - Proxmox VE
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Linux_ContainerThe “Proxmox Container Toolkit” ( pct) simplifies the usage and management of LXC, by providing an interface that abstracts complex tasks. Containers are tightly integrated with Proxmox VE. This means that they are aware of the cluster setup, and they can use the same network and storage resources as virtual machines.
Backup and Restore - Proxmox VE
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Backup_and_RestoreProxmox VE live backup provides snapshot-like semantics on any storage type. It does not require that the underlying storage supports snapshots. Also please note that since the backups are done via a background Qemu process, a stopped VM will appear as running for a short amount of time while the VM disks are being read by Qemu.
snapshot | Proxmox Support Forum
https://forum.proxmox.com/tags/snapshot17.12.2021 · qcow2 snapshot creation takes too long. We have a Proxmox 6.1-5 Server running with a VM which has 3 harddisks configured. The virtual disks are all qcow2 files hosted on the local filesystem. The VM performance is ok even under heavy load. My problem is, that it takes ages to create a snapshot of this VM even if theVM is powered...