New Install of OMV

Hello

Firstly, can I just say how impressed I am with this project, I love the extensive features of OMV and the performance of OMV against FreeNAS' ZFS on my Microserver N40L within ESXi 5.0 is incredible.

Before I install officially and share the documents across multiple users however, I'd like to say I am the classic newbie with OMV specifically, and would like some advice in order to get my OMV installation working 100% to its ability.

If you wouldn't mind I do have a couple of questions which should set me on the right path to installation, however any pre-advice or guidance in addition to the below would also be greatly appreciated.

Thanks guys

Q's:
EXT4 or XFS?
I am giving the VM running 4GB of RAM and the CPU on the N40L is only 1.5GHz Dual Core, however I only want to use my NAS for basic Samba sharing across my 2012 AD Domain users (under 3), and FTP backups from my web servers. I like the additional features and tend to want to make use of the plugins such as CLAM and others. I also like the Quota feature for the sake of it! Which file system would best fit my needs? When I set up FreeNAS, feature-rich was my road-path however after experiencing the daily limitations in performance of FreeNAS ZFS, my main requirement is performance now (especially when viewing 1020p Movies across my LAN without any buffering).

Active Directory
I've followed this tutorial and managed to successfuly set up AD authentication with Samba shares etc. in my test environment, however what are your general thoughts on doing this directly bypassing OMV for configuration? If this ever becomes a core feature of OMV, will this cause me problems down the line? Also, is there anything obvious I need to watch out for with authenticating OMV with AD?

RDM
With FreeNAS, my storage drives in ESXi 5.0 were VM'd , I'm considering doing RAW device mapping when setting up OMV storage this time, this should increase performance - agree?

Performance
What should be my expected throughput over my Gigabit LAN between my server and desktop PC over Samba? Is 40MB/s too much to ask for at least?

Thanks again guys - I'm sure any advice at all would be gratefully appreciated.

Hi ryecoaaron

Thanks a lot for the reply! Loving the sound of Samba 4's own AD server? How will that work in regards to features and management? Will it just provide logons? Or profiles, GPO and ACL's?

Would love to ditch 2012, and have a FOG server instead of WDS, and a LAMP instead of IIS! Don't want to max out my N40L with too many intensive VM's though really (and unfortunately working on a budget!)

Is there any more info on this AD server?

Thanks again.

Great stuff! Do we have a release date?

Thanks again

Cool - yeah definitely, I would love if dethegeek could contribute here on AD! If only you could tag members :)........... dethegeek

Hi guys

I've jumped on to the install this evening, and set up my Raw Device Mappings, however I've been formatting and setting up my RAID for the past 2 hours now, and they are still syncing/initialising.

Is there any way I can check on the initialization progress and is there a reason the syncing of the RAID is so slow?

Thanks in advance

Thanks. I think so too! The CPU is at 100% on the n40L while doing this and ive given the VM 4Gb of RAM.

Thanks for the help ryecoaaron, once the initialization completed it also sync'ed up quickly afterwards.

I'm only getting about 20mb/s over FTP copying to OMV on ESXi, and about 13 MB/s over SMB! Do you have any ideas what could be causing this?

I have a Gigabit LAN and can copy to another Windows Server VM on the same box at 50MB/s!

Thanks in advance for any guidance

Will do tekkbebe, I'm still copying my TB's of data over on to OMV so I'll do this after it completes.

Thanks so far for all your help guys, loving OMV.

True, I was getting a similar speed with FreeNAS (a little better though), and that was justified due to the ZFS filesystem which works rubbish in a 4GB VM on the N40L! My backed up data was on a 6 month old 1.5TB HDD that yesterday morning it started suffering SMART errors so I had to get all my data off it ASAP!

I will let you know the results of the command when it's finished copying my data

Hi guys

Sorry for the late reply, my Windows server VM transfers SMB data at 50mb/s and that's on the same ESXi install as OMV so I'm not sure if this is a networking issue, but results below:

# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
        Supported ports: [ TP ]
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Full
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Full
        Advertised pause frame use: No
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Speed: 1000Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: Twisted Pair
        PHYAD: 0
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: on
        MDI-X: Unknown
        Supports Wake-on: d
        Wake-on: d
        Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
        Link detected: yes

Thanks in advance for the help.