OpenMediaVault 6 (OMV6) on Windows 11 with VirtualBox

[Music] hey there jeremy here in this video we're going to get an open media vault 6 server installed on virtualbox on windows let's get this started we're on our windows 11 box we're at the open media vault website openmediavault.org if you go to download and testing it'll start the download for the 6.0 beta version so we're going to cancel that i've already got that downloaded and so we'll jump back over to our other screen and we'll launch virtualbox we're going to create a new virtual machine omv6 and we'll accept the default machine folder type is going to be linux and the distro base is going to be w11 we'll say next and we're going to give this 8 gigs of ram just because the system has 32 so 8 is not really going to make a difference as far as overall performance on the windows side so hard disk this is going to be for the install disk that we will install open media vault on this will not contain data that we are storing and we're going to increase that up to 10 gigs and create now jump into settings system turn off the floppy drive we're going to add an additional processor core enable pae nx display we can skip storage we'll click the icon and we'll choose create a virtual optical disk click add and here in our downloads folder we can see our open media vault 6. we'll say open and choose come down to network we want to change that to bridged and everything else we can leave alone we'll say okay and we'll go ahead and start this and so we are going to take the first option which is install and we're going to accept mostly the defaults and this is moving at a nice clip one thing that i did not do that we'll do when we go back in to the settings is we're going to change this the storage drive to be on a solid states which should help performance even more but we will get to that in a moment and we're going to call this omv6blink [Music] dot local that's fine give it a root password take note that this will not be used in the web interface select your time zone we'll get the rest of our data copied to the disk and then we'll jump to the web interface this is as good a time as any to point out that open media vault 6 is still in beta this has not been fully released it is not considered stable as far as the developer is concerned so take that into consideration this is a great time to start playing with it and experimenting with it and learning the configuration however you probably don't want to use it as your main open media vault server quite yet select our archive mirror no proxy okay installation is complete make sure to remove the installation media if we jump to settings storage that is already showing is empty so we're good there we can continue and we'll check here make sure as well that's good and so this should restart momentarily so it did not pick up a an ip address on my local network so we're going to log in here and check out what the ip address is you use the credentials that you assign the password for during the installation procedure do ipspace a it will give you down here next to where under the second ethernet adapter it will show inet and then it will give you your network address so this is two two three so we will come down here to firefox and we'll jump over to the web interface and we've got open media vault 6. again this is beta so the default username is admin and the default password is open media vault all lower case no spaces and it is recommended that you change this after you have completed your basic configuration my only complaint here is that it does not have a select all check box which would be nice this is for the dashboard setup and as you can see the only service we currently have available is ssh it shows smb sifs is running but it is not enabled so just take a quick look system date and time is set for an ntp server so that's good we're going to come down to update management and updates and we will go ahead and run our updates as the very first thing we want to do here and again this should be fairly quick [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] okay so we have reached the end of our updates we can go ahead and close that and we need to log back into our dashboard okay let's log back into our web interface and the first thing we want to do is change the auto log out time period system workbench the auto log out is set to five minutes currently since we're going to be doing a lot of configuration we're going to set the time to one day so if you go 24 hours without any activity it will log you out but otherwise if you log in once a day you're good until the end of that day and halfway through the next day so we'll go ahead and apply that yes all right and so at this point we're going to shut down our system for just a few moments and we'll say yes and we'll end up back at virtualbox we minimize our browser we're going to come back into settings we're going to go to storage and on our boot drive we're going to set solid state drive and then we're going to add our storage drives and so i'm going to add a separate controller i'm going to make this a scuzzy controller and then we're going to add two hard drives two virtual hard drives we'll say create next next and we're going to call this on v we're going to call this store 1 and we're going to set this to 20. create we'll do create next next and we'll set this to store 2 and also set that to 20. great now we'll say choose and then we'll go to add and we'll select the second one and we'll say choose now we have our two storage drives we want to set both of those to be solid state as well and let's start our server back up let's jump back to firefox we'll log back in dashboard looks good we're going to come over to storage and disks maybe [Laughter] uh let's go to raid management and this my friends is why you don't necessarily want to run a beta version of openmediavault because sometimes things break we're going to log out again if all else fails switch browsers so i've jumped from firefox to chrome and so now we can go under storage disks and we can see that we've got our two 20 gig disks waiting to be used we go to raid management create and we're going to just make this a mirror select our devices and click save and the check mark say yes and that will build the raid mirror on the two 20 gig disks okay so now we've got our mirror created if we come down to file systems again we go to add or create and we're going to call this we're going to say the we will select the device give it a file system we're going to call it butter fs and save and that's going to create a file system and close come over to mount which it automatically took us to we select the file system and the usage threshold will leave at 85 and we'll say save and yes we want to mount the file system and click the check mark in the yellow and say yes okay so now we've got our mirror formatted with butter fs the storage capacity the amount used it is mounted but it is not referenced at this point and that's when we come over to shared folders we're going to create we're going to call this shared one select the file system which we've only got one on the system and we're going to leave this alone administrator read write users read write others read only so basically anybody that's got an account on the system on the open media vault system will be able to read or write to this shared folder anyway that does not currently it is set to let them see items and they can open the items but they will not be able to save the items or make any changes and we'll save that click the check mark and say yes okay so we've done our shared folder we've created shared1 it is showing as not referenced yet and this is where we need to go into services but before we start configuring services let's add ourselves a user so i'm going to add a user for myself great and for groups we want to be in the ssh group right there that will [Music] need to be saved and check mark and say yes okay so we've got our user set up under settings we want to enable home directories and it wants to know where we're going to put the home directories and we're going to put that on shared1 and say save so now we've got our home directory set up if we come down to services we're going to go easy to start off with smb sifs shares we're going to create a share that's enabled share folder it's just going to be shared we are going to make that browsable and i think that will do it for our settings for right now and so we come down to save click the check mark say yes so now we've got shared one which is going to be a public folder so let's come down to the file explorer in windows network and that's going to refresh itself and it didn't find it okay so we'll take one more quick look this is on 223 jump back to file explorer and we do double backslash and it's not liking that so what have we got here cancel let's jump back over to openmediavault smb sifs settings what did we do we didn't enable the service save check mark yes okay now let's take another look here to network and there we go open media vault 6 b link and it drops us in shared one and home folder and we can create a folder call that test one from win11 and so we have verified that we have connectivity from our windows 11 machine to the openmediavault 6 virtual machine

Channel: Practical IT with Jeremy Leik

Views: 531

Keywords: openmediavault, openmediavault 6, openmediavault 6 Beta, OMV, OMV6, OMV6 Beta, OMV 6, OMV 6 Beta, NAS, network attached storage, VirtualBox, SMB, CIFS, SMB/CIFS, File Sharing, Practical IT, Practical IT with Jeremy Leik, Jeremy Leik

Id: SyS7cic4FnA

Length: 22min 56sec (1376 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 12 2021