As much as I love and would prefer to keep using OpenMediaVault and Linux as my OS/Distro of choice, I must sadly migrate away.

I don’t like having to work off old code and while the plug in manager for OMV is great and the web GUI is top notch and simple; the time between updates is too large. The core OS is using, by today’s standards, an ancient kernel.

So it is with a sigh I migrate off of OMV and move to Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials.
So far with my VM copy of Server 2k12 I’m actually quite impressed.I get an easy to use GUI, decent storage system manager, and a surprisingly powerful web server with tons of plug ins and a plug in manager!

Not to mention I’m trying to take the load off my personal PC and move most of my data to this server, than back it up to the cloud with CrashPlan. Sadly Carbonite Home doesn’t support server OS’s.

All in all, it’s going to be an interesting switch.