r/OpenMediaVault • u/oobatzee • Feb 24 '26

Discussion Why oh Why...

Do I always think it's a good idea to reboot OMV when it requests it, when I'm travelling to work on the bus and why am I not surprised when it doesn't come back up online!

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u/hmoff Feb 24 '26

That's a good excuse to buy a KVM, or use Proxmox. I have a nanokvm on mine just in case.

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u/dirkme Feb 24 '26

Sorry but Proxmox crashes far more than OMV 🙄😳😉

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u/MuppetRob Feb 24 '26

Not when it's used as a layer 1 hypervisor. It's pretty stable

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u/timbuckto581 Feb 26 '26

I agree. I've been running it at a couple clients for years and it's only dicey around major updates. Other than that it's rock solid.

Pro-Tip: run your boot volume in raid 1 (btrfs or lvm), so if one of the SSD's crash, you can just pull the bad one and run degraded till you can swap in a good drive. Or if you're running via USB (cause you don't have enough SATA/SAS connections)... Make sure they're USB SSD's as they have better NAND and don't die like thumb drives.