Hi guys, I am a total NOOB in every way to OMV.
I have looked for some simple start guides, etc but none answer my questions. It seems you have to be a Linux expert.
Once you have OMV set up...
#1. If your hardware fails (Motherboard, computer, power supply, whatever) and you can't find a replacement hardware, and you NEED access to your OMV data, can you take one of your OMV drives out and plug it into a Windows machine with a USB SATA adapter, can you copy your data off the OMV drive to your windows computer? (Yes I know Windows is NTFS)
#2. There isn't a straightforward guide that I can find that explains STEP BY STEP, if your OMV drive fails, the correct procedure to remove it, put a new one in, and OMV rebuilds the drive. (do you need to format the drive first? If so what format?)
#3. If you want to expand storage space in the future, HOW is this done explained in a step by step method of removing the smaller drives and replacing with larger capacity drives.
One at a time?
My very first initial experience with OMV is very disapointment, because trying to ready through the forums, I am seeing conflicting info, sarcasm, squables, attitide.
I am not seeing a welcoming warm environment, and I am hoping you can all show me otherwise.
Just an FYI, I am not seeing much better on TrueNAS Scale for that matter.
As my first OMV test, I just set up an HP T620 Thin client. I bought an M2 SSD to USB adapter and put a 1TB SSD in it, watched a few YouTube videos, and everything is working fine with it, however it just is a perfect single point of failure, and it was just as a test to see how OMV works and to get it on the network.
I now want to use OMV with a true raid system, so I bought a few servers.
HP Proliant ML310e Gen8 V2 tower,
HP Proliant ML350 Gen8 tower (I love the look of these)
Dell Poweredge T310 tower (two of them as they only use 75 Watts)
Dell Poweredge 2900 tower (A real tank beast of a machine w/8 drive bays)
Yes, 4 servers, overkill to the extreme.
I am going to use some servers with OMV, and some with TrueNAS Scale.
This will give me the ultimate redundancy, and I will also use two servers offsite to make everything bulletproof.
I just wanted to explain the method to my madness.
The CRAZY thing is... the simple single point of failure with the HP T-620 thin client and the USB M2 SSD...it's formatted as NTFS, which means I can grab that, plug it into a USB drive on any Windows machine, and have instant access to my data, which is my concern with question #1.
Thank you all in advance.