Installing Open Media Vault on Proxmox made EASY

[@wuwea]

Finally a video with someone actually adding drives, thanks!

[@Whats.New.Andrew]

Thanks @wuwea - I am glad you found it useful. Thanks for watching!

[@regg151]

I Started my home lab journey about a month ago with nothing more then a mini pc and an external usb 3.1 HDD enclosure. This is the first video I have found that breaks down how to do this, Much Thanks for taking the time to make this information available and simple enough that even a caveman can do it. Subbed and liked.

[@Whats.New.Andrew]

@regg151 Congrats on getting started with your homelab journey, and thanks so much for the kind words! Your first setup sounds very similar to mine where I used a spare desktop and a USB hard drive. I am so glad to hear that the video was easy to follow since one of my goals with this channel is to help anyone who is just getting started have a place for easy to follow guides. If you have questions on anything or a topic you would find helpful, let me know.

[@regg151]

@@Whats.New.Andrew Well I am having a bit of trouble figuring out how to get my Emby VM to connect to the OMV7 VM (both on the same proxmox node). would it be easier to just run emby from OMV? I was wanting to use the OMV VM as a NAS at least until I can by a real one. but I can't figure out how.

[@Whats.New.Andrew]

@regg151 To connect your Emby VM to OMV you will want to set up a NFS share on your OMV server. There you can define the folder you want to share, the IP of the Emby server you want to allow connections from, etc. Then on your Emby server you can edit your fstab file to automatically mount the shared OMV folder to your server. I did something similar in my Frigate video linked below, and in the video description I have a kink to my website with some of the fstab editing details explained. The alternative would be to run Emby on OMV, but I personally like having those two separate. Also, you will want to have static IPs for these machines if you don't already. Hope this helps, let me know if you still have questions! kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHzOapekdtVrfK8

[@regg151]

@@Whats.New.Andrew Thank You I've been stuck on this for the last few hours. I'll take a look at the video. again Thank You really appreciate the time you took to respond.

[@Whats.New.Andrew]

@regg151 I am happy to help! Good luck with the setup.

[@user-hl7lx8ds7t]

NICE REAL TALK

[@Whats.New.Andrew]

Thanks!

[@D35tr0]

Appreciate the video, keep at it mate, I can see this channel getting quite popular in future!

[@Whats.New.Andrew]

Thanks so much for the kind words and encouragement! I appreciate it.

[@yuso08yusoworld4]

Great video! Recently moved my proxmox home server to ugreen dxp6800 and looking for a solution for mixed drive sizes! Could you do a video on restoring a failed drive in a raid 5 or 6 scenario?

[@Whats.New.Andrew]

@yuso08yusoworld4 - I like that idea for a video. Right now I do not have anything configured in those RAID setups, so I will take a look at when I might be able to do something like this. Thanks so much for watching!

[@adifoto6362]

Good explanation. Thanks for the video.

[@Whats.New.Andrew]

Thanks so much for watching! I am glad you liked the video.

[@adifoto6362]

@@Whats.New.Andrew I used OMV in the past probably version 5 and had problem with docker not running properly. i moved to truenas. thinking now to move back to OMV.

[@Whats.New.Andrew]

@adifoto6362 I recently came back to OMV because I needed an easy-to-set-up rsync server for remote backups. It has been rock solid for me, and that setup was the inspiration for this video. I have been running a few containers on this version (version 7) and they perform great. It's definitely worth another look!

[@adifoto6362]

@@Whats.New.Andrew When i used it was quite good, and it started the problem with docker.

[@Whats.New.Andrew]

​@@adifoto6362Take a look at OMV Version 7 and see if it's better for you. I think it's come a long way, and I also use VMs and LXC on Proxmox for Docker, so I have a mix of fun! 😂

[@jimcolwell6429]

Hello love this but I’m having trouble passing through the drives to omv. After the qm command using uuid I check the omv machine in pro mix and the drives are in orange like there is an issue but I can’t figure out what went wrong Any advice on where to look? Tried wiping disks and starting over, I’m using disks connected through usb if that makes any difference

[@Whats.New.Andrew]

Hi @jimcolwell6429 - Sorry you are having issues. Take a look at the two videos I have below about passing drives in. Both go a bit more in detail, so maybe these can help you. This should work just fine for USB drives as I am using that for one of my OMV drives. I would be carful setting the USB drives up in RAID versus using an internal drive, but passing those into OMV should work fine. Let me know if these videos help or if you are still stuck with issues! kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqupkoSigbSNfKs kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZzGZp6aZ9pleKM

[@mansourq6512]

Thank you so much, Subscribed && Liked

[@Whats.New.Andrew]

Thank you very much for the subscribe and like! I am very glad you enjoyed the video.

[@user-hl7lx8ds7t]

Thank you

[@deivissergio2378]

Great tutorial, thanks... just one question: I am actually migrating my OMV system from Raspberry Pi to ProxMox VM. So I will use my old disks (18TB + 18TB), EXT4, etc (they are WD disks USB3.0), and I want to preserve the files, partition etc... (I did this migrating from RB Pi 3 to 4 and worked fine 1,5 years ago - but easy, the same kind of platform). Now the question: is the drives configuration part of the video also valid for "USB" Disks ? SATA / Mapping etc ? (Or should I add them as "USB Ports" into the ProxMox configuration ? (And then like the old migration, use the disks as USB disks) thanks 😊

[@Whats.New.Andrew]

Hi @deivissergio2378 - the drive configuration part of the video should work just fine for USB as well. They will show up the same way an internal drive would. When you connect them and go to storage on your proxmox node you will see them found as sdb/sdc or similar. The partitions will also show that already exist. In your case the EXT4 partitions. My only caveat is that if these are your only copy of the data be careful. I have had migrations like this work and also have them fail miserably and had to restore the data. Something to keep in mind so you do not lose everything. Good luck, and thanks for watching!

[@deivissergio2378]

@@Whats.New.Andrew Thanks Andrew, worked lime a charm !! I was able to map the USB drives as "SATA" drives, and the system recognized the old files structure, and everything worked fine. I also noticed that the file transfer between computers and NAS improved like 20% in speed (so I really had a limitation using my Raspberry Pi, perhaps also to manage the USB and data transfer was quite hard for the RPi). Once again thanks for the tips and great video !! 🙌

[@Whats.New.Andrew]

@deivissergio2378 - WOOHOO! That is awesome. So glad you got it all up and running with even better performance! Thanks again for watching.

[@megadooooom6582]

Great video but kindly educate my interest here my knowledge is limited and i want to know: 1-Why not BTRFS? 2-Can i just pass through my old drives without formatting them? or must i use an HBA for that as pass through? if even the HBA cann't be used in this scenario please tell me 3-Can i migrate my old NTFS or EXT4 HDDs to OMV through Proxmox? like windows you can move the HDD to every single PC and still have all of your data but this time through OMV since i don't have the money to buy new hardware this is the first step to renew 1 or 2 HDDs every 2 months and i want to move away from windows and NTFS thanks in advance and great work for this video

[@Whats.New.Andrew]

1. BTRFS does give some advanced features like snapshots, checksums, etc. It is also great to add new drives and easily expand your storage pool. Based on what you have in your question #3, BTRFS may be your better option to expand over time. I chose EXT4 in the video since it was a basic setup, but your plans probably lean towards BTRFS. 2 You should be able to use an HBA as I have done that with OMV previously. When you run the ‘lsblk’ and ‘blkid’ you will be able to see your HBA show there as well. However, for passing an old drive without formatting them I have had mixed success, so I would be cautious. 3 I have had mixed success with this in the past. I have been able to pass through existing HDDs without reformatting by passing in the information from the ‘blkid’ command, but other times it failed miserably. If it is your only copy of data I would be hesitant to do it. I would hate for you to lose data! Your approach to add or upgrade HDDs over time would lend itself well to using a BTRFS file system as you asked in question one. That is much more flexible at adding new drives of similar or larger sizes and expanding your storage pool easily within OMV. I hope I helped answer your questions, if not, let me know and I will try again! Thanks so much for watching

[@megadooooom6582]

@@Whats.New.Andrew you more than helped thank you so much good sir i will probably use OMV directly to be able to use my old drives without the need for pass through on proxmox untill i finishe my HDDs upgrade BUT alot of people warned me about BTRFS and recommended XFS your thoughts? for my use case i want 1-i want something reliable that in case of power loss i won't lose my data 2-easy to maintain 3-easy to recover in case of unexpected system failure sorry to disturb you again but i'm abit confused about filesystem choice since i always used windows your input is important to me thanks in advance

[@Whats.New.Andrew]

@megadooooom6582 When using OMV I view the file system choice as sort of a set-it-and-forget-it kind of thing. I know that is oversimplifying, but once you make a choice then you can use OMV to manage everything. I tend to use EXT4 for the simplicity and overall stability. There have been folks who have had issues with BTRFS in the past, so if you are hesitant, go with EXT4 and you will be happy. For your use case: 1. Both EXT4 and BTRFS are good with power loss. Also an inexpensive battery backup is a great investment to help mitigate power loss to the machines. 2. Maintenance is done within OMV, and there are lots of plugins to help if the out of the box options are not enough. Maybe set up OMV without even a HDD and just poke around and see what is available. You won’t be able to store anything, but you can get a feel for what is available with plugins, etc. 3. Recovery is done within OMV, but I also tend to subscribe to the 3-2-1 backup strategy for my most important items. (3 copies of your data, 2 backups, and one of those backups being offsite for disaster recovery). That is what this video was used for - I was building my offsite backup server in OMV and figured I would walk through the setup for others. Let me know if you have more questions! Happy to help.

[@megadooooom6582]

@@Whats.New.Andrew you are a lovely person thanks again

[@Whats.New.Andrew]

@megadooooom6582 you are very welcome! Message if you have more questions.