My 30TB OVM installation with UnionFS & Snapraid

After long considering what to use and how to configure my new NAS system I made following NAS

HP Gen8 with Intel Xeon E3-1220 V2 @ 3.10GHz and 4GB Memory and 4x10TB and 1TB HDD running OMV

What I did was add the 4x10TB, Actually they where 3,5" external HDDs and I removed the casing. Why? Those disks are cheaper than buying one without enclosure

I wiped the disks in OMV5 and added them as seperate Disk1 to Disk4

Than I installed the plugin UnionFS and Pooled 3 disks together

than I have the SNAPRAID plugin and added the 3 disks as content/data disk and added one disk for parity.

As I have 3 other HP Gen8 with OMV4 as well I am now busy with mounting those NAS through NFS and than with a simple rsync command I am migrating all the data.

Now creating the shares and setting the access rights correctly will be somehing .. but W'll be busy some days. I have 17TB to migrate ..

Zitat von geaves

I'm putting that aside for a rainy day, just read you have to tape over the third pin as they enable the 3.3v pin.

nope.. only when using old kind of devices. My HP Gen8 is eating the 10TB without any modification.,

Zitat von noiro

Try to use the remote mount plugin if you have more than one OMV installations. It is quite handy.

I do that on the commandline, must mount the NFS share and use a simple but fast Rsync command

afterwards I am setting the permissions right.

cause with my old NAS devices (with OMV) I am not using users, so everyone is allowed to do everything, but with this new device I have some users and some shares are for everyone ..

as it is 100% home use I do not really care about permissions. Only 1 or 2 shared folders with some critical stuff is user protected

Zitat von Adoby

Even better than the remote plugin is autofs.

I have all my shares available on/from all my OMV servers, using autofs and nfs. And it is "selfhealing" so it doesn't matter what order servers are booted or rebooted. I use it for rsync snapshots between the OMV servers.

But autofs is in the command line realm...

So If I understand you correctly autofs takes care that if a NFS share is being lost it is being added automatically if a device is back online?

interesting.