Tag: OpenMediaVault

OpenMediaVault is a free Linux distribution designed for network-attached storage.

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 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 […]

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

By Aditya Raj Singh 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 […]