Why I Switched to Proxmox from OpenMediaVault

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In this video we'll talk about why I'm switching from OpenMediaVault to Proxmox for my own self-hosting.

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Let me clear up the confusion about the title: since he migrated to proxmox being the primary OS running bare metal on his server, he found that the docker containers WITHIN his OMV VM were consuming more resources, so to mitigate this, he migrated some of his docker containers from the OMV install to the native LXC runtime that proxmox provides in order for the containers to be closer to bare metal, thus increasing resource efficiency (this is the conclusion that he gave in the video).

germas
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Amazing and how so timely. Thanks loads for the update and sharing your 'journey'.

A few months ago, I had "build" OMV setup based on an my older QNAP NAS including Docker, Portainer, etc. But quickly realised I would face a number of practical issues due to lack of upgradability of my QNAP hardware.

This led me to re-purpose an old server I had during which I came to know about Promox. I have now been looking to build around Proxmox including hosting firewall, NAS based on OMV or TrueNAS SCALE plus other VMs or CT towards being fully self-hosted.

So yes please, a series on "all-things Proxmox" would be great. Maybe some ideas for your consideration:

- shared storage pool for PVE; VMs & CTs
- ZFS and snapshots
- VM NAS Server: OMV vs. TrueNAS Scale vs. Other
- Docker, Portainer, Proxmox LXC, NextCloud, and Syncthing
- Securing Proxmox (PVE) and related VMs & CTs
- etc.. etc..

renovxperts
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Would be interested on a video showing the migration from OMV to Proxmox. For those of us that might be interested in following your path.

LandsharkTank
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I mentioned this in your OMV6 setup video and I know you already captured this, but us seniors would benefit greatly from larger fonts. I can't read your menus even with prescription readers. CTRL-Mouse-wheel-forward please.

I do click the like on every video and they are helpful - so thank you.

One last "best practice" tip for sight-challenged viewers like me - it's very helpful if you get in a habit of calling-out very specifically each time you navigate to a menu or button what exactly you are clicking on. E.g. "So that we can do the N-function, let's go to the X-menu and click on the X-option, then click on the Y-button, then we will see the Z-feature". It doesn't matter if you talk fast because I can pause, reverse, slow the video, or open the automatically generated transcript. That's another reason to be verbose, accurate, and descriptive - it enhances the transcript.

NOTE: in case people don't know - YouTube uses AI to generate transcripts of most dialogues - click on the ellipses by the "Save" menu option - must be logged into YouTube, then select Transcript.

jeffm
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Pretty excited to see some step by step of Proxmox. You helped me a lot with omv and pi videos (I'd still like to see some updated pi and omv videos too!). I have had proxmox installed on my machine for almost a year now and am still learning how to use it, especially lxc but am looking forward to more proxmox videos from you.

Jaredy
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Proxmox and OMV are totally different tools and for different purposes. Virtualization/Docker is an important but not necessarily a critical part of OMV.
Have you verified the "resource" used in the omv instance is actually occupied in htop or something simiar. Because how omv pre-allocates ram for quick transfer -- a feature -- the ram will almost always be close to 90% regardless the setup, within reason. I am not sure this behavior is transparent to proxmox, so from proxmox point of view, it IS using all the ram. Easy to solve by hard-capping the ram allocation.

YuyangJiang
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This is exactly what I'm looking to do, migrating from bare metal debian with manual shares and docker containers. I would definitely appreciated a series on Proxmox. I've seen the possibility of clusters, and I have a couple machines laying around that I could try that out on.

MichaelQuesadaMountain
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will be looking forward for the proxmox back up setting up and restoration video! :)

rogertan
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I also would love to see a proxmox series. Install, configuration, container delpoyment, backup, etc. Thank you Dave!

Francesco-ycxn
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Ok, big change!! Is very funny to me because recently I bought a mini-PC from lenovo to run something like OMV or Proxmox, I been using Proxmox for more larger implementations, but in this case, this mini-pc will be for me home lab, so yesterday I saw again the video that you publish I think on march explaining how ot install OMV and to my surprise today you publish this video!!!

Long story short, now I need to decide, however, previously I try used the LXC containers to install inside of these docker (that I think this how you install your containers) but thinking a litter bit regarding the idea of the container is decentralization services, so I'm not pretty sure about how much stable is use a container to run other container inside of this, in this case I'm more agree to use a VM and then inside of this run all the docker containers that you want, but of course this are my thoughts.

Noways, I'll be awaiting you new videos about this new learning curve with proxmox, which is a amazing VM's solution. Thanks for this kind of videos, always a greate job from you!

pedroporrasmedina
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Been running a Proxmox cluster for about a year. I started with a small dell optiplex running Proxmox and a pfsense vm, then added adguard home vm, wireguard vm. Then I got a dell R720 installed Proxmox, and moved my Exchange server from bare metal to a VM on the R720. Since then, I converted my PC to a 3rd node, and clustered up. It's just awesome being able to run many VM's on the various boxes to do all the things. Just wish the 3 boxes were of the same hardware so I can have HA between my nodes, but they are all too different to make that work.

mistakek
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I love promox! Would love to see more videos on this and about some of the advanced features too.

BrandonGroves
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Thanks great video!

I'd like the series on proxmox but are you going to use OMV on proxmox or something else for a NAS if so what would that be? as I've just set up OMV 6 on my pi 4 so how to put on a pi would be great too...

Cheers

indigowyrm
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Looking forward to more Proxmox content, been running with it in prod for almost 4 months now and have had nothing but good experiences, would definitely recommend the dark mode add on for the Proxmox dashboard

fryx
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I know this is a year old already, but just now got this in my recommended videos. I've been running OMV 5 for a couple years now, and have had very few issues with it. Just recently I acquired a Dell 7010 slimline with a Core i7 3770 @3.4 GHZ and 16 gb. of RAM, and did a fresh install of OMV 7.0.5 and the difference in performance is amazing! I have a Docker container running my Jellyfin home media server, and KVM running Win 10 Enterprise which handles my home security camera(s). OMV itself is also set up to handle backups for 2 other Windows machines and 3 Macintosh 'time machine' backups on my network. With scheduling the backups at different times, I have no problems with running out of resources. I don't really see an advantage to moving to ProxMox at the moment, but very interesting video anyway!😉

danw
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This is interesting. I'm about to install open media vault 6 coming from 5. I need to look into this more as I have a RAID 5 setup within OMV5 currently.

davidbanner
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amazing,
a video to convert from OMV to Proxmox might be amazing also, i dont want to lose the setup i was working on in OMV for almost a year

TheInfamousToTo
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Awesome video! I started using Proxmox recently too, and was saddened that I would not be able to manage my LXC containers with Portainer, to solve it I spawned an Ubuntu 22 server VM and am currently running my Portainer environament there, but your setup is much more logical, a LXC Container with DOCKER inside, simply genius!
Which images are you running in your LXC?

paulogodinho
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i would love a series like that. Keep up the awesome work!!

compthing
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As it happens, as OMV 6 has now come out, I was debating whether to go to omv6 or Truenas scale. I like OMV 6 as I use JBOD rather than same siz3 drives. I then I thought what about Proxmox? I watched Ibracorp's video on installing scale on Proxmox, so there is a little start.
But as others do, my main Nas stuff is my media stuff Jellyfin etc, using dockers. But I've been watching 'Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services' channel and he's got a ton of LXd/c container stuff, which I like the sound of :)
I just don't want to go from a OMV5 working great to a total ballsup where nothing works right, I like learning, but I still like it to all work.
I'm still getting splinters about what to do, I suppose my main thing it getting all the disks passed through or what ever I need to do.

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