Software:OpenMediaVault
Web interface (2024) | |
Developer | Volker Theile |
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Written in | Web interface: PHP, JavaScript (Ext JS) |
OS family | Unix-like |
Working state | Current |
Source model | Open source |
Initial release | 17 October 2011 |
Marketing target |
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Available in | English, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian[1] |
Update method | APT |
Package manager | dpkg |
Platforms | |
Kernel type | Monolithic (Linux) |
Userland | GNU |
Default user interface | Web-based |
License | Free software (GPL v3) |
Preceded by | FreeNAS v0.7 |
Official website | www |
OpenMediaVault (OMV) is a free Linux distribution designed for network-attached storage (NAS).[2][3] The project's lead developer is Volker Theile, who instituted it in 2009. OMV is based on the Debian operating system, and is licensed through the GNU General Public License v3.[4]
Background
By the end of 2009, Volker Theile was the only active developer of FreeNAS, a NAS operating system that Olivier Cochard-Labbé started developing from m0n0wall in 2005.[5][6][7] m0n0wall is a variation of the FreeBSD operating system, and Theile decided he wanted to rewrite FreeNAS for Linux. The project team had known for months that FreeNAS needed a major rewrite in order to support crucial features.[6] Since Cochard-Labbé preferred to stay with a FreeBSD-based system, he and Theile agreed that Theile would develop his Linux version under a different name;[5] that name was initially coreNAS, but within a matter of days Theile discarded it in favour of OpenMediaVault.[7]
Technical design
Theile chose Debian because the large number of programs in its package management system meant that he wouldn't have to spend time repackaging software himself.[8] OpenMediaVault makes a few changes to the Debian operating system. It provides a Web-based user interface for administration and customisation, and a plug-in API for implementing new features. One can install plug-ins through the Web interface.
Features
- Multi-language, Web-based graphical user interface[9]
- Protocols: CIFS (via Samba), FTP, NFS (versions 3 and 4), SSH, rsync, iSCSI, AFP and TFTP
- Software-RAID (levels 0, 1, 4, 5, 6, and 10, plus JBOD)
- Monitoring: Syslog, Watchdog, S.M.A.R.T., SNMP (v1, 2c, and 3) (read-only)
- Statistic reports via e-mail
- Statistic graphs for the CPU-workload, LAN transfer rates, hard disk usage and RAM allocation
- GPT/EFI partitioning >2 TByte possible
- File systems: ext2, ext3, ext4, Btrfs, XFS, JFS, NTFS, FAT32
- Quota
- User and group management
- Access controls via ACL
- Link aggregation bonding, Wake-on-LAN
- Plug-in system
Plug-ins
By default, OpenMediaVault comes with a limit set of plug-ins. These include:
- AirPlay – Stream music wirelessly to your iPod/iPad/iPhone/iTunes.
- ClamAV – Antivirus software[10]
- Diskstats – Complementary plugin to extend system statistics collection by adding I/O statistic graphs.
- Digital Audio Access Protocol (DAAP) – provides audio files in a local network (also for iTunes)
- FileBrowser – File managing interface.
- FTP – Provides a modular FTP/SFTP/FTPS server.
- Logical Volume Manager – enables the possibility to create and administrate dynamic partitions
- Network UPS Tools, to support the use of an uninterruptible power supply
- OneDrive – Synchronizing a shared folder with Microsoft OneDrive cloud storage.
- PhotoPrism – AI-powered app for browsing, organizing & sharing your photo collection.
- Podman – A tool for managing containers and images, volumes mounted into those containers, and pods made from groups of containers.
- S3 – MinIO based high-performance, S3 compatible object storage.
- ShareRootFs – Provides shared directories on root file system.
- SNMP
- TFTP
- USB Backup – Allows (automatic) backups to external USB hard disks
- WeTTY – Terminal access in browser over HTTP/HTTPS.
Third-party plug-ins
Additional plug-ins are available via additional package repositories. The majority of those Plug-ins are developed by a group called OpenMediaVault Plugin Developers.[11] The status of all Plug-ins can be viewed online.[12] In October 2014 there were around 30 plugins available. In June 2015 there were more than 70 stable plug-ins available.
Some of the software that is controllable via third-party plug-ins are:[13]
- File synchronization: BitTorrent Sync and Syncthing
- Calibre – e-book manager
- Backup: Borg, Clonezilla, duplicati, rsnapshot and SystemRescueCD
- CUPS – print server
- Docker
- eXtplorer – Web-based file manager
- Greyhole, Union mount, and SnapRAID
- KVM
- Let's Encrypt
- Database servers: MySQL / MariaDB and PostgreSQL
- Nginx – Web server
- virtual private networking: OpenVPN and WireGuard
- Media servers: minidlna, Plex and Subsonic
- Download managers: pyLoad and JDownloader
- RDP
- Roundcube – Web-based mail client
- SYSLINUX – Preboot Execution Environment (PXE)
- Usenet download managers: Sickbeard, SABnzdb, Headphones, Couch Potato
- Transmission – a BitTorrent client
- Video Disk Recorder
- VirtualBox – virtual machine host
- WebDAV
- WordPress – blog software
- ZFS – an advanced file system
- and many more
Minimum System requirements
- Any Architecture/hardware[14][15] that is supported by Debian
- 1 GiB RAM
- 4 GiB hard drive, solid-state drive, or USB flash drive with static wear leveling support for the OS.
- 1 hard drive, solid-state drive, or USB flash drive for storing user data
Release history
For each OpenMediaVault release, Theile chooses a project code name from Frank Herbert's Dune novels.[16]
Version | Name | Release Date | EOL Date | Base | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0.2 | Ix | 2011-10-17[17] | ? | Debian 6 | Named for the planet Ix. |
0.3 | Omnius | 2012-04-18[18] | 2012-12-30[19] | Introduced multi-language web interface and graphical user prompt for rights administration via Access Control List. The release is named for Omnius, a sentient computer network in the Legends of Dune trilogy. | |
0.4 | Fedaykin | 2012-09-21[20][21] | 2013-12-09[22] | Named for the Fedaykin commandos of the Fremen people. | |
0.5 | Sardaukar | 2013-08-25[23] | ? | Revised API renders v0.4 plugins incompatible.[24] | |
1.0 | Kralizec | 2014-09-15[25] | 2015-12-26[26] | Debian 7 | Improves support for weaker systems; adds a dashboard with support for widgets; improved infrastructure for plug-ins. This release is named for Kralizec, a battle predicted to occur at the end of the universe. |
2.0 | Stone burner | 2015-06-29[27][28] | 2017-12-06[29] | Sencha ExtJS 5.1.1 Framework for the WebGUI; revised GUI supports configuration of WiFi, VLAN, et al. This release is named for the stone burner, a nuclear weapon held by House Atreides. | |
3.0 | Erasmus[30] | 2017-06-13 | 2018-07-09[31] | Debian 8 | Named for the robot Erasmus. |
4.0 | Arrakis[32] | 2018-05-08 | 2020-06-30[33] | Debian 9 | Named for the planet Dune. |
5.0[34] | Usul[35] | 2020-03-30 | 2022-06-30[36] | Debian 10 | Named for the secret name of Paul Atreides (Usul) in Dune. |
6.0[37] | Shaitan | 2022-05-04[38] | ? | Debian 11 | Named for the Fremen term for demon and later to the transformed God Emperor Leto Atreides II |
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See also
- Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
- Storage Area Network (SAN)
- TrueNAS (formerly FreeNAS) - the FreeBSD-based NAS from which OpenMediaVault was originally forked
- NexentaOS - open source OS and enterprise class NAS with kernel based ZFS
- Openfiler - CentOS-based NAS operating system
- XigmaNAS - another FreeBSD-based NAS operating system, XigmaNAS is a continuation of the original FreeNAS code which was developed between 2005 and late 2011
References
- ↑ "OpenMediaVault". https://www.transifex.com/votdev/openmediavault/.
- ↑ Huber, Mathias (8 December 2009). "FreeNAS: BSD Line and Linux Fork". http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/FreeNAS-BSD-Line-and-Linux-Fork.
- ↑ Halfacree, Gareth (19 July 2012). "WHS Alternatives: Media Streaming". http://www.bit-tech.net/bits/software/2012/07/19/replace-whs/2.
- ↑ GNU General Public License Version 3, 29 June 2007
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Baader, Hans-Joachim (20 October 2011). "Erste Version der NAS-Distribution OpenMediaVault" (in German). http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/17630/erste-version-der-nas-distribution-openmediavault.html.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "FreeNAS vs OpenMediaVault". iXsystems. http://www.freenas.org/freenas-vs-openmediavault/.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Thoma, Jörg (7 December 2009). "FreeNAS bleibt bei FreeBSD" (in German). http://www.golem.de/0912/71700.html.
- ↑ Seifried, Steven (10 April 2015). "Interview with OpenMediaVault developer Volker Theile". http://www.canox.net/2015/04/interview-with-openmediavault-developer-volker-theile/.
- ↑ "OpenMediaVault Features". https://www.openmediavault.org/features.html.
- ↑ "OpenMediaVault Package Repository". http://packages.openmediavault.org/public/pool/main/o/.
- ↑ github.com, "OpenMediaVault Plugin Developers" Retrieved 2014-10-03
- ↑ omv-extras.org, "Latest updates..." Retrieved 2014-10-03
- ↑ "OpenMediaVault Plugin Developers Package Repository". http://packages.openmediavault.org/public/pool/main/o/.
- ↑ debian.org/ports. Debian Website, List of ports
- ↑ wiki.debian.org/Hardware. Debian Wiki, Supported Hardware
- ↑ Theile, Volker (14 July 2011). "First release of OpenMediaVault is called Ix". https://www.openmediavault.org/?p=456.
- ↑ OpenMediaVault 0.2 (Ix) has been released
- ↑ OpenMediaVault 0.3 BETA available
- ↑ OpenMediaVault 0.3.x end-of-life
- ↑ Package repository for 0.4 (Fedaykin) is up
- ↑ New updates available - OpenMediaVault 0.4.0.1 released
- ↑ OMV 0.4 EOL
- ↑ OpenMediaVault 0.5 (Sardaukar) released
- ↑ OpenMediaVault Blog. 3rd Party Plug-ins. Retrieved 2013-08-31
- ↑ OpenMediaVault 1.0 (Kralizec) released
- ↑ OMV 1.x is now EOL
- ↑ OMV 2.0 (Stone Burner) will be available soon
- ↑ Release of OpenMediaVault 2.1 (Stone burner)
- ↑ OMV 2.x is now EOL
- ↑ Theile, Volker (17 December 2015). "OMV 3 (Erasmus) on Debian 8 (Jessie)". https://www.openmediavault.org/?p=1785*.
- ↑ OMV 3.x is now EOL
- ↑ Theile, Volker (27 February 2017). "Results from SUSE Hack Week". https://www.openmediavault.org/?p=2076.
- ↑ openmediavault 4 goes EOL
- ↑ Theile, Volker (21 August 2019). "Releases". https://openmediavault.readthedocs.io/en/latest/releases.html.
- ↑ Theile, Volker (4 May 2022). "Results from Openmediavault Blog". https://www.openmediavault.org/?p=3220.
- ↑ openmediavault 5 goes EOL
- ↑ Theile, Volker (4 May 2022). "Releases". https://openmediavault.readthedocs.io/en/latest/releases.html.
- ↑ Theile, Volker (4 May 2022). "Release of openmediavault 6 (Shaitan)". https://www.openmediavault.org/?p=3201.
External links
- OpenMediaVault on SourceForge.net
- OpenMediaVault on DistroWatch
- OpenMediaVault on PcMac
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMediaVault.
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