Installing ZFS on a New Openmediavault Install Using Proxmox Kernal

Today, we'll install ZFS on a New Openmediavault Install using Proxmox kernal. ZFS is great for servers with multiple drives that need error checking.

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[brbubba]

Glad to see this is a mature feature now under OMV! I remember implementing this manually a few years ago.

[Dreadylock]

can you do a video for proxmox 8 and omv 6.5 zfs?

[TheTroposa]

Thanks that was perfect. Saved me loads of grief. Worked a charm.

[markharrison]

Great video, can you do a 2023 follow-up video to let us know if you still think it's a good idea to run ZFS on OMV?
Thanks

[azrd]

Great video. One issue I ran into was that omv did see all 4 of my drives in the disks menu but when I went to create a zfs pool only 2 of the drives showed up ! It turns out all I had to do was wipe whatever was on the 2 missing drives. The wipe is under the disks menu. click on the drive and click wipe.

[bartonyount]

Now that you have shown us how to install ZFS, can you explain BTRFS? Thanks

[Eyez]

Hey @TechnoDadLife! First, Really enjoy your videos and as a man learning about RAID vs ZFS this was super helpful. Couple of questions: Does OMV have the ability to do auto resilvering, adding a 'spare' to the zpool to auto rebuild should a disk fail, or in-general how does one go about rebuilding/recovering from a disk failure in say Raid-Z2? I'd LOVE to either know more about that, or see a video delving into ZFS pools more advanced options. :) - Bruce.

[yancylent]

Hi TDL! What if you start with a RAID1 ZFS pool in Proxmox? Would you follow this same tutorial but choose the single presented zfs based drive in OVM and select "Basic?" -Thanks in advance.

[ISleepPeople]

Do you still need the proxmox kernal to install ZFS in OMV 5?

[actionj]

I love your videos and you've been instrumental in my getting an OMV server up and running. Thank you. I'm wondering if you could do a video on setting up and configuring the SnapRaid plugin for OMV. Thanks again.

[yuvarajas]

Thanks for the Video. When I try to do the same, none of my disks are getting listed both in RAID and ZFS plugins. I tried both quick and secure disk wipes, but no luck. Currently using Proxmox with linux kernal version - Linux 5.4.78-2-pve. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

[AdrianoLeal]

Great video. Very good!
I have a doubt: What is the difference in using RAID in "Storage>>Raid Management" and in "zfs>>Create Pool>>RAID-Z*"?
I'm going to use the ZFS file system. Do I have to create the Raid directly in the ZFS options (zfs>>Create Pool>>RAID-Z*)? If I want to grow my pool, add more disks, is it possible?
Thank you for your attention and work.
Success.

[bahtiarakrov]

Can hou make tutorial how to replace hdd on zfs pool ?

[axnyslie]

I'm curious if you have a ZFS pool that was created in TrueNAS Core 12 could it be imported into OMV with the Import Pool function?

[marekculak]

hi, I have done the proxmox installation such as uninstalling non proxmox kernels. I can't find zfs plugin yet. I have the proxmox 6.x repo. Any thoughts ? thank you

[KeirBriscoe]

I have an existing OMV 5 install setup with Plex and a few other things using Docker. Is it safe to do the ZFS setup on this system or do I need to start with a fresh instal of OMV?

[frikvid]

Hi TechnoDad, thanks for this video, now i have a little DIY NAS with ZFS. Now i want to use a ZFS mirror for the root FS (like Proxmox do), obviously separated from the data FS.. It is possible? Thanks in advance!

[adeelleonardo]

Thanks for the excellent video tutorial. In my case i am moving from TrueNAS to OpenMediaVault. I managed to install zfs on OpenMediaVault using your guide. I managed to import the existing ZFS pools that were previously configured in TrueNAS into OpenMediaVault. But i am stuck at how to make these pools again visible through SMB on my network. I can create a shared folder on the pools and read and write data in the shared folder so does not look to be a permissions issue. I just cant seem to share the data that is already there on the pools. Maybe i am missing some step.

[ottoprotten]

How do you create a vdev in OMV (I want to put 3 mirrored vdevs in 1 stripe).

[supradj]

Hi! The same works with the newest OMV 5.0.5 and the Proxmox 6 - but in my case, i'm wondering about the ZFS management. You can add a Volume on a pool, but there are no confs about mountpoints. They will not mount anyway. Is there any workaround? Whats about the ACLs and Quota Manament?
cheers :D
THANKS FOR THE TUTORIAL!