Proxmox Iso Location

Proxmox iso storage location

How to upload an ISO file to your Proxmox VE installation. To add ISO images to proxmox server, login to server as user root, then go to folder '/var/lib/vz/template/iso'. You can download ISO for operating system you.

Moving proxmox virtual machines between different servers became very easy with recent proxmox updates. You can use proxmox web GUI or command line interface to create a proxmox virtual machine backup and than move to a remove server. In this article we will see how to backup and transfer a proxmox vm to another proxmox node, both using GUI and command line.

  1. 12:25 Create ZFS dataset and ISO location. Now that the server is starting, let's install Proxmox, do some basic Proxmox setup stuff and create a ZFS.
  2. Browse to the location where you saved the Proxmox ISO file and click on OPEN, click on CHOOSE then click on START.

Step 1: Enable your disk to store backups

Normally your hardisk is enabled to be used for:

  • Disk Image
  • Iso Image
  • Container Template
  • Container


That means currently you can not store your virtual machine backup on your hardisk, so you need to make sure that your hard disk can store VZDump Backup File (file that is created after we initiate a virtual machine backup). Please follow the instruction in the image below:

  1. Click on Data Center
  2. Click on storage to list your server storage mediums.
  3. From list select the storage medium on which you need to store backups, we have only one so we selected it from the list.
  4. Once selected than click on Edit.
  5. You will than see that pop-up box that is currently displaced on the screen, from ‘Content’ drop down you can see that all other selections are highlighted blue, make sure VZDump Backup file is also highlighted in blue and click OK to save your changes.

Proxmox Change Iso Location

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Now your storage medium is ready to store backups.

Step 2: Create Backup

Their are two ways you can create backups, from GUI and command line as well, we will first discuss the command line version because its very easy.

Create backup from command line

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Login to your server ssh and run the following command:

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