Greetings!
I am a newcomer to the OMV forums. I have been lurking and testing OMV for a period of several weeks now with great success. I evaluated FreeNAS, OpenIndiana, NAS4Free, OMV and piecing together my own solution. I began with a VMware instance on my laptop and quickly realized the systems potential. From there I repurposed a physical server into OMV as it seemed to be the most capable and simplest of them all.
Current configuration:
Intel Core i5 2500K 3.3 GHz
8GB RAM
1000Mbps wired network
3x 2TB HDs (retiring to another system)
ESXi 5 hypervisor for management
Services / Plugins:
BitTorrent
Rsync
SNMP
iTunes/DAAP (forked-daapd memory usage needs to be addressed, it hangs on text files causing massive CPU load time and memory draws)
NFS
SSH
TFTP
Website
FTP
SMB/CIFS
Apple Filing
DLNA
Local DNS / DHCP
OpenVPN
My testing is concluding and I plan to dedicate this system for the services above. But before I do, I am contemplating filesystems and resiliency. My current disks are using a mix of XFS and ext3 and the performance is quite good. Being a Linux user for many years I have typically used the ext filesystem and software RAID5 with success.
Today I purchased 3x 3TB Western Digital Red drives to put into this system and prior to deploying them into "production" I wanted to ping the more experienced NAS group for guidance. My original intention was to create a software RAID5 array and layer in LVM with ext4 or XFS, all through the OMV GUI. Obviously I rather do this once and "set it and forget it" and merely grow the array and LVM with additional Red 3TB drives as I require more space. I anticipate growth to at least 15+TB and want to architect the solution to withstand up to 2 physical drive failures and maintain the ability to easily grow the filesystem as drives are added.
I invite information, recommendations, guidance from the group as I sit anxious and ready to get this thing online.
Most of all, a big thanks to the developers, contributors, and support of this community. I am very impressed with the software capabilities, usability and quality compared to the commercial variants available. :applause:
Best,
/Dolent