Custom Disk Names on Proxmox

Custom disk names make it easier to identify disk purposes in multi-VM and multi-disk environments. To use custom disk names instead of the default vm-100-disk-0 format for your virtual machines on Proxmox, use this command from the Proxmox shell: pvesm alloc <storage-name> <vm-id> vm-<vm-id>-<disk-name> <disk-size>, where: <storage-name> is the storage device name where the disk will be created, for example, local-lvm <vm-id> is the virtual machine ID number, for example, 100 <disk-name> is the desired disk name, for example, customer_database <disk-size> is the disk size with units, for example, 100G Note: The disk name must follow the format vm-<vm-id>-<disk-name>, as Proxmox internally relies on this naming scheme. ...

November 19, 2025 · 1 min · 189 words · Maxim