Openmediavault is a simple, out-of-the-box solution for anyone who wants to set up an attached storage network in their home office or small office. With this easy-to-use solution, anyone can easily create and manage a network attached storage system without any prior experience.

This is the ideal solution for those who want to easily build and manage the equipment needed to make some storage available over the local network. Due to its Ethernet and USB 3.0 connections, Raspberry Pi is the ideal operating system for it.

I will be using a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B with 4GB of RAM, although this amount is definitely excessive for the task at hand. I will probably switch to one with far less memory. Only 3.1% of the memory is now being utilised beyond 4GB. We have mentioned steps below to Install OpenMediaVault on a Raspberry Pi

Steps to Install OpenMediaVault on a Raspberry Pi

To connect to raspberry Pi using SSH, you will need to install the ssh client. You can find the ssh client on your computer by searching for it in the Windows search box and then clicking on the link. If you are using a Mac, you can also install the ssh client by following these steps:

  1. Open Terminal and type “ssh” into the Terminal window.
  2. When the ssh client is installed, it will start up and ask for your password. Type in your password and hit return.
  3. The ssh client will then show a message saying that it has been installed successfully. If you have any problems connecting to raspberry Pi, please check out our troubleshooting guide for more information.

Open a terminal window and connect to your Raspberry Pi 4 over SSH. If you’re on the latest version of Windows 11 you can use the cmd terminal or Powershell. If not you will need PuTTY. Follow our installation guide here.

Connect to your Raspberry Pi over SSH on Linux and type: raspberrypi@linux:~$ ssh

We need to update the Raspberry Pi OS to ensure that it has all the latest package updates installed. This will include new features and bug fixes.

To install OpenMediaVault 6, you can use the bash install Script. ..

OMV bash install script from Github

https://github.com/omv/omv-bash

Final Words

OpenMediaVault is a NAS solution that’s based on Debian Linux. It offers loads of various options and more importantly, operates really well on a Raspberry Pi! The creation of multiple OpenMediaVault tutorials is my aim.