Features

openmediavault includes the following key features:

Core

  • Based on Debian Linux
  • Web based administration
  • Easy system updates via Debian package management
  • User management
  • Scheduled jobs
  • Multilanguage support
  • Service announcement via DNS-SD/Zeroconf
  • Certificate management
  • Plugin system

Networking

  • Link aggregation
  • Wake On Lan
  • IPv6 support

Volume management

  • HDD power management (APM/AAM)
  • GPT partitions
  • EXT3/EXT4/XFS/JFS/Btrfs/… file system support
  • Software RAID JBOD/0/1/5/6/…
  • Quota (per volume)
  • ACL
  • Share management
  • Snapshot management of shared folders on Btrfs file systems
  • Automatic scheduled tasks for Btrfs scrubbing and error checks

Monitoring

  • Syslog
  • Watchdog
  • S.M.A.R.T.
  • SNMP (v1/2c/3) (read-only)
  • Email notifications
  • Proactive process and system state monitoring

Services

  • SSH
  • NFS (v3/v4)
  • SMB/CIFS
  • RSync

Plugins

With the plugin system it is possible to add additional software/services, e.g.

  • Antivirus
  • DAAP/MPD/RSP server
  • LVM
  • Shairport
  • SNMP
  • FTP
  • TFTP
  • UPS
  • USB Backup
  • Microsoft OneDrive
  • PhotoPrism
  • FileBrowser
  • S3
  • SSH web console
  • Kubernetes

Apps

With the Kubernetes or Compose plugin it is possible to install containerized/dockerized applications.