Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

Discard

Disk images in Proxmox are sparse regardless of the image type, meaning the disk image grows slowly as more data gets stored in it. Over time, data gets created and deleted within the filesystem of the disk image. But in a sparse disk image, even after data is deleted, it never reclaims the free space. The VM may report the correct available storage space but Proxmox storage will show higher storage usage. The Discard option allows the node to reclaim the free space that does not have any data. This is equivalent to the TRIM option that was introduced in SSD drives. Before this option can be used, we have to ensure that the VM uses the VirtIO SCSI controller. We can set the SCSI Controller Type under virtual machine's Options tab: ...