truenas

Hi, I am building the first Truenas Core NAS device for my upcoming homelab, I'd like to have some recommendations for missing hardware options. Purpose of use - Home NAS for my family - Mainly a media server (Movies, photos, office stuff etc.) - Only NAS functions, all applications, VMs...

Hi. I am looking for someone to help me set up a home do-it-all home server. I will be setting up a couple for friends and family, so Ansible experience would be a plus, I can probably figure the Ansible part out myself, so not a requirement. Basically I want to set up proxmox with a couple of...

I have a synology ds920+ in and have replaced several drives and have a collection of 8tb Seagate compute (yes i know some are smr, hourly i can still use them?) and Toshiba n300 drives and an ironwolf. I wanted to create storage that i can put together a collection of retro files on (all kinds...

Greetings all. I finally got the go ahead to turn one of our basement closets into my dream home lab. It's got plenty of space for a full-size 42U rack and we just installed a dedicated mini-split for climate control in that closet. I'm super exited about starting the build, but having anxiety...

I picked up a Supermicro X11SSH-F board for a new NAS build, paired with an E3-1270 v5, and bought a Noctua NH-L12S to cool it. I was getting everything ready when I realized the CPU backplate on the Supermicro board is not removable, and that heat sink requires the included backplate due to its...

Hi all. Been down the NAS rabbit hole for a month now and still struggling to make the right decision, here's where I'm at: Currently taking a workstation build to turn into a NAS server... I'm realizing that I can no longer use the computer as a workstation if I go the TrueNAS route -...

Hi TLDR: should I persue Tailscale on TrueNAS core or embark on the headache of migrating to scale? Long version: Apologies, I am a technoweenie trying to make sense of these things. I have a trueNAS core working nicely and I want to expose it via VPN. I was going with pfsense and openVPN...

Long time reader and watcher, first time posting. I have been using FreeNAS and TrueNAS for quite some time. I have bought their hardware also. I like it so much I have convinced three employers to purchase their hardware with TrueNAS. In my most recent purchase, we bought an X20 chassis with...

Can something like this be achieved with TrueNAS Scale? Basic Idea: 1) One Mirror Pool with 3 ZVols, each containing a Windows 11 VM ( I can create 3 different Pools if need be ) 2) Pass through 3 Nvidia A4000 to these three VMs respectively as the GPU 3) Output the VM i.e., Windows on an...

tl;dr I just got an Optane drive. I'm currently running 2 SSDs in mirror as ZIL, I want to remove them and use only the Optane drive as ZIL. How can I do this? My current setup is as follows: Xeon D-1541 8c/16t 64GB DDR4 ECC Registered 6x12TB drives in RAIDZ2 (72TB raw, 48TB usable) 1x512GB...

So I am trying to consolidate my lab into one device. I currently have a Dell R720, Dell R520, and a custom build server I am running. The R720 is my main server. The R520 is supposed to be my bulk storage, but I haven't used it since I put it together. The custom build server was supposed to...

Hi, Synology DSM user here. I'm considering moving away from DSM. TrueNAS is an option. Now, I just heard about TrueNAS Scale and I like that it's based on Debian (compared to FreeBSD for other TrueNAS variants). I just quite don't understand if this is meant to be a commercial product (aimed...

First I initially wanted to pass through the whole HBA but then I couldn't boot TrueNAS if I did that. I ended up just passing each disk one at a time. The performance is great, the scrubs and smart tasks are working fine, but there are two little quirks that I've noticed. One quirk is that the...

Hi all, I am looking for some advice on a new NAS build that I am planing todo to replace my Synology DS918+ and some Pis to one machine. Things I run: - Docker: various containers including syncthing and adguard home with its own IP within my LAN network - Home Assistant with zigbee stick...

So, Recently I picked up a dell R720XD for a good deal, and I am waiting for my drives to come in to use it as a home NAS. I planned on using truenas with a raidz2 setup using Dell SAS drives and to boot off a raid1 setup using the rear back-plane on the 720xd for a pair of SATA SSDs. In doing...

Hello, I need some help on a project that I am working on. I apologize for the length, but I wanted to be thorough. Background: I am a CCNA guy, server noob, who works in IT and through my job, I was able to acquire a lot of free decommissioned equipment from various data centers and server...

I’m trying to configure a 10Gb fiber link between my two ESX and my TrueNAS Scale. I configured all my IP address correctly (subnet/netmask) but I’m unable to ping the destination interface. As the connection are direct between both machines, vlan is not configured. My first idea is to think my...

This TrueNAS CORE box is going to be used exclusively for VMware ESXi datastores via iSCSI (with sync writes enabled). Supermicro H12SSL-NT Epyc 7262 2 x DDR4-3200 64GB ECC DIMMs (fully populate with 8 eventually) Noctua NH-U12S TR4-SP3 CPU cooler/fan Seasonic Prime TX 750W power supply Boot...

Hello everyone, i am new here so excuse me if this isn't the correct subforum or something. I have the following Idea and resulting Problem: Recently i bought a Synology NAS (DS220J) to backup my main TrueNAS system to. Saw some reviews that made everything seem very simple but in the real...

Hi, I already have a built-in H310 mini controller that came with the Dell R720 server. It was flashed in IT mode and working as expected. Now I wish to install TrueNas VM using proxmox and I can't pass this as is because I have my SSDs connected to it as well which form the ZFS pool for VMs...