OpenMediaVault

OpenMediaVault

Screenshot of OpenMediaVault WebGUI
Developer(s)	Volker Theile
Stable release	0.2.5.4  (November 17, 2011; 3 days ago (2011-11-17)) [+/−]
Operating system	Debian
Platform	i386/IA-32 and x86-64
Available in	English
Type	Computer storage
License	GNU General Public License
Website	http://openmediavault.org

OpenMediaVault is a free network-attached storage server, supporting: CIFS (Samba), FTP, NFS, rsync, AFP protocols, iSCSI, S.M.A.R.T., local user authentication, and software RAID (0,1,5), with a web-based configuration interface. OpenMediaVault is currently distributed as an ISO image and in source form. OpenMediaVault needs to be installed on a Compact Flash, USB, or dedicated hard drive. Using the dedicated hard drive will use that drive just for the operating system, and files cannot be stored on it.

The web interface and the PHP scripts are based on FreeNAS. OpenMediaVault is released under the GNU General Public License.

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Features

• Protocols: CIFS (via Samba), TFTP, FTP, NFS, SSH, rsync, AFP, UPnP, BitTorrent (protocol) and iTunes.
• Extensions (plug-ins) for: SlimServer, Xbox Media Stream Protocol.
• rsync server, client and local sync.
• Unison support.
• iSCSI targets feature to create virtual disks.
• iSCSI initiator.
• Dynamic DNS client for: DynDNS, ZoneEdit, No-Ip, and freedns.afraid.org.
• File systems: ZFS, UFS and ext2/ext3 are fully supported, NTFS read/write and FAT32 read/write supported.
• Hard drive: P-ATA/S-ATA, SCSI, iSCSI, USB and FireWire.
• GPT/EFI partitioning for hard drives larger than 2 Terabytes.
• Network cards: All wired and wireless cards supported by Debian.
• Boot from HDD, USB key, CompactFlash, CD-ROM + floppy disk, or USB flash.
• Hardware RAID cards: All those supported by Debian.
• Software RAID levels: 0, 1, 5, JBOD, 5+0, 5+1, 0+1, 1+0, etc. (using GEOM and g_raid5).
• 4KB sector formatting support for hard drives using advanced formats such as Western Digital WD10EARS, WD15EARS, WD20EARS, and WD30EZRS.
• Disk encryption with geli.
• Management of groups and users (Local User authentication or Microsoft Domains).
• S.M.A.R.T. support.
• Remote syslogd forwarding.
• SNMP monitoring (Netgraph and MibII).
• Email log and reporting notification.
• VLAN support
• Link aggregation and link failover interface
• UPS (Uninterruptible power supply) support

See also

• Comparison of iSCSI targets
• CryptoNAS - NAS especially for encrypted partitions (Debian-based Live-CD, GPL)
• NASLite - another low-cost commercial NAS operating system from the developers of NanoNAS
• Nexenta - Open source OS and enterprise class NAS with kernel based ZFS
• Open-E - Unified file and block storage management software that supports NAS, iSCSI, InfiniBand, Fibre Channel, SAN and Failover
• Openfiler
• FreeNAS - a FreeBSD version of OpenMediaVault
• napp-it - free browser-managed ZFS Internet-Nas-San-Server for user with less computer or opensolaris experience
• PulsarOS - Another attempt to create a NAS operating system
• Zentyal

References

1. ^ "FreeNAS Switching From FreeBSD To Debian Linux". Slashdot.com. http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/12/06/152205/FreeNAS-Switching-From-FreeBSD-To-Debian-Linux?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+(Slashdot). Retrieved 2009-12-07. 
2. ^ "FreeNAS ready for the next step !". FreeNAS Blog. http://blog.freenas.org/2009/12/freenas-ready-for-next-step.html. Retrieved 2009-12-10. 
3. ^ "Rumours of FreeNAS Death Greatly Exaggerated". FreeNAS blog. http://www.learnfreenas.com/blog/2009/12/05/rumours-of-freenas-death-greatly-exaggerated/. Retrieved 2009-12-05. 

External links

• OpenMediaVault Homepage
• Documentation
• Bugtracker
• Forums
• Gallery
• Mailing list