I use OMV on my Pi4 with an 8TB HDD formatted as ZFS.
OMV is really just a nice GUI accessed over a webpage to manage your NAS.
There's nothing really it can do that you can't do from a terminal, but it does present everything nicely for you.
I use OMV in order to additionally host docker containers for a reverse-proxy, Nextcloud and Gitlab.
I do get fed up with having to confirm everything twice in OMV when you change settings and it occasionally brings up some red banner error messages when things go wrong that I don't really know how to fix. The only other annoying feature I found hard to understand at first was their concept of "Shared folders". These are just indicating which folders have the "potential" to be shared. They then have to be really shared over a service such as SMB or NFS etc. But none of these issues are enough to stop me using OMV.
If you're happy with the cmdline and have simple needs, then OMV could be considered overkill. But if you like nice GUI interfaces that can be accessed over the network in your web browser then it's quite nice. For the underlying OS I would use Raspberry Pi OS lite in either case.
OMV is really just a nice GUI accessed over a webpage to manage your NAS.
There's nothing really it can do that you can't do from a terminal, but it does present everything nicely for you.
I use OMV in order to additionally host docker containers for a reverse-proxy, Nextcloud and Gitlab.
I do get fed up with having to confirm everything twice in OMV when you change settings and it occasionally brings up some red banner error messages when things go wrong that I don't really know how to fix. The only other annoying feature I found hard to understand at first was their concept of "Shared folders". These are just indicating which folders have the "potential" to be shared. They then have to be really shared over a service such as SMB or NFS etc. But none of these issues are enough to stop me using OMV.
If you're happy with the cmdline and have simple needs, then OMV could be considered overkill. But if you like nice GUI interfaces that can be accessed over the network in your web browser then it's quite nice. For the underlying OS I would use Raspberry Pi OS lite in either case.
Statistics: Posted by procount — Fri Aug 02, 2024 5:58 pm