OMV on ESXi or bare-metal installation

jacklayne · 23. Februar 2015

Hi at all,

i'm new and i'm happy to join this community

I should change my nas/server, ( Debian+OMV or OMV directly ) and i can choose to use my "old" Intel Atom D510 ( for the moment ) for bare-metal installation or install XPE as virtual machine on ESXi with the hardisk connected as RDM.

Pro and cons????
Thanks

dethegeek · 18. März 2015

Hi

I used OMV in several ways :

- physical setup
- ESXi guest with RDM drives for data storage
- Proxmox KVM guest with direct access to data drives, in a similar manner as RDM for ESXi.

All runs fine.

For a physical setup :
pro : easy to setup
cons : need to shutdown OMV to backup by hands the system, (example : before upgrading it to a new major version)

For an ESXi guest
pro : less hardware if you want to host several VMs
cons : really, I don't know what to put here

For a KVM guest :
pro : it's an open source hypervisor
cons : slower than ESXi

I ran several years with ESXi and RDM disks, and had no issue.
No issue too wuth KVM but I ran much less time in this config.

Physical setup : no issue.

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