Spoiler alert: Red Shirt Wendel survives the NAS software configuration.

@error4159

Жыл бұрын

I was wondering if he dead by the end, lol

Thank God for written guides. It's a rare occurrence nowadays.

Wendel... You are the only person on KZread, that I can truly trust your information. I have learned so much from you over the years. Getting my feet wet with TruNAS core and built my first NAS/Server about 3 months ago now on an Optiplex 990 (i7-2600). Creating a ZFS Pool was a 1st for me, and setting up an SMD Share... I'm sure I haven't made it the most efficient config, But I'm learning! Thank you for everything you share!!!

@futuregootecks

Жыл бұрын

Amen! Long live Saint Wendell! 🎉

Truenas Scale and Truecharts being "sort of clunky" is a ridiculous understatement. The documentation is horrendous as well. I am 2 seconds away from going back to proxmox and never looking back

Wow I ran into the network share issue last year and thought I was crazy. Lazy solution, I setup a 2nd truenas system in the lab to act as a network share for VMs on the first. Glad to finally find a workaround. Leave it to Wendell to solve a problem I never asked about 😂

@wayland7150

Жыл бұрын

It seems like a cludge work around because it's tied to physical hardware with a 1gb/s limitation where as virtually it could be 10gb/s.

Thank you for another wonderful upload! I'm enjoying the homelab content so much!

Thanks Wendel, I was stuck on this for a few days until I ran across your video.

❤ thank you Wendell Enterprise king 👑 of nerds Seriously though, these walkthroughs are amazing and having an old HP z420 server and running TrueNAS + apps makes my brain go bbbrrrrr with all this optimization 🙏🏼

I've been using truecharts for some of my containers and, as you said early on, they're not very transparent and tend to force you to use their specific workflows. On top of that, I always run into issues with their containers whenever I try to do updates. It's definitely going to be a rough process but this video will definitely help me to transition away from truecharts apps. Also, Tailscale also opens up a lot of possibilities when it comes to remotely accessing my services securely and more simply. So thanks for that too!

Didn't know about Tailscale, was exactly what I always wanted to access my NAS over Internet. Thank you!

Your videos are always top quality. Thanks!

This channel is SO UNDERAPPRECIATED!! Great video! I'm waiting to have the budget to start tipping my toes.

Duuuuude thank you Wendel!!! Fixed my issue with JellyFin so now it should be able to see my nas shares! FINALLY!

I had this issue trying to set up twingate on my Truenas set up. I could not for the life of me figure out why I could connect to other virtual machines hosted in truenas, but could not connect to the truenas dashboard. I've been wracking my brain for a few weeks trying to figure out why it wasn't working. Can confirm the network bridge fixed it. Such an easy fix but easily overlooked. Thanks Wendell. :)

Nice video Wendell. The wonkiness of the networking is a big turn off for new DIYers, whereas us old farts just sigh and fight thru it. Sadly this means when non techs ask what I recommend for home NAS storage and basic messing around, I just sigh and say Synology.

I pulled the trigger on unraid after trying and horribly failing at setting up truenas. Needed this video a year ago :P Awesome content as always!

@BGraves

Жыл бұрын

unRAID is much better...

The best thing about this video was listening to Wendell's aggrieved tone of voice when discussing the broken network stack for TrueNAS Scale. I imagine that's what I sound like to other people when I'm complaining about it stuff myself.

Love your videos Wendell, working on my own home NAS atm. But an idea for a future video because its a huge point of stress for me... disaster recovery for this kind of setup. FreeNAS scale, Portainer... what needs to be done when you loose a drive, or even your boot drive, or other hardware failures.

This is so awesome. Thanks Wendell

I learned a lot from you in past 4 - 5 months! At this moment my home server setup: 12th Gen i7 Intel NUC with 64GB Ram, 240SSD hosting Proxmox and 2TB NVME for VMs. One VM is TrueNAS Scale which handles 16TB Mirror rust drives (Attached Drive BAY). Stores everything from Proxmox (Backups, ISOs, CT Templates, VM Additional drives, iSCSI 5TB drive for my work PC) Addition to TrueNAS, Proxmox spinning another 5 VMs and 10 CT Containers. Drive bay + NUC with all the stuff using on average 45 - 50w

@POPnRollApps

10 ай бұрын

How is it going with TrueNas Scale running on a VM? Did you pass-through all the drives? And does it properly use the allocated RAM?

Switching from unraid to truenas. Followed this tutorial and got portainer going. Now to get all my apps going!

i was wondering why you went through a VM just to install Portainer instead of through docker on TrueNAS... but then i read the writeup! ok. was very well explained and makes a lot (more) sense. thanks for the writeup!

That was a nice 1 minute case review. Looks good

Eek. Glad i watched this. Been wanting to consolidate a few systems into one more modern, and this has me rethinking my direction, which was basically this without knowing the landmines.

@charlescc1000

Жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly. Call me crazy but I think iX is massively over complicated things by not natively supporting plain vanilla Docker. I’m happy to use portainer as the webUI, but I’d like to run the Docker on the host itself, not in a VM. Maybe that is considered bad practice and that is why they are not doing it that way? But they are offering K3s on the host so I can’t imagine how Docker on host and K3s on host are very different in terms of ‘best practices’ Oh well. Stuck with 2 home servers

@BGraves

Жыл бұрын

unRAID will do the trick

I'm using a Fractal R6 for my home server, and yeah the bridge network took me awhile to figure out when I tried the truenas scale beta. Also personally I moved my docker stuff to a rpi4 due to the memory leak issue awhile back, not moving back since I find it easier to manage for docker.

Thanks! I had the same issue with the tailscale instance not showing up on the tailscale web ui. The command you showed fixed it

Amazing guide! Finally set up nextcloud and tailscale and everything works over the tailscale-provided IPs; but I still can't get IPs from my local subnet to work... I guess I'll keep debugging, but even at this point the functionality is fantastic!

I'm glad I saw this. Seriously rethinking if I would be able to get this up and running. Haha

Great tutorial. Thank you!

The whole solution sounds good. would love to try this soon. I goign to setup new lab on some old server I found from work. I am looking forward to tailscale as a solution to connect to home devices when not at home. :)

Excellent very detailed video I could understand outstanding thank you

One important thing to mention about the bridging. If you have a VM running or set to 'Autostart', make sure you have it off, or none of the bridge changes will work.

@TheFabie37

Жыл бұрын

^ This. Stopping any active VMs will allow it to work from the gui

Awesome, thanks for that! Can we get that guide extended with VLANs, to have some network separation? Bunch of containers should be visible only to user devices, other to servers, yet another to IOT...

Great video as always. I ran into exactly this issue after i gave up on the (horrible) kubernetes implentation. Went with Ubuntu server with docker instead. Wishlist for videos: 1. Traefik for Nextcloud 2. Obsidian

@hotstovejer

Жыл бұрын

I have Nextcloud running through Traefik and Authelia (Gonna switch over to Authentik soon...) So if you would like the labels I used, let me know. :)

@zyntax81

Жыл бұрын

@@hotstovejer Thanks mate 🙏 No need though I also have it running. But it would be great content :) Also obsidian is one of the best things I am using, would be fun to see how Wendell would use it.

Thank you, Wendel :) I'll install Proxmox

Please do the Tailscale video. Thanks for the video!

Thanks!

Wendell, you've mentioned a few times sleeping HDDs in TrueNAS; Is that (and hopefully other TrueNAS tuning) coming in a future video/forum post?

@QuantumConundrum

Жыл бұрын

This and automated cold storage have been ideas I am trying to make happen for my setup. Very nice.

@TheExard3k

Жыл бұрын

If you move the system dataset to your boot drive, HDDs shouldn't have activity anymore. But with 100 VMs/containers asking for stuff, you can't really send HDDs to sleep. You can squeeze a minute or two out of the writes with zfs_txg_timeout and over engineered cache for reads, but ZFS is meant for performance, not idle state. Let the drives spin in idle (

Nom, nom, nom, let me consume your knowledge 👾

Great video! Do you have any recommendation for a quiet PSU to build a NAS. The eight year old psu of my homeserver just went up in smokes and I am looking for a new one. Thanks for your help in advance.

Good content as always and I love the server stuff. However I’ve tried Scale multiple times including the most recent version as of writing this. I continuously ran into issues or paper cuts here and there unfortunately. Core on the other hand has been rock solid for me - if you don’t use behyve.

That's weird! I thought that network share issues (not allowing guests to ping the host) was by design. All of the virtual network setups in KVM for example (I used it on Fedora, Ubuntu) required removing the default virtual network and setting up a bridge manually. I think generally it may kinda sorta be a good idea in the majority of virtualization scenarios (by default).

got stuck on giving my client permissions so I just made it open to everyone on my local network to use. Probably not best practice but this nas is just for fun I'm fine with it. Thanks for the great guide!

Damn W you are the best. thanks

I somehow suspect Wendell read my threads on TrueNAS community forums. I have a SuperMicro build. I have two nics. I did try to set up bridge. And passthroughs. And it’s all buggy and broken but it works just enough so that if you learn of all the issues you can tip toe your way around those. I finished the build like 5 days ago, and I have my signature on their forum full of issues I encountered with links to relevant posts. To much of the annoyance of their mods, might I add.

@Jimmy_Jones

Жыл бұрын

I'm surprised it came out of beta with the amount of bugs this version has.

@emsicz

Жыл бұрын

@@Jimmy_Jones It feels like they focused most of their QA to make sure the part that's responsible for your data works. That part actually works flawlessly.

This is probably the best guide on this but there's still so much that's confusing tbh. It would have been more clear for a Level0 user like myself if you actually walked through more of the steps instead of just have scroll overlays from the forum post with half-cut images for some steps

17:23 I thought it said *"I added this line to the end of my life"* 🤣

That was an a amazing tutorial... any idea about setting up ZFS on a linux distro without using TrueNAS almost seems like it would be easier

@wayland7150

Жыл бұрын

I think Ubuntu comes with that if you like Ubuntu.

Unfortunately, I've found the mods on TrueNAS forums being rude is their natural state. This isn't a bug, being rude and condescending is aTrueNAS mod feature. Thats why I always look elsewhere and only go there if I absolutely have too. Really like TrueNAS, really dislike how they treat others.. Might be different for enterprise customers; thats the path they've really taken as a company.

Configuring some engagement for the algorithm

A good video overall but its the first video with Wendell where my own professional experience differs from what he is advising users to do. Certain types of data should never be ran over NFS. Specifically SQLite databases will encounter all kinds of bugs and are commonly used in docker. There are lots of other software that is incompatible with NFS also which will cause bugs and because users typically don't configure or install any software within a docker image there is little way most users are going to know about a potential problem until it just starts happening. It is possible to still use NFS with docker but really it should be limited only to data files which are unlikely to cause any issues. I know this undermines Wendell's goal of being able to snapshot his docker applications. I've been trying to solve the same problem myself for a long time and have yet to actually solve the problem.

@affieuk

9 ай бұрын

This makes sense. Look at what type of data you have and then follow the best practices for that. I can't remember what it was but I remember seeing some open source software, that would plug into SQLite db's and replicate them. So personally I'd rather do that.

Thanks for doing this video. And thanks for sharing the frustration with TRUENAS SCALE. It drove me nuts to set the networking between VM and truenas host. They have some serious issues in their feedback processes. Do you think you could use your influence and push on them a little bit? Something seriously needs to change there.

@The123tactics

Жыл бұрын

Even on Truenas core things like VM's are totally broken. Windows VM's are almost impossible to keep stable. Had to move to scale to get stable VM's and there is still stuff like this that i had to do even after that.

@blackrockcity

Жыл бұрын

@@The123tactics use XCP-ng for virtualization. Run truenas core as a VM and pass the hba through to truenas. Learn to tell which Intel NICs are counterfeit and get a real one.

@The123tactics

Жыл бұрын

@@blackrockcity I switched over to truenas scale. Works a lot better. Currently not using a HBA anyway but could passthrough the ssds I have in my pool the same. No issues and working as expected.

@blackrockcity

Жыл бұрын

@@The123tactics I’m testing out scale but haven’t tried docker or VMs yet. It sounds like it’s not there yet, especially regarding networking. Having fought core, I don’t trust truenas to get virtualization right. XCP-ng is solid. I’ve never tried proxmox.

@BGraves

Жыл бұрын

All of this is easy in unRAID...

This is Level 4 tech fixing.

It's 2024 and bridging is *still* broken. Great job, iXsystems!

@Level1Techs Is there anyway to write a script to automate the process of setting up the bridge networking?

Hi, Thanks a lot .. but you said in the beginning of the video you show us how to stop the spinning rust from spinning and by that save engerie .. this i still don't know!?! i really want to lower my truenas server power consumption!

Any chance of getting an explainer on the NFS setup portion for Linux dummies like myself? I don't understand what it is we are trying to do or what mount/umount does in this context.

We need an update using jailmaker!

can you do a video on how to properly migrate from Core to Scale? Specifically how to move Jails (Nextcloud, UniFI, Plex, Tailscale, etc.)

I have 4 nics on my scale server. Can I change this for a vm to be different that the storage instead of a bridge to be able to mount the vm to the storage?

Somewhat new to Truenas, what I don't understand is what is the benefit of setting up these applications through Portainer? When you can just set them up using Truecharts?

Any thoughts on ZeroTier? It seems to work in a similar way, and it can be self hosted, etc. I was able to use a Caddy container in front of my VaultWarden instance to only allow access from my ZeroTier network. Works well, but I always see stuff about TailScale, so I am interested in how they compare. Also, anyone having issues with TrusNas Scale running on a QNap? I can't restart it without it basically locking up from an endless flood of "rc rc0: receive overflow" messages, which force me to have to hard power it down because they just never stop and block all input.

I initially wanted to host TrueNAS and Debian VMs inside Proxmox but now I'll probably host a Debian VM in TrueNAS.

Just spent the entire day stressing over not being able to mount any NFS share. Turns out that TrueNAS Scale (Cobia?) will not export ANY NFS shares if there is an user missing or something like that. I added a missing (I think it was missing) user on the host side and deleted (then recreated ) most of my NFS shares and lo and behold, I can now mount the shares!

is it safe to have your hdds start and stop spining so often? or will it degrade the hhd and make it fail earlier then if its spining all day. and after watching the whole video im kind of confused about the power saving thing mentioned at the start. you didnt speak about it again through out the video

Hey Wendell, for that exactly use case, couldn't you make a case to use proxmox instead of truenas? If your intent is virtualization that would seem like a good start point.

@TheExard3k

Жыл бұрын

You end up with virtualized storage that adds complexity and trouble or basically re-building Proxmox from scratch. TrueNAS with KVM as both storage server and hypervisor is a more elegant and better performing solution while keeping complexity manageable.

@wayland7150

Жыл бұрын

It's the unsolvable problem, TrueNAS or Proxmox. I put TrueNAS inside Proxmox and passed the drive controller to it. It worked and I thought I was a genius. However passing out an iSCSI drive from VM TrueNAS to a Proxmox VM really started to cause a rift in the space time continuum. By the time that VM was serving files it was only running at 30MB/s and it's unreliable. I am going back to two physical servers, Proxmox and TrueNAS.

@blackrockcity

Жыл бұрын

@@wayland7150 as I said in other threads, I’ve never use proxmox but I like XCP-ng. Virtualize truenas core in it. Pass the hba through. Use a real Intel NIC. I never got iSCSI to work in core. Too many bugs. Some said core needs a ton of ram for iSCSI to work. Not sure how much…Way more than 20GB.

I always find it amusing when tech tubers say things like "2x 20TB hard drives, not that much". Here in Canada, those IronWolfs cost $700 each. At $1400 for storage, that's worth more than most people's computers :) There are so many other computer parts I would spend that money on before I would spend that much on disk drives.

@Level1Techs

Жыл бұрын

Good lord! Yeah find the sweet spot for capacity vs cost.

@TheExard3k

Жыл бұрын

20TB is bad $/TB right now because "new" and "biggest". I can get a Toshiba MG08 16TB for 230$ here in Europe which is really the sweet spot for $/TB atm.

@wayland7150

Жыл бұрын

Here in the UK a company is auctioning 10 3TB Hitachi SAS drives. I picked up a set for £80 ($100). That's 8 in the system and 2 spares. That's about 17TB after ZFS has done it's thing. A bit cheaper than C$1400!

The KILL A WATT(tm) points out watt consumed per second ?

Having memory not shared by the host, thus reducing zfs cache capability makes this seem like a workable solution that limits my machine. What about using portainer as a chart in truenas and then running all dockers with NFS. Does that work and solve the network, data/codebase, and reliability issues.

If TrueNAS Scale has terrible hypervisor support, what’s the benefit of Scale over Core? I was thinking of moving to TrueNAS from Unraid, but now I’m thinking I keep one NAS on Unraid with my containers, TrueNAS with a copy of the data and some fast file and block storage, and a Proxmox cluster for my homelabbinf nonsense and VMs.

Thanks for this detailed setup guide Wendell. Thanks to your help I saved a lot of time setting the docker vm up in Scale. I have one question: Why should I use "async" instead of "sync" when setting up the startup auto.mount in fstab?

Why use Scale if you create a VM anyway for Docker containers? Isn’t running Core faster in that case?

I'm a Nub, first time running NAS, VM. @09:39 I ran into that issue when i realized I needed Win Drivers, and couldn't access my SMB's.

I was wondering if I could bounce ideas off of someone. Would you rather setup a config such as this (TrueNAS Scale + VM with docker inside of it) or Proxmox with a TrueNAS Core/Scale VM (with passthrough of an HBA of course). They seem to accomplish the same end result but I'm unsure as to which approach is "best" to manage long term. Thanks!

@blackrockcity

Жыл бұрын

TrueNAS is reliable in some ways and broken in others. If you setup NFS it will probably just work. Use XCP-ng as your hypervisor. Run TrueNAS core in a VM. Pass the HBA through to this VM.

@carlosmunoz_gp

Жыл бұрын

@@blackrockcity TIL about XCP-ng thanks!

@blackrockcity

Жыл бұрын

@@carlosmunoz_gp let me know if you have questions. Be careful to pass the correct pci address for the HBA. The format of that number matters a lot.

Does TrueNAS support DOS/Win95 guest VMs for retro gaming?

Hard to expect a response to a question on an 8 month old video, but here goes. Can you comment on the pros/cons of having the docker vm mount the nfs share vs setting up an nfs based volume and having the container mount it?

@Level1Techs

Жыл бұрын

Depends if you wanna manage containers individually of as a fleet. For homelab cases fleet is easier?

For a home server, I would've just installed tailscale on the host truenas installation. Would've made configuration a lot easier. Probably not the best way though

Honestly, I would use Truenas for the thing that it's extremely good at, and have another machine running Docker. Right now, my homelab is a hodgepodge. Unraid running on a machine that is VERY overkill (Dual socket 6core/12thread Xeons with 128GB of ram), my Proxmox server (Which is overkill, but is severely lacking in local hard drive space) and then a couple of laptops just sitting in my server rack. I'm getting a disk shelf soon and want to make the unraid server Truenas, but JUST for storage.

@TheExard3k

Жыл бұрын

Get TrueNAS Core for that.

@wayland7150

Жыл бұрын

I combined Proxmox and TrueNAS in one machine but I don't recommend it.

@hotstovejer

Жыл бұрын

@@wayland7150 I mean, if you were going to just play with it, sure? But I want to use truenas for HA and storage. If I'm storing my VMs on truenas, why would I want to run it as a VM?

@wayland7150

Жыл бұрын

@@hotstovejer Well that's the point, I don't trust TrueNAS with my VMs but I like how it's a NAS. Proxmox for the VMs. It was OK, but slow NAS as a VM. Probably required some fine tuning, which I'm not prepared to do.

Should probably mention that UEFI is basically kinda sorta broken on TrueNAS Scale for Linux where GRUB doesn't work so you have to basically create your own boot stuff....

What i'd like to do is set up TrueNAS 'apps' to run plex, as well as TDARR to transcode recorded TV/movies, i just recently discovered that TrueNAS Scale can forward hardware decoder/encoder so i can now use my TrueNAS Plex instance as my primary playback server without worrying about weird CPU performance degredation for critical file share services instead of a seperate windows machine(i've recently had issues in linux with the PCIE TV tuners i need for my area for reliable signal). Though i wouldnt be transcoding to H265/AV1 with hardware, as all hardware encoders are very poor at space efficency, especially when going from one codec to another. In my case MPEG2 to H265 or AV1, both are qually bad, often either worse quality, or larger than the original MPEG2 file ~2GB/hour for 1080p, where as CPU is often 1/3rd-1/5th the size of the original for the same quality. I just need to be able to add in a PCIE TV tuner and i'll be set with a single device solution (seperate machines for on site redundancy and off site backup)

is it better to install it on VM or truecharts via truenas scale apps?

I havent had issues with the 'apps' in Truenas Scale, and IIRC it uses docker, i'll have to check when i get home.

@niallthebomb

Жыл бұрын

Have you not experienced the constant snapshot creation? Check your snapshots. I installed Scale and before long I had hundreds of snapshots after using the apps. Admittedly, I didn't spend a lot of time trying to stop them but from some of the research I did, it appears to be a very annoying bug. Curious if anyone else was able to get around this.

@TheExard3k

Жыл бұрын

@@niallthebomb hundreds or thousands of snapshots don't really matter. I have 16000 snapshots on my TrueNAS Core and all is running fine and well. All those tiny subdirectories for docker barely have any data in it anyway, so it's not like actual space that's wasted.

@denvera1g1

Жыл бұрын

@@niallthebomb IT seems like there are a large number of snapshots on my time machine dataset, which doesnt make sense, because the apps/plugins/vms are on a completely different array/pool, and only access my share dataset, though, so far, they are not writing to these datasets.

Is there a way to host the containerization system on bare metal instead of visualizing it so you can use native filesystem calls instead of having to invoke the network subsystem and nfs and all the overhead involved with that? If that's possible then you can also worry less about segmenting memory to the virtual machine or applications and allow for dynamic memory allocation and/or better management of memory on an container by container basis. Also, and this is probably a containerization n00b question, but do containers group themselves into application clusters or when i look at all the containers running do i just see the complete list of containers? - I'm just curious about managing the various containers. I'm used to TrueNAS Core with jails and putting a complete application stack in each jail. What is the purpose of splitting off portions of an application into various containers anyway (like for the example of nextcloud a database container and a web server container)?

@user-eh3pp4pn9e

Жыл бұрын

Yes! I use a docker VM with only Rancher on it to manage containers on the host. I would say it has a steep learning curve, but the UI is beautiful and unrestricted unlike the TrueNAS UI. The containers/info, however, are not integrated with the TrueNAS UI at all, it shows "no applications" on mine, which is currently a good thing IMO because ix-systems... So, the docker mentality is "one process per container" that's why the DB is its own container. Jails are more similar to LXC. Additionally, TrueNAS Scale is using docker, yes, but it's also using k3s (kubernetes) which most people I've heard call it 'docker on space steroids' or some other such nonsense. This is also why the term charts is used rather than compose. There is such a mixup of information on kubernetes/k8s/k3s/so-on, so take care while researching it. P.S. Rancher is for k3s like portainer is for docker.

@wayland7150

Жыл бұрын

I think the lesson from this video is have a separate volume or partition for your own stuff. For instance my PCs have /home mounted from a separate partition in the case of the laptop and a separate drive in the case of the desktop. I can zap the OS and not lose my files. This approach works for VM etc too.

@joshhardin666

Жыл бұрын

@@wayland7150 I understand, but how that's accessed is also important. If i can bypass the network stack, loopback (or the network card), and NFS, things operate much faster and smoother in terms of accessing files on the disk. I'd rather access files directly. Also resource management. if you lock up ram in a vm, it's no longer availible to the system and you have to get that configuration right instead of just letting containers use as much ram as it needs. Otherwise, I might as well create virtual machines for each application which is way heavier and a waste of resources... running containerization inside of a virtual machine seems needlessly compute and memory expensive

@wayland7150

Жыл бұрын

@@joshhardin666 On Proxmox you have LXC (Lexy) which look and work like full Linux VMs but are much lighter. What I've done with Windows VMs in Proxmox is run them as a full VM off a volume on the SSD but have their D: drive as a huge volume off the hard drive array. You get the speed for Windows OS plus the size and separation required for your files. I did a similar thing for NextCloud run as an LXC off SSD with the user files mounted from a hard drive based volume.

Whats better between Zerotier and Tailscale?

I decided to go with Debian 12 and my god... the installation for "the base system" has been going for 1:30h now with no progress being made in the last hour. I double checked to not use the netinstall ISO, but the full DVD ISO. CPU is at 80% (exactly what I allocated). I also manually disabled Sync on the Zvol to no avail. I hope this will finish eventually or I will just switch to Alma.

You can create bridge interfaces from the WebGUI. I did this for my Ubuntu VM running plex so I could mount the host media smb share. Just add the br0 as a second nic to the VM

@Level1Techs

Жыл бұрын

When I did that it broke the web gui. On 5 different installations in the run up to the other vid. Only worked with the dual lan supermicro where you could bridge the other interface

@austinwilson930

Жыл бұрын

@@Level1Techs Wow that's crazy. I believe Scale was in beta stage when I was running a VM with the bridge. Haven't tried since as I've just settle for using the Plex app from TrueCharts. You've bitten me with the ZFS bug and I can't seem to trust my data to anything else. I would love to use Core but I really want to have my Gtx 1650 for plex transcoding in the same box. Scale has some bugs and has hit bumps in the road so far but I really hope they succeed and hash everything out.

@wayland7150

Жыл бұрын

You can do that on Core from the WebGUI, I bridged two 10G ports to create a cheap 10G switch. Same thing on Proxmox and now I have a daisychained 10G network.

@ThEcLoUdBuStEr

Жыл бұрын

@@Level1Techs do you know what to do with hdd activity every 5 seconds on truenas scale? System Dataset Pool is on boot-pool - ssd, but sound from my Toshiba N300 12TB is still on every 5 seconds. I just wanna keep my jellyfin and that's it. Constant sound from the hdd is driving me and my family crazy, server is in another room, but it is very loud, esspecialy at night ~46dB. No one seems to know how to solve this issue. It is probably flushing of ZFS TXGs to the underlying storage media. Is there any solution to stopping it?

When I install debian and it goes to reboot it wont load the grub and brings me to the UEFI Bios shell....any suggestions?

Can someone help with step 2 "Tell the NFS share system to treat the “root” user on the client as root on this system. Map user and Map root should both be set to rot."? I have set Taproot User and group both to room and have also tried nfsdckr but I'm getting access denied when I try to mount /nfsDocker/nfsdckr

Do you even network br0?

Wtf... l just installed truenas 2 days ago... WHERE WERE YOU 2 DAYS AGO!? :(

can someone explain how this tailscale works? I've set this up and get it to work, but the performance drop is HUGE. I suspect the packets are relayed through some other node and not a real P2P.. i'm a noob on networking but the numbers im getting suggested there's throttling somewhere... my NAS is on 200Mbps link and I connected using another broadband at 50 Mbps file transfer stucks at 500Kb to 1Mb

Where do you buy your spinning rust? I tried Amazon for a 16TB drive that was an utter fail. Drive came in a baggy with no protection. Immediate return. I bought same from NewEgg drive came in a sealed box with those plastic inflatable pouches. Unfortunately the drive wasn't packaged properly in the cushioning and sure enough it was a dead clicking drive. Thankfully NewEgg refunded my money -- this was before the Tech Jesus motherboard controversy. Any good seller recommendations appreciated.

@wayland7150

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I would go straight to a company specialising in reselling old server hardware, skip the middle man like Amazon or Newegg. A lot of these companies list on ebay but don't think of it as buying from embay, read the reviews and check out their products. I've got one in the UK who sells old SAS drives 10 at a time.

@geroldmanders9742

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It is actually very common to transport HDD's in just a baggy, without any other form of protection. Much more drives can be transported in one go this way and it is cheaper to replace broken drives than it is to package them properly. What is strange is that not too many drives break during transport this way. Not nearly enough to offset the price of packaging drives and sending much less of them in a container from the factory to the country where they are being sent. More drives get damaged when they are transported by truck/delivery company than by container transport, because packages get seriously mistreated by overworked/underpaid employees unfortunately. No amount of properly hard drive packaging helps with that.

If I get this tail shit working on my machine I’ll owe u a cookie

@grimtagnbag

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You are the shit!!!! My man!! Never heard of this before but yes sir this was my ticket. No more google Remote Desktop feeding the google monsters. I can get into my local network and didn’t have to port forward nothing. My isps nat is the devil 👿 and this gets me in. Ty boss

@grimtagnbag

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This is getting to fun. Tailscale EVERYTHING!!!! My pi4 low power hacking, pi3 Hosting Two Octoprint services to two different printers, portainer to manage those. My phone OMG EVERYTHING. Being able to final get into my network around my ISPs NAT TYTYTYTYTYTY. Years trying to this. Was google remote desktop into my main box to service anything. Now I can ssh to everything. WOW just wow

@grimtagnbag

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Wow I can even add the port to the end and get to each of the octoprints I have running omg tytyty yes yes yes

Ha, the inability to access the host was driving me nuts! I didn't even know what terms to search for. I worked around it by using dual NICs and a physical switch.

Which motherboard was this

Couldn’t find the other video reference dificult to find all have the same title 🤣🤣

If Wendell manages to break the built in Docker then you know it's bad lol. The problem is IX wanted it done in a particular way and from my understanding even people experienced with Kubernetes can't work out why the hell they did it in this way, it's bassakwards. The VM network thing seems to be something IX just "does". Core does exactly the same thing, the VM cant talk to the host without stuffing around with a bridge. I had so many issues with the Docker / Kubernetes implementation in Scale I went to Core with a Plex jail and anything that didn't need to access the NAS went on a VM. Might tinker with this method instead of setting a Debian VM on one of my other systems.

@wayland7150

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I fail to see the point of Scale if Docker does not work. May as well use either Proxmox or Core.

@rebsdioramas

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@@wayland7150 My thoughts as well. Hell even a bog standard Debian install with Docker and ZFS is much better, more work obviously but it'll do what you want. The issue with Scale is Kubernetes, the implementation is stupid and clearly doesn't work but IX refuse to change it or give an option during install to just use vanilla Docker. A lot of people on Reddit and IX forums want vanilla Docker as well so it's not like the demand isn't there. Scale could've easily dominated the homelab, small and medium business sector but they screwed it up going after big business and enterprise. Might've worked, if they didn't usually use custom solutions and not these fairly restrictive prebuilt solutions... Dunno what the hell IX was thinking.

@wayland7150

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@@rebsdioramas There is probably a nice webGUI I don't know about that could be put on a Debian ZFS server that would get you a decent NAS. Webmin perhaps hahaha.

@rebsdioramas

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@@wayland7150 Cockpit works well but it can be a massive pain in the ass to set up correctly on Debian, lots of dependencies needed. It's easier on Ubuntu but... Ubuntu lol. Any RHEL distro it'll work mostly flawlessly on but getting ZFS on RHEL is a hassle lol.

@wayland7150

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@@rebsdioramas It sounds like an opportunity for someone to make a distro like that. I know I'd prefer to get that than roll my own.

Just a note that it looks like you're using scale rather than core here. The video title/description were ambiguous. Scale ftw!

@handspiker1994

Жыл бұрын

Given that nothing else in the title works in Core, I think it's pretty clear. The first 30 seconds of the video also shows Scale documentation and links also say "TrueNAS Scale". Blame IX systems for their shitty branding.

@Emerald13

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@@handspiker1994 core can run virtual machines just fine

@wayland7150

Жыл бұрын

@@Emerald13 They break after a few goes.

I almost used the USB-C plug on my Meshify 2XL today... but the first cable I picked up had USB A on the other end instead. oh well...

NFS seems a safer way to do this than iSCSI.