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Virtualise TrueNAS to Save Space & Power! SMB & NFS
Virtualise TrueNAS to Save Space & Power! SMB & NFS Guide with HBA!
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“Jim’s Garage”
Virtualising TrueNAS is a great idea if you’re looking to consolidate space and save power. In this video I walk you through how to install the HBA, create the TrueNAS VM, and deploy SMB and NFS shares.
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Please let me clarify what "IT-Mode" is:
"IT" in this case stands for "initiator target". In this mode evey disc is presented individually to the host.
HBAs usually come in "IR" Mode, which is what ever Raid-Modes your HBA supports.
amazing work on the video, ty
Hey Jim, just a few notes.
If you disable pre-enroll keys under the UEFI settings for the virtual machine, you don't need to go through the whole rigmarole with disabling secure boot in the bios.
It's also generally not necessary to change the boot order since the virtual machine disc is blank at the time of first boot.
You can also just remove the disk image from the DVD drive rather than deleting the entire device from the hardware configuration. This means you don't have to fully shut down the vm.
Should the steps be the same if setting up Scale vs Core?
Thanks for the video and demo, have a great day
Hay Jim another fantastic video
Thank you for your video. It might just come in handy. I did find a IBM rebranded LSI SAS3084E-R and I think an even better LSI SAS9217-8i in my junk box. I use Proxmox daily for various vm's. Also have a dedicated linux box that runs my email server. Time consolidation of email server and get truenas virtualised. Just happen to have an X99 board 128GB of RAM and an E5 2680 v4.
Interesting setup. I've always run my file server on bare metal. Was tempted to try something like this when I built a new one this past year, but opted not to. But now I'm debating a separate Proxmox build for VMs 🤔
have not tested this myself but you might not need to disable secure boot in the UEFI if you untick "pre-enroll keys" in the system tab when creating the VM
I am in the process of deploying a simple SMB server and am following apalard's approach via LXC container
Hi. A quick notice, At 19.27 you left the option rombar enabled. No reason for that. It isnt a gpu to load a rom file for example. No point leaving it checked.
In case anyone is interested: these hba consume a lot of power, mine used 10W in idle with no HDD connected and got very hot. Besides getting hot it has no temperature sensor so there was no way for me to know, if the zip-tied fan on it was still working.
Because of all that I ended up with a second ZFS inside proxmox and created an SMB via a Copilot LXC.
Any disadvantage to passing through the disk instead of the controller? Besides losing smart data (I think)
Protip: The LSI cards use i and e as the last letter to indicate internal vs. external ports.
Great video
Such a quandary… Proxmox with a TrueNAS Core VM, or just run TrueNAS Scale, which has quite a bit of virtualization functionality and some nice docker applications made easy. I generally lean toward Proxmox but I would probably go with TrueNAS Scale in this particular situation. I also think TrueNAS Core is going to be sunsetted in the next year or two.
TrueNAS is not designed to be modified/customised by end user – whatever you want to tune, it will NOT survive next upgrade.
I would really reconsider this decision.
Different issue is when you have full bare metal spare – then, probably, TrueNAS is the system of choice.
But not on PVE, where 95% of OS things are done already.
TrueNAS rabbit hole is now wide open 🙂 Snapshots, replication, 3-2-1 backup 🙂
I have an old RAID card in my workstation that goes 90C. I fastened a small fan with fishing cord to the heatsink to get the temps under control. Great video anyways
Timely video, thanks very helpful
I use a lxc container with just casaos (a docker managment docker container) that has samba shares. What do you think?