Category: Homelab

A home-lab is a home-based server and tech setup used for running self-hosted services, testing software, managing networks, and exploring IT infrastructure hands-on.

How I Monitor SMART on Proxmox - OMV or TrueNAS

By Aditya Raj Singh 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

By Aditya Raj Singh 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

By Aditya Raj Singh 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 […]

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