Open-Media-Vault (OMV) VM Running in Proxmox | Proxmox Home Server | Home Lab

[@TomFoley247]

Just followed this tutorial using OMV 6.5, and it's still perfect. Many thanks for making this video. 🙂

[@JohnMitchellCalif]

tons of practical, real-world advice. I installed turnkey-fileserver which works great but I'm curious about alternatives. Thanks! Subscribed.

[@Montagic]

You have become my default click for anything Proxmox; I'll even type MRP before videos just to check and I am always glad when you have a video on what I'm trying to do 😁 Ended up moving away from TrueNAS as a solution as I was using so many LXC containers, and bind mounting was just getting annoying. I also think I was dealing with some weird performance issues when streaming 4k content, although I'm not sure whether that was due to my ZFS setup or something else. My specs are great and LAN is on 1Gb so no idea what's going on there. Also got vGPU working, would love to see you do a video on that as it's a fascinating (and somewhat involved) process.

[@clangerbasher]

I thought about doing this a while back and thought it wouldn't work. Thanks for proving the idea is a flyer!

[@pakings]

Thanks for this MRP! I was looking exactly for this and you uploaded this right on time! 😊

[@badboo82]

thanks so muchfor this guide. For a newbie like me, no hickups to follow your guide and learning on the process.

[@Tortxu]

Thanks for your videos, they are really helpful and easy to understand. continue with proxmox videos!

[@IamKanuKingsley]

This is so beautiful. Using the uuid to add the drive. Wow! Just saved me tons of stress.

[@andhifarij]

Thank you for the guide! It's super thorough and helpful!

[@TheMrWenden]

Thank you very much MrP, as always to the point, it couldn't be better. Gracias

[@keifer39]

Great guide! got me through it on my first try.

[@TheLeftdead4]

Thank you. Awesome, works flawlessly

[@manelcat8365]

Thank you for your explanation, it has been very useful to me!

[@LukeKroeker]

This was super helpful, thank you!

[@josefzelisko6865]

Просто чудово. Дуже дякую.

[@a3-82]

u save my life sir big respect.

[@leandrocode]

Thanks a lot. You are the best!!! Easy steps

[@MichaelTran-c8d]

Hello! I just installed two new HDDs which are formatted in NTFS and am attempting to passthrough the physical drives to my proxmox host. One thing I am noting is that the drives are not recognized by the proxmox host despite being attached via SATA. Would you have any tips for me? Thank you and have a nice day!

[@kondzio2003]

Great guide, but I have a question - I want to pass entire ZFS pool from proxmox made from two discs as mirror to the OMV as storage drive and how can I do it?

[@MRPtech]

OMV will only accepts drives, it won't recognize ZFS pool as storage destination. If you will configure ZFS pool pass to OMV VM, OMV will see that just as a folder and not a drive.

[@kondzio2003]

​@@MRPtech So, how would you propose to implement my earlier idea, which is to have access to Nextcloud files through a Samba resource, and to have a second resource as regular samba storage? I have two 320GB disks configured in ZFS as a mirror, and two additional 2TB disks for storage, also configured in ZFS as a mirror. Now I know that OMV is not flexible when it comes to passing ZFS pools from Proxmox.

[@kondzio2003]

@@MRPtech Should I install the Nextcloud on LXC container as you showed in one of your tutorials, but how do I solve the issue of sharing both resources in Samba?

[@MRPtech]

Ok. so you have 2X zpool mirror. 1 - 320gb mirror 2 - 2tb mirror They way i would do this. Setup TurnKey File Server LXC container and pass both zfs data sets in to that. Once would be called tank (that is 2TB mirror) and another one data or something. Using File Server i would create samba share of both destinations. Setup Nextcloud lxc container and mount samba_share for nextcloud. i hope this makes sense :)

[@realmadera]

Thank you. I have 1 question. If proxmox is down will I be able to access the passthrough drives off a different OMV?

[@pisikicksass]

Hi @MRP, I did follow your guide (thanks!) and managed to set everything up without any issues. However, when I try to copy files over WiFi using Samba/Windows via mapped disk, I get a terrible average transfer rate at around 2-3 MB/s. Is there any way to fix it? I'm using a 2.5" 500GB HDD (5200) but when I connected an SSD to a USB 3.1 port the rate was the same. Perhaps there is a way to make it more efficient, but currently it was a fun project but it's unusable...

[@StrategicRemedy-j5o]

very helpful. thankyou verymuch

[@7EEaqmxg]

Thanks for the video. For me, when I used -sata1 as an option, the disk was showing up in the disk section of omv but with orange text, though. I could not get it to show up in omv. When I used -scsi1 it worked.

[@MidianNiles]

New to doing research on youtube channels. I'm sure it's just me, but for some reason, when the host indicates there's a link listed in the description below, I rarely find them....in this case, I'm not seeing where there's a link for the OMV ISO.... Sure, I'm able to use the link that I can see in the video, but the host says there's a link in the description area and I can't find it.

[@drzacks]

Thank you, very helpful.

[@phytrek]

Thanks for the video. I wonder if I can use the same sda device in different VMs at the same time. What I want is use it in a LXC to store data to and use it for OVM. If yes, is it enough when setting up OMV like you descirbed to add the UUID from the device that already is in use?

[@cp-xl7lo]

hello , thank ... how to shares disk zfs ( proxmox ) intro openmediavault..?????. sorry my english

[@andreasrichman5628]

With disk passthrough to OMV VM, will I be able to move the physical disk someday to another computer (bare metal Ubuntu) and access all the data? just in case something happen to the host.

[@MRPtech]

Without checking i would say yes, as long as you won't do any fancy stuff with that drive inside OMV that are OMV specific. I can pass USB drive to linux VM, upload/download files and then use the same USB stick on my Linux laptop with no issues. Regardless what i say ... always have backup of files that are VERY important to you.

[@sajadeshahidpour2008]

Thanks for all the advice provided ! I have a bit of a problem. I use Proxmox and I have an external USB Hard drive (NTFS filesystem). I want to use this USB Hard drive as an NFS or SMB shared folder created in OMV Virtual Machine, back to Proxmox ("Datacenter->Storage"). I was able to create the NFS and SMB shared folders in OMV. But when I want to add the storage at Proxmox Datacenter, I keep having a failure : "create storage failed" "Read-only file system at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Storage/Plugin". Could anyone help me understand and solve the problem ? Thanks !

[@MRPtech]

This sounds to me like permissions issues. folder you sharing provides only READ permission once mounted. Check permissions settings for that folder inside OMV setup.

[@sajadeshahidpour2008]

@@MRPtech Thank you so much for your quick response! This is exactly what i checked inside OMV, i ensured having read and write permissions enabled but the problem persists. I admit I don"t have much knowledge about how to proceed.

[@sajadeshahidpour2008]

@@MRPtech UPDATE : I don't why or how, but after 2 days of pulling my hair I was able to add the NFS folder as well as SMB in the Proxmox Datacenter. I think that the issue was an "unclean NTFS" partition which locked it into read only. I launched an "ntfsfix" to clean the partition, it seems to have cured the issue.

[@MRPtech]

Ohhh, Great! I got OMV setup done to test things for you and was about to ask for more details on your setup - turns out you got all sorted. amazing !

[@sajadeshahidpour2008]

@@MRPtech Thank you for helping me, looking forward to watching your next vids !

[@johnjohansson]

Great tutorial, but I was wondering if there is unnecessary overhead when creating ext4 filesystem inside a ZFS pool? Wouldn't it be better to use the ZFS pool just as is passing it through?

[@MRPtech]

For home lab environment that overhead is almost non-existent. If we will talk about AWS, Azure and other date centers - every overhead is a bad thing. For me - i haven't noticed at all any performances issues. Files getting copied from and to ext4 system and max speed of my local home network has, which is 1Gbps.

[@johnjohansson]

@@MRPtech Thank you for your answer :-)

[@Tandy8809]

Hello Thanks for the great step by step video. I do have a problem, I must have missed a step somewhere. Everything was going fine all the way through installing OMV. When I went to start it up it went straight back to the installer of OMV. So I thought I would remove the cdrom (iso) that was listed in the hardware section on my VM. Now when I try to start OMV I get a flash page from Proxmox and then it can't find a bootable device. My Proxmox still works fine with my other VM's. so it must be in the setting of the OMV VM. Thanks For Any Thoughts or Ideas,

[@MRPtech]

Check boot order inside Options list for that VM. Your HDD is not 1st on the list and not activated.

[@Tandy8809]

Thank You for your fast reply. After several failures (delete omv and setup again) I have it seemingly running OK. I think the issues were that I was trying to install omv on my data drive 😱 and I did not think about the vm having it's own sda,sdb, etc. I do have two question (if I have not worn out my welcome). When I add a user with full permissions, they have no dashboard when they log in. Also, I have my proxmox run a backup each night. OMV will not stop so the backup can be made and each vm restarted. Any Ideas? Again, thank you for a straight forward video and your help.

[@jsalinastls]

Awesome! so easy. Thanks! ;)

[@svborisov]

Great guide! Thank you! But why my OMV uses 92% of RAM? In PVE. In web interface of OMV shows 12%...

[@MRPtech]

Proxmox uses RAM to run VM/LXC. The more you assign to VM or LXC - the better they will perform. Proxmox showing 92% RAM usage for that VM as it is caching not only OMV core files but everything else that make that VM to run. In Linux - Free RAM = Wasted RAM. When proxmox showing that 92% of ram used that doesn't mean that other services can't use it. That RAM is shared across all VMs on that proxmox node. For example - You have proxmox node with 16GB ram. You can easily run 5 VMs and allocate 8GB ram in each VM. That does not mean that 5*8=40GB RAM just magically appeared, that means that each VM is allowed to use upto MAX 8GB RAM and all VMs will share resources across depending on work load. With my Proxmox cluster, all 3 nodes are constantly showing 80% usage of RAM : prnt.sc/fmZbcAZSa5St What you need to look for is CPU usage for VMs. When you see CPU maxed out for a while, something is not right with that VM.

[@svborisov]

@@MRPtech A!!! Now it is clear! Thanks for the simple and accessible explanation! My Nextcloud virtual machine, made from your video, also works great. True, sometimes, when I go deep into folders, it says that the server is unavailable and I have to reboot the machine. At first I thought it was due to lack of space on the system disk, but no. Increasing the size didn't help.

[@fahmi8999]

Can I using my local drive for the storage? without external drive?

[@MRPtech]

If you mean local drive as 2nd drive inside a box - Yes. You can use that drive inside OMV instead of USB

[@hohola422]

Greate Vedio! I do have a question, now i have 2 HDD in my Raspberrypi, can I just take it off and plug it in into the proxmox without format the HDD?

[@MRPtech]

Yes you can. You might end up with permission problem but it is unlikely. I moved couple drives from RPi Mini NAS to Proxmox with no issues. Obviously, in IT/HomeLab - Make sure you have backups!

[@hohola422]

@@MRPtech Thanks! Already migrated to proxmox!

[@jerzyj.8455]

perfect tutorial, thx

[@donciak]

sata better than scsi?? O.o

[@mwboyer]

Thanks MRP. Video was outstanding and I was able to access Samba folder on Windows 11 PC. Unfortunately, I lost the ZFS pool upon reboot of Proxmox. I received the following error messages when I tried to start TKFS from Proxmox console run_buffer: 322 Script exited with status 2 lxc_init: 844 Failed to run lxc.hook.pre-start for container "104" __lxc_start: 2027 Failed to initialize container "104" startup for container '104' failed Any thoughts?

[@mwboyer]

Sorry, I meant this for your Turnkey FS video

[@MRPtech]

Is their a way for you to share your LXC container config file content. Maybe send me via email: [e-mail] From that error it looks like that config file is not setup property.

[@dino9848]

I cannot thank you enough for just great information. I am however running into trouble when trying to add a 6th drive to OMV, after the qm set command, I get this error: Unkonwn option: sata6 400 unable to parse option qm set [OPTIONS] Does Proxmox not allow allocating more than 5 drives? Also, I was wondering since I have passed through several hard drives to OMV, how can I enable SMART monitoring. Every time I try to enable it within OMV, I get an error and have to revert the change.

[@MRPtech]

I am glad my video helped you out. And with that error. i could be wrong, but should the command be: qm set **** -sata6 ****** ? dash "-" at the start of sata?

[@dino9848]

@@MRPtech wow, thank you for the fast reply. I'm just hitting the arrow to bring up the prior command so all the syntax is the same. I'm changing only the uuid and the number after 'sata'. It's the same way I passed through sata2 through sata5 successfully. Once I try 'sata6' or higher, I get the error I mentioned above. All the drives have been setup with gpt as you showed and lsblk looked just like your example. I have nine 6tb drives I was trying to pass through to the OMV pve. I can only add 5 if them. It's better than nothing but wondering if perhaps there is some limitation with proxmox or OMV that isn't obvious.

[@dino9848]

@@MRPtech oh and if you know, because I searched on OMV and proxmox forums and haven't found anything on it, I cannot enable smart monitoring on those passed through drives.

[@dino9848]

@@MRPtech for anyone else, I found the answer in the qm manual (command: man qm). It appears the N options for -sata are 0 through 5, however if you use -scsi as the option, it can support n= 0 through 30. But I still can't figure out S.M.A.R.T. monitoring for those dives. I get a "500" error when trying to enable it.

[@MRPtech]

i didn't know that sata limits to 5. Thank you for sharing that!!

[@alialilou5262]

thx you are a legend

[@mikegodin23]

Great! Thanks.

[@fabiobianchi3104]

Muito bom! Obrigado.

[@MRPtech]

Obrigado

[@nekilik89]

Great

[@allans1212]

awesome but my SMB transfert are trasshhhhhhh 😢

[@REALTALKEUGENELANE]

thank you

[@logymoto]

My machine won‘t start.. I did everything like you..

[@MRPtech]

What error you getting when machines starts? And can you let me know your "hardware" tab setup.

[@Porto7222]

Thx bro

[@dogbreath7777]

Nice job! Like the little extra details...like if you add the domain to the computer name e.g. omv.local....it does not prompt for the domain. I am currently moving away from truenas scale....just to difficult to manage.....and requires large amounts of memory for zfs. I have a 5 node proxmox cluster with a backup server setup...really nice for the home lab. 😁 Running omv on one of the nodes. Would like to get some drive redundancy setup....considering RAID 5 with 3 or more drives...using the multiple device plugin.....then duplicating that on another system for backups....maybe using rsync....dunno yet. Next trick is to figure out how to backup and import jellyfin from the truenas server to omv....don't want to have to re-input the users manually. Bonus if I could figure out how to just transfer everything 😁