OpenMediaVault Install on Proxmox as a virtual machine // Create and connect to NFS

hello everyone kevin stevenson here with giveawaythegeek.com and today we're going to be learning about open media vault yes normally i use freenas for network storage advice but today we're going to look at openmediavault and the reason why i'm doing that is because i am installing this on a proxmox as a virtual machine and it is one it's going to be a storage solution for that and zfs is the back end on our machines and generally speaking when you're talking about freenas it doesn't like to be virtualized so that's why i've chosen open medieval let's get started i'm kevin stevenson with phaselogix we're a managed it services provider if you'd like to hire us for projects go ahead and check us out at get me the geek.com if you find my videos valuable go ahead and subscribe and like if you like to support me directly go ahead and buy me a coffee alright here we go here we're logged into our proxmox machine this proxmox machine has a storage here and let's just take a look at that and it has 3.49 terabytes so what we're going to do is we're going to create a virtual machine and it's going to be open media vault one of the things you want to do is go to open media vault and download the iso that's easy enough click download here we go so just go ahead and get this iso and we'll download the lightest and greatest which is this 5.39 in this particular case you download it now i have actually already downloaded it and let me show you so over here we're going to go to local content and you will see that i have this 5.39 already uploaded to it now if you're wondering you just click this upload button on the storage select iso select the file it happens to be in your storage boom and then you can upload it it's that simple to upload a iso to your proxmox server so next thing we need to do is let's go ahead and create a virtual machine now openmediavault is going to want a small hard drive to install the operating system eight gigs is fine 16 gigs you know really anything eight gigs is about perfect so you're going to create a small eight gig drive and we're going to create another drive which is going to be our storage so let's go ahead and do that create vm and leave it this id we're going to call this mass and so here's where you're going to have the cd and you'll have a storage location where you upload and then you will see that iso right there and then we're going to select linux and the latest kernel versions and hit next now graphics cards default uh iscsi now i'm actually going to choose the default up here and we're going to uncheck this qmu agent we're not going to check that and then we're going to go here and we're going to choose right you can choose your storage if you have more storages they'll be here but in this particular case we just need eight gigabytes next now say i want a second hard drive well we're going to add that after the fact we just should let's go ahead and give it to two cores let's just go ahead and choose the host cpu memory um doesn't need a lot we're just gonna give it 40 96 which is four gigs of ram and if you have any troubles you can always choose this e1000 we're going to choose the prior virtualized io and hit next now you're only going to have one in here probably so and here it is confirmed now you can quickly create after start but i'm going to hit finished and now i'm going to go and it's going to create this machine down here and when it's done we're going to go ahead and add a another drive to it so you do that under hardware and you click add and you see all these drives things you can add now let's click hard drive and storage location that's going to be three terabytes and so there you have your two drives eight gig and three terabytes now we are ready to start this guy up now if you just want to look here with the options by the way you're gonna see that it's gonna start with the scuzzy drive and the cd-rom drive that's the boot order let's go ahead and start this guy up click on the console and there we have it the first thing there's install i'm going to go ahead and walk you through this operation i may speed up and during the part of this but it's generally a pretty fast operation english united states english okay in this particular case default is going to be open medieval but we're going to call it nas all right domain you can leave that as it is or you can change something else we're just going to leave it as is now you want to put a password in there and of course you'll have to repeat that password duplicate it i am in the central time zone and it's going to tell you that more than one storage device is detected which is what we expected because we have two drives and now you get to pick so in this particular case you're going to want to pick the 8.6 gigabyte one and we're gonna which is the default up there the first one in there and install the operating system on that one okay again we are going to choose united states you choose where uh is appropriate for yourself and you have all of these different uh locations that you can get your updates and everything i'm just going to use the default that's totally fine you can choose any one you want and then i don't have a proxy now it's connecting to the mirror and and checking wonderful now it's going to ask you to take out the boot media and go ahead and do that so let's go ahead and just take this operation here and the easiest way to do that is you can go over here to your hardware and click on this guy and click on edit and you can six select no media okay so now what we want to do is do a quick login just to see what the ip address is all right so as you can see it is going to be 238 so let's go ahead and minimize this guy open up a new tab and we're going to go to 192.168.1.238 and that should show us our open media vault open mediavault by default username is admin and open media vault is the password so open media vault so that will get us logged in for the very first time on this guy so now if we go over here to disks you're going to see that there are two drives our initial drive and our three terabyte drive that we set up a couple of things to look forward to is going into the settings and you may want to change the auto logout in this particular case i'm going to change it to 30 minutes because i don't want to log out in the middle of our sessions now you can also go here and change your admin password okay so save that that's all been saved now you're gonna get this apply now this this one in particular seems to take a little bit of time to apply it so we'll wait just a second and get moving all right so let's move on to the next task let's take this guy and create a file system select device three terabytes label it following data and we're gonna choose ext4 but you have these other options so let's do that yes oh my goodness there it's going to take just a few minutes to do this operation so let's just wait all right that's complete now we can go over here to shares i'm going to call it nfs in this particular case i'm going to do a nfs share as a backup storage location for the primary proxmox in this location so we'll choose nfs actually let's just change this to backup backup and um oh boy let's hit cancel real quick all right let's try this we'll call it nfs back up and we're gonna have a device show up here and i don't know why okay something's going on here i forgot to mount it let's go ahead and mount that guy and apply because our new data our new data drive needed to be mounted by the links operating system in order for me to create the shares default i know that's pretty obvious but sometimes you forget the little things okay now let's go back to share folders hit add and call it nfs backup now our new drive is going to show up and we are going to in this particular case go ahead and do everybody read write for purposes of this you probably would want to tighten down the security or for purposes of production or whatever but in this particular case we're going to just show you how to do this so that's that and now you can go to nfs and you can go to shares add and we're going to go ahead and select a folder which you can do right here and now here's where nfs you know you you can restrict it to the particular host so what we're going to do is just go ahead and restrict it onto their network oops zero slash 24. so that that is going to be this entire network we're going to go ahead and make that read write and hit save of course you gotta apply these things now remember we call that nfs backwards backup now we're gonna also go and we're gonna turn on nfs now as soon as this gets done apply enable and save so now we have an nfs share on this guy it's three terabytes of storage that we should be able to mount on our proxmox servers so we have this proxmox which it houses the nfs the mass storage we just created and then we have this guy which is another one and what we're going to do is this guy is going to we're going to attach that in a best share to this guy in order to be able to back up this vm to the other machine what this does for us is if this machine goes down the backups are on the other machine and i can take that back up and restore it to that secondary machine as a proxmox vm directly while the other machine gets repaired so it's one of the ways we do to protect data let's go ahead and take a look at that now let's see this is all good so let's go ahead and we're going to go over to our primary proxmox machine and click on data center and click on storage and then we're going to add nfs so now the id is whatever you want to call it so we're going to call it nfs backup the server is going to be the open media vault ip and that was 238 so 192.168.1.238. now once you do that it's going to go out there and query it and this should show up as an export and there it is export nfs backup and now you choose what you want to be able to put on this nfs storage we're going to choose desk image iso containers of easy dumps backup which is the main thing we want here containers all right and we're going to go ahead and make it three backups uh let's just do two because this is not a huge storage and i think this this actual vm is like 1.2 uh terabyte or terabytes so as a three little over three terabyte drive so if we do two it'll still have enough storage so click add all righty then so now you see this nfs backup over here so if i click on that guy you'll see a summary that says it's basically three terabytes and you can go to the content and there'll be nothing in there but you can't upload stuff like if you wanted to upload an iso or something like that and you can do that and here's the beauty i can go over here to the proxmox machine data center and go to backups i can click on the saturday backup here and i can edit it and change it from local storage to this nfs backup and so all these things should be the same you hit okay and so now the backups are set up to go here so any any of these backups will just back up there and and there you go over media vault and how to use it to back up your free nas or back up your proxmox or your virtual machines in a proxmox environment and uh so if you're looking for a nas operating system that you can virtualize open media vault is a good choice of course you can use any linux distro to create a nas or nfs store or cifs store but if you're looking for a quick easy web management open media vault is a good one open media vault is i'm going to say it's not as powerful as freenas truenas um but it is definitely a good alternative thanks for joining me i'm kevin stevenson with getmegeek.com

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Id: XLFXdj7CFAQ

Length: 19min 0sec (1140 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 13 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/notorious1212]

Shit. From the thumbnail, I thought it was billy Mays selling proxmox subscriptions.

[u/levix4991]

Well that's too funny. I use to do this myself. But, moved my NAS to it's own system now. Just my preference. I like my NAS not going down anytime my proxmox server did.

[u/JoeB-]

I’m in the process now of migrating my stand-alone OMV to a Proxmox VM, except I’ll be passing through an HBA.

[u/[deleted]]

"because freenas doesn't like to be virtualized"... Sort of true, but we all know here that it's possible and works well if you passthrough the disk controller.

[u/la8pc]

Yes, except that omv is always one year offsync to debian release. It sucks to run oldstable.

[u/MarxN]

It's good because you can't automate management of omv via ansible. So no easy way to reinstall getting scratch automatically, you need to recover from backup, and Proxmox gives your backup ootb

[u/bformesyn]

FWIW, I found OMV performance even with SSD backed storage poor under Proxmox - not able to saturate a 1GbE link and throughout of only 800—900Mbps on a 10GbE link.

That was a deal breaker for me as OMV was going to be used as a backup server, but for ad-hoc use of small files probably would be acceptable.

So, YMMV - worth testing and confirming before going all-in.

[u/Miles_McQuiston]

This recommendation should be highly dependent on the features someone intends to use. The more high performance features you intend to use the greater the need for OMV or any NAS distro to be installed on bare metal.

[u/w00ddie]

VM to VM speeds are maxed by your physical nic card. I have not found a way to manipulate faster internal speeds.

Anyone else?