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How I Monitor SMART on Proxmox - OMV or TrueNAS

Written on May 29, 2025

I run OpenMediaVault inside a Proxmox VM. It works great for a home NAS, but there was one big issue: S.M.A.R.T. monitoring didn’t work. Here’s what I found and how I fixed it without messing around with SATA controller passthrough. Why SMART Doesn’t Work in OMV (in Proxmox) If you're passing disks to your OMV […]

How to Install Scrunity on Proxmox

Written on May 28, 2025

Scrutiny (S.M.A.R.T Monitoring) runs on Docker Compose. You can install Docker and Compose manually or use Dockge LXC (recommended). Install Scrutiny Paste the following into docker-compose.yml, change the TZ to your local timezone. Save the compose file. Start Scrutiny Scrutiny will be available on port 8080. Collector Script on Proxmox Node Head over to Proxmox […]

How to Mount Disks to OpenMediaVault in Proxmox

Written on May 26, 2025

Once you’ve created your OMV virtual machine in Proxmox, the next step is to pass your physical hard drives (HDDs) through to the VM so OMV can use them for storage. If you're still deciding whether to handle RAID in OMV or at the Proxmox level using ZFS, I covered the pros and cons in […]

OpenMediaVault or Proxmox ZFS – Where Should You Set Up RAID?

Written on May 26, 2025

I recently went down a little rabbit hole while setting up my homelab, and I thought I’d share what I learned, hopefully, it helps someone else avoid the back-and-forth I went through. So here’s what I was working with: Now the big question was: Should I set up RAID 1 inside OMV, or use a […]

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