homelab-docs: NAS Setup

This document outlines the complete hardware and software setup I implemented for my NAS.

I use Proxmox as it offers significant flexibility, allowing the deployment of both VMs and LXCs.

The storage setup includes 4 x Seagate IronWolf 2TB 3.5-inch Internal Hard Drives (ST2000VN004) configured in RAIDz1 (a ZFS equivalent to RAID5). The resulting ZFS pool is shared via NFS wherever required.

To set up OpenMediaVault (OMV) within a Linux Container (LXC), I used the Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts. The previously mentioned NFS share was mounted using the openmediavault-remotemount plugin.

This NFS share serves as the home directory for users.

Additionally, I installed Nextcloud using Docker within the same LXC environment.

Future plans include running more Docker containers managed through Portainer, with potential applications such as Plex, Ubiquiti, and others that I have yet to finalize.

Notes Link to heading

To address an issue during bulk shutdown where the NFS server was terminated before the container could unmount the NFS share, I made adjustments to the nfs-server.service and pve-container@<container_number>.service files.

The following configurations were applied:

root@mainserver:~# cat /etc/systemd/system/pve-container@<container_number>.service.d/override.conf 
[Unit]
Requires=nfs-server.service
After=nfs-server.service

root@mainserver:~# cat /etc/systemd/system/nfs-server.service.d/override.conf 
[Unit]
PartOf=pve-container@<container_number>.service

For example, if your container number is 120, the service name would be [email protected].

TODO Link to heading

• Add detailed setup for Nextcloud.
• Document the configuration for SMB shares.