OpenMediaVault 7 (OMV7) Setup Made Easy: Step-by-Step Guide! - Episode 1

[@Reeces_Pieces]

Glad to see you're still doing new OMV videos. Much appreciated!

[@DBTechYT]

More to come!

[@veredictum4503]

Whoa! This is so much better for newbie (me) - step by step, screen by screen. Much needed and appreciated. I did think of buying ready-made. Money was less the problem, my main stopper was reading how with proprietary gear, you can't swap components in & out. Whereas I have lots of components from various PCs, and so re-use was important to me.

[@NassibIbrahim]

waiting for episode 2. thank you, for your effort to make this one.

[@NightHawkATL]

Always good to see OMV improvements that make a good QOL (Quality of Life) improvement. That dashboard issue used to drive me bonkers on a cleared cache or a new browser or a different machine!

[@TheFloRidah]

🤣 The funniest thing watching your video. It's 11 PM, quiet neighborhood, everyone sleeping, then at 3:46 mark I coincidently was taking a sip of coffee and jumped with the sudden noise, spilled coffee on my shirt in the process, took my headphones off and went looking for the noise. Still puzzled, came back to continue watching then at 7:55 mark you apologized about the noise in the background. 🤣🤣🤣 Great audio setup!!! Love your videos and looking forward to the next one. No headphones 🤣🤣🤣

[@DBTechYT]

Literally laughing out loud at this comment. Thanks so much!

[@TheFloRidah]

@@DBTechYT Though you would get a kick out of it! 😂

[@gp37521]

Great video! I will be binge watching this series now and quite possibly some of your other videos.

[@weholmes5315]

Just want to express how much I appreciate all you do! Your videos are so helpful. 🙏❤️

[@DBTechYT]

Wow, thank you!

[@Practical-IT]

Great into to OMV 7. I have been running it for a good while now and it's been rock solid. NAS install and config is a GREAT first home lab project for people just getting started. It was one of my first projects back in the FreeNAS 0.x days.

[@twelveacorns5486]

Wow! I just installed OMV7 on a Pi4 in an Argon EON case w/2 4tb HDDs yesterday, and was wondering what it could do. A very timely video (series). Thanks DB!

[@fredzibulski3111]

This works then with pi4 ? Do I have to do it with the iso or can it be like before also installed with the script like it was with omv6 ?

[@ali66hf]

Great video as always! Waiting for episode 2.

[@michaelsims7728]

Thank you for all your hard work! Great video as always!

[@ScottGrammer]

I'm about to dive into OMV for the first time. Your videos should help. Thanks!

[@vibaek78]

You have been my go-to guide since I embarked on my OMV journey. I hopped onto the OMV6 train and have recently switched to the new OMV7. It operates quite smoothly on my i5-1135G7. Today, I discovered that I could enable hardware acceleration on my Plex server, as my processor supports Intel Quick Sync. It wasn't a straightforward process-nothing ever is. But after installing the driver, adding the devices to my Plex stack, and enabling TigerLake in the Plex settings, I was thrilled to see a small yet gratifying 'hw' next to the video quality on up-/downscaled videos.

[@DBTechYT]

Hell yeah!! That's awesome!! Thanks for sharing :)

[@raymondcarr2615]

Well done. I liked the speed of the video, the intro, and the content of course. You have this down to a fine art. I'm still using OMV (7) on a Pi4/SSD combo for the odd thing/test bed/NAS so was interested in this.

[@TechDunk]

Awesome video! Got me started up in under 30 minutes!

[@maniyaa_]

Just wanted to say thank you for these videos! got my home server working thanks to you.

[@DBTechYT]

Great to hear!

[@matthewlupica3724]

I actually went through this process myself a few months ago, your older OMV content was still valuable. Looking forward to the rest of this series. Interested to know if anyone else runs into dhcp issues during install.

[@jayv_tech]

Actually your OMV 4 videos were the reason I also got into self-hosting. Followed lots of your videos and I too preferred OMV 5. And, as said, OMV 6 wasn't good. I actually had to move to plain old Ubuntu Server and haven't looked back since. But, this v7 looks good. Will probably check this out. And, happy to see that you are back on track!

[@BilalHeuser1]

I'm glad I found this tutorial, because I am putting together a home file/media server, and what ever I else nee. My device will use a Jonsbo N2 case and TopTon 6005 system-board. Will be await anxiously for future episodes.

[@DBTechYT]

new videos coming soon!!

[@dktol56]

My Chinesium NAS mobo is the CWWK N5105 (also resold as Topton) with 32GB of RAM, so slightly slower than your N6005. I've thoroughly tested it with Debian 12 and up to 8 SATA spinning rust drives and various SSD's, and it appears stable for a NAS OS like OMV or TrueNAS Scale (or Proxmox). Looking for a case, and a Jonsbo N2 would be a good choice, but the price remains stubbornly high at around $150, and I have to buy and SFX PSU. The available NAS PC cases are limited and even more expensive.

[@rudzik112]

I'm new in omv, waiting for more. Thanks!

[@dktol56]

Chinese mini-pc's (most are) and custom NAS motherboards use a modified reference AMI BIOS - try F7 to bring up the one-time UEFI boot menu. That often works. Also, I use ventoy for the USB installation. Just copy the iso files to it. So much easier than a drawer full of USB installation drives.

[@yourpcmd]

Thank you for another great informative video. And yeah, I enjoy the intros too so put them in there if you wish.

[@ierosgr]

Hi At 8:06, since which version of proxmox, scsi controller defaulted to virtio scsi single instead of virtio scsi. Single option gives you the ability to enable io thread option but it stresses your host more. Also, doesn't installation gives the option to create a raid including more than one boot disks and where is the part where you can configure static your network parameters?

[@paulogodinho3275]

Just what I was looking for, I went with TrueNAS because I struggled with OMV NFS setup, hopefully you can make it dead simple so I don't need this behemoth just to do NFS sharing.

[@frankyvee1]

Will you be showing how to migrate existing data shares from 6 to 7 as well?

[@DBTechYT]

I won't be doing anything regarding OMV6 as I don't have it setup. I hated it so much that I quit using OMV entirely

[@frankyvee1]

​@@DBTechYT Thnx..thats unfortunate.

[@ep7ta]

very nice to follow but how can I reset all, sharefiles, disks etc and start it from start?

[@try-that]

Been using since 5. I think 7 is the best version so far. I think you will find the docker changes weird at first, but I don't even have portainer added. The compose plugin does everything you need and more, I especially like the global env settings, you can also setup backups, it's a lot different to the last time you did a video on it. There's also a kvm plugin and recently a k3s plugin. For me as I use JBOD and prefer docker compose I was very disappointed with Scale, it will be interesting to see how it develops and hopefully less breaking upgrades.

[@martinmeyer6341]

OMV has developed really well! I remember it to be pretty buggy and slow especially when it came to file transfers.

[@DBTechYT]

Really glad to hear that you're having a better experience with OMV7! :)

[@martinmeyer6341]

@@DBTechYT to be honest I only looked at the omv7 dashboard in your video and compared it to the one of omv4 ^^ So is it still that buggy...?

[@DBTechYT]

@@martinmeyer6341 I think it's on par with OMV 5 if not better. I'm still digging into 7, but I'm liking it a LOT especially compared to 6

[@Silverstar1995]

A very good, comprehensive start to the guide. Though the audio during the Basic VM Setup might need to be massaged, it sounds like something is beeping in the background and causing a lot of noise through that section of the video.

[@DBTechYT]

It was 85 degrees in my studio and I had the door into the back yard open to make it bearable while i recorded. There was something going on at the facility behind me. I literally talked about this in the video.

[@mikekane9734]

I really care a lot for the intros you make! That's one of the most important things that separate you from the rest. I may not really know what product you are going to talk about. But your intros allow us to know whether it is something I would be interested in, or get back to this later. :)

[@DBTechYT]

Thank you so much for your comment! I really appreciate you!! My intention with the intros is basically what you said. I want to give my thoughts on the project before I get into the project itself so people can know what they're getting into. But I get a lot of comments like "You talk too much" and that sort of thing. Obviously it hasn't changed how much I talk, but now people can't complain about it as much lol

[@mikekane9734]

@@DBTechYT Thank you for noticing my comment! Now you know, that the intended purpose was not wasted. :D I'm sure lots of the others appreciate your intros too.

[@chatfi3ld]

That meme of USB never going in first time never gets old :)

[@DBTechYT]

Lol wasn't even on purpose. Just happens every time! 🤣

[@joeylo2365]

Did anyone have same experience like mine, once I installed OMV7 in my J1900 machine and ehen I reboot the machine, it will have a error message " watchdog didn't stop" and the machine just freeze there until a hard reboot by pressing the phyiscal button. How can I get rif of this watchdog thing and proper to reboot the machine. Thx

[@ctbfalcon]

PLease make sure you talk about docker setup and portainer setup.

[@thomasthomas1360]

Hi @DB Tech, can you make a video on how to set up NFS share in open media vault. Right now I am using FTP to upload files to NAS. I looked through the forums but am confused as to how to proceed with it

[@androsk]

hey man, hope your health have improved, do you recommend upgrade from omv6 to 7, currently have my plex server and web hosting, i don't want to reconfigure everything again

[@DBTechYT]

I probably wouldn't update if things are working. Updates often give me a bunch of anxiety that I don't want to deal with unless I have to

[@androsk]

@@DBTechYT yeah, exactly that's how i feel !, thanks sir

[@whyomgwhywtf]

so much help. thank you!

[@DBTechYT]

I'm glad it helped!

[@huseyinakcit1165]

Thanks, waiting for Episode 2

[@Ello_o.]

Woo! Just what I've been looking for! I'll be following along. Got a question, I setup Radarr but the root folder doesn't look like it has permissions, do you have an old video where you've set this up? Root Folders Path Free Space Unmapped Folders Unable to add root folder Folder '/movies/' is not writable by user 'abc'

[@inlandchris1]

Question: suppose I have 4 hard drives at 10TB’s (each) for data. How many do I need (10TB) for parity under mergerfs? And if I double the data drives?

[@DBTechYT]

ChatGPT, my dude: When using mergerfs for pooling hard drives, it operates differently from RAID systems where parity is a concern. Mergerfs itself does not provide redundancy or parity; it simply combines multiple drives into a single virtual drive. So, if you’re using mergerfs alone, you don’t need to allocate any drives specifically for parity-there’s no built-in mechanism for it. However, if you’re looking for redundancy and parity, you would typically use a RAID setup or a similar solution like ZFS or btrfs, which can handle data protection and parity calculations. For example: 1. RAID 5: Requires one drive's worth of space for parity. With 4 data drives of 10TB each, you’d need 1 additional 10TB drive for parity, leaving you with a total of 30TB usable storage. 2. RAID 6: Requires two drives' worth of space for parity. With 4 data drives of 10TB each, you’d need 2 additional 10TB drives for parity, leaving you with a total of 20TB usable storage. If you double the number of data drives: 1. RAID 5: With 8 data drives of 10TB each, you’d still need 1 additional 10TB drive for parity, leaving you with 70TB usable storage. 2. RAID 6: With 8 data drives of 10TB each, you’d need 2 additional 10TB drives for parity, leaving you with 60TB usable storage. So, if redundancy is your goal, you should choose a RAID setup or another redundancy-focused filesystem rather than relying solely on mergerfs.

[@inlandchris1]

@@DBTechYT that is a nice complete answer! My mistake about mergerfs, no protection. The snap raid is the way to go and I like Raid 6. Thank you for the kind attention

[@nlrz313]

I would like to know what happens if we had OMV6 and it reaches the end of its life, what happens? I can stay in OMV6 indefinitely with security updates, can we migrate from 6 to 7? or I have to start all over again at the risk of losing all my data in the process? I'm wondering this because I currently have a qnap NAS, but I would like when it reaches the end of its life, to switch to a system that I have set up myself.

[@DBTechYT]

Look through the comments. This has been addressed multiple times :)

[@nlrz313]

@@DBTechYT Ok thanks.

[@Edsel76]

how do you upgrade from OMV 6 to 7 or do I have to do a clean installation

[@DBTechYT]

thanks for the comment. I've answered the question about upgrading from 6 to 7 a few times already on this video. I don't have 6 installed because of how much I hated it. Also, I don't want to deal with the comments that will 100% happen like, "YOU RUINED MY SERVER BECAUSE OF THIS VIDEO". I've received a LOT of comments from people who can't follow instructions or who think that THEY don't need to run backups of their stuff before taking on a task like that. There are forum posts available out there that have instructions for those who want to do the upgrade.

[@brianmorgan7207]

First, thanks for these great instructions. Second, will you cover the upgrade from ver. 6 to ver. 7?

[@DBTechYT]

thanks for the comment. I've answered the question about upgrading from 6 to 7 a few times already on this video. I don't have 6 installed because of how much I hated it. Also, I don't want to deal with the comments that will 100% happen like, "YOU RUINED MY SERVER BECAUSE OF THIS VIDEO". I've received a LOT of comments from people who can't follow instructions or who think that THEY don't need to run backups of their stuff before taking on a task like that. There are forum posts available out there that have instructions for those who want to do the upgrade.

[@stemmerman]

Can't wait to see if you do a new video on Docker and Portainer install on RPI if that is in the works. Just bought the chair and used your code. Hi from Denver.

[@DBTechYT]

I'm having mixed feelings about doing raspberry pi videos these days as the company has apparently done something to upset people and I get a lot of mixed comments when I bring up the idea of more pi content. Also, I'm in The Springs! Yay Colorado!

[@edwardnizza9620]

I happen to still have OMV on my pi. I just updated to 6 and I haven't updated to 7 as of yet. So far it was as simple as updating from the os. Still have portainer and all my containers.

[@zachhadden4273]

I'm wondering how omv7 works on a raspberry pi 4

[@MKBUHDD]

Please continue the series with Nextcloud and Nginx to access server from internet!

[@emosasukefan01234]

ahh just episode 1 is available :( i actually wanted to see more

[@DBTechYT]

Yeah. I wanted to get more than 1 video out at once, but there's so much going on behind the scenes that even this video took WAY longer than it should have to get out.

[@JadenHybrid]

You will need a video on how to upgrade from the current 6 at some point.

[@DBTechYT]

As I said to someone 13 minutes ago: I'd start here: forum.openmediavault.org/index.php?thread/50649-successful-migration-from-omv-6-to-omv7/

[@WildAwesome]

Hi David, loved the video and looking forward to the second one. I do have one question. I run both a Raspberry Pi using Raspbian a NAS and TrueNAS Scale. What's interesting is that the Pi doesn't constantly spin the hdds. Truenas has them constantly going. Can you tell me if OMV is going to be like the Pi or Truenas? Many thanks.

[@DBTechYT]

Thanks for the comment. Unfortunately, because I'm virtualizing this, I likely won't get "real" results with something like what you're asking, so I'm not 100% sure.

[@ahmedel-akkad6587]

How can I upgrade from 6 to 7?

[@DBTechYT]

I'd start here: forum.openmediavault.org/index.php?thread/50649-successful-migration-from-omv-6-to-omv7/

[@ahmedel-akkad6587]

@@DBTechYT thanks, hope you're health is better now!

[@Jan_Alexander]

@@DBTechYT Hi, does the upgrade affect Docker? I've kept Docker frozen for about 2+ months now, since it appeared that Portainer has issues with Docker 26 and won't be fixed anytime soon. If I upgrade OMV6 to OMV7, will also Docker be upgraded to 26, thus breaking Portainer?

[@OfficialMikeJ]

Rufus is more suitable for Linux ISO files then Belena Etcher from what i have read online it can cause issues with Linux bootable USB drives.

[@grzesiop58]

great job!

[@trexgamer73]

Nice!

[@goodcitizen4587]

Interesting. Thanks!

[@marekmiklovic9514]

I have encoutered a strange issue - after the installation, I have accessed the OMV via web browser and I had 0 widgets, nothing to setup. So I have reinstalled it using USA debian mirrors, then Germany... then, finally "Czech server fixed it" (I am from Slovakia). Btw I am new to Linux and THX for the video :)

[@DBTechYT]

glad you got it sorted!!

[@ronm6585]

Thank you sir.

[@DBTechYT]

Welcome!

[@kaede15]

AT LAST they put the config file on the pi instead on the Browser... Mine start everytime in Chinese, don't know why...

[@DBTechYT]

That's strange. Never had the language change on me before

[@thanoswasright626]

Well this is werid I was just thinking I need to build my home server but wasn't sure if I should use OMV7 or Promox.... And then this video came up on my feed 🤔🤔

[@Depa3]

I cant join to webpage

[@antoniomax3163]

I like u, ty

[@williamtopping]

That magnetic headrest seems like a nightmare. I imagine it moving around if you put any kind of pressure on it. Same way you could easily move it with your hand.

[@DBTechYT]

100% incorrect. I use it all the time and it only moves when I want it to. I know they sponsored the video, but it's actually really great and, again, only moves when I deliberately move it.