@@RaidOwl hi is there a way to do PCI passthrough (can i passthrough a nic?) not limited to gpu passthrough? and also is truenas scale open to anyone for use or is it more like like esxi style where you need a product key for the higher functions? and would it install on regular desktop boards? or is this server family only...?
@@ozb2006 Hi, OZ B. Just wanted to weigh in with some general advise. On the hardware side of things. It'll probably run on most configurations. The question is if you actually want to do this. For a test setup I'd say go ahead. For a production server I'd say don't! For the simple reason of reliability and data integrity. Don't forget TrueNAS ONLY supports ZFS! Which is where ECC RAM is highly recommended..
@@Nemesis-pe7mw hi thanks for answering me so i have a dell poweradge t610 it's a 8 core 16 threads, 120gb of ecc mem, with 2 g nics, perc h310, IT mode, and a 9 channel expander card, the idea is to run pfsense, as my main router firewall, and a copy of an "imprisoned" (firewalled and blocked from the internet but not local network) windows 10 or 11 so i can run all the adobe products for video editing. i was asking about running scale on a desktop due to the facts i have a regular desktop with similar spects to my server and i wanted to have it on standby as a backup system to the server with an identical config, in case the server went down... but it looks like my plans are out of reach for the moment the backup machine is not going to happen for now, i can't get the h310 controller to work with this board to work, and so far as to my main server well my 20 1TB disks, most of them have a bunch of errors so scale does want to create a VD partition, so this stuff would have to wait for s minute until we'll have some money to buy a few hard drives.
This is undoubtedly the best 30 min I spend researching on TrueNAS Scale. Appreciate the effort put into creating such a beautiful video. Felt like leaving a comment since its very hard to find reliable content based on a newly released system. I'm glad you included True charts in this video. Love to see more content on installing and configuring apps like Jellyfin, Vaultwarden, Nextcloud and so on. Thanks again for keeping us updated.
This video was helpful in deciding whether to stay with Proxmox or move over the TrueNas Scale to function as a primary hypervisor. I'm new to the hypervisor world and just a hobbyist, not an IT pro. I have struggled in certain areas with Proxmox and the GUI for TrueNas is appealing. Now that I know I can run VMs and Docker as I learn, I think Scale is the right solution. I appreciate the intro!
Even though this video is 2yrs old, within 3 mins of following your steps, I got the "basic" information for setting up a simple NFS I couldn't f'ng get from 8 previous TrueNAS videos I found first. Your direction is "accurate" and "concise." :-) Good schitt, guy!!! *Thumbs Up*
Thanks for this video - exactly what I was looking for as I was wanting to move from a ProxMox + TrueNAS Core setup to a TrueNAS Scale only setup. Followed along and had mine up and running in no time. Great work!
Intro is worth a giggle. Thanks for the shoutout as well, great intro to the system and glad you showed installing things without changing too many variables the first time (and a *surprise picachu* face afterwards) :-D Looking forward to future content!
You can't use docker-compose, because Scale doesn't use docker. It uses Kubenetes, which can create containers based on docker images, but is quite different. The docker-compose equivalent for kubenetes is helm charts, which is what the TrueCharts catalog uses.
This explained a LOT for a first-time NASer. Thank you! Was just handed a QNAP TS-851 and have no idea what to do with it but I think upgrading ram to 8gb and going TrueNAS Scale is the way forward.
This was truly a great video. I was looking for a VM/NAS solution and starting to look more on Truenas. This video gave me so much information + the important part of the boot device disk space is "wasted" . Again thanks for a great Video.
Every time I try something different and want to go back to TNS, I come back to this video as it is an excellent reference guide! That and Lawrence's video about fixing the networking issues.
Starting at 31:22 your hands come down in sync with your video in the corner. Cheezy little detail i know but i chuckled when i saw it. Thanks for the great video.
Thank you so much for this informative video. Now this is how tech videos should be made. I felt like I spent 32min wisely. Nice accurate information, presented in a way that kept me interested from beginning to the end.😄
truenas scale is the best thing i have found for free software. the most recent update in december 2022 has made things alot better. I love it that much i have 2 truenas systems in my house
Nearly without a hitch, I setup my first TrueNAS SCALE server using an ASUS Gigabyte Vision D MB, 5900X, 1 TB 980 Pro M.2 (boot) and 4 x 2TB SN850X M.2 drives in an Asus Hyper M.2 Gen 4 card. Thanks to your vid, it worked flawlessly. I'm going to add a better NIC soon, but for now this is perfect. I did have one issue with a 5600G which does not allow enough free PCIe lanes and only 3 of the 4 M.2 sticks were showing up and I couldn't bifurcate the x16 slot into true 4x4x4x4, but swapping out with my 5900X solved that issue. I had to use a small GPU card in the 3rd slot, and I'm not sure if the 2nd slot can take anything without affecting the x16 slot. I am quite surpsied that TrueNAS setup detected all my hardware (aside from my wifi card). Just amazing. I almost went for the Unraid, but not after reading about Btrfs performance issues. I was intrigued by its VM/container support but that's where SCALE now helps. I have some workloads that will run on the server processing files, so this should SCREAM.
This actually fixed my problem getting TrueCharts to work lol. Fantastic video. Nice to watch and learn together. I migrated from core to scale and used 2 days to de-encrypt my storage and have just had one headache after the other making things work again. Side note, I'm not THAT fast at learning..
Just come across this video, use TN Scale for little while now, got tons of stuff running on it, passing through USB devices to Home Assistant and using multiple VLANs with Docker - life is great :)
I scored an amazing deal on a Dell Precision T5610 with dual Xeon E5 2650V2 processors and 16gb ECC memory! For a total of 70 bucks. The sata controller on the motherboard was dead, but a simple add in pcie raid card and it runs no problem! TrueNAS on this is truely amazing!
@@RaidOwl yeah no joke. The moment I fixed it the seller actually before hand asked me to let him know if my tinkering does fix it. After I made it work and let him know. He begged for it back, as he knew its value. But that is unfair to me as I bought it fair and square and he wanted it back for the same amount of money. Lol 😆
@@thorium9190: Seller made an expensive mistake that he could’ve investigated and fixed himself but didn’t. That’s his problem - not yours. A sale is a sale. Had you discovered more faults then asked for a refund, he’d have laughed in your face. Well done for sticking to your guns. It sounds like the T5610 has a competent, capable owner at last.
I finally see the light! I was wondering for so long why people use proxmox and TrueNAS. Seemed a bit like overkill at first but now that I see how a typical home lab is set up and ran it makes a lot more sense. Just trying to decide if I should virtualize trueness or just run it bare metal.
Good Job on the Video, I have actually installed it on a host to test it out. So far it's sweet. I am trying to figure out how to cluster it with other TrueNAS Scale hosts. This would be a perfect solution for me. Thanks for your hard work sir!
great overview, thank you. finally getting around to repurposing a 1u server to this. probably already mentioned but you can run docker-compose as a container to run compose files via the create docker container UI so pretty sweet. anyway thanks again!
Because you know what you're doing, it makes Scale far more appealing 👍 I've been using Core for a few years now, my only sadness is having learnt a bit of FreeBSD to use Core!
Probably a billion videos out there but I only seem to be able to learn from yours so if we could see a setup in-depth with the Plex app and using gpu transcoding with it that would cool :)
I want to thank you for one item you brought up in your video. I have a problem with the console from TrueNas Scale because it is almost half the size it should be and you brought up using your Remote Desktop to view your VM's and that worked GREAT... I have been trying to fix this problem of the console being too small and your quick response was PREFECT and now I can access the Virtual Machines like I want to.
Hello and thank you for any help getting this setup, I followed your instructions but after doing so I am unable to bring up the shared file login windows were it ask me for the user name and password, When I type in the ip address it brings up a login window but it's asking for the root password. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Thank you so much
The way I understand it is if you plan to build-up (or build-out) a primary TrueNAS Scale *storage machine* to other server storage nodes, then you start with TrueNAS Scale. Please, would someone correct me if I state that when you build-out multiple storage servers, they don’t need to be the exact same model/generation, or exactly similar specs (aside from ECC RAM, etc.), to create a cluster - or even be from the *same manufacturer*? I’m planning on loading the primary TrueNAS Scale installation onto an old HP server first, then building-out to different model HP servers - then out to Dell servers and some SuperMicro storage arrays. (Yes, it’s going to be a real mongrel cluster) Obviously, I’m keen to get the concept correct before beginning (!). If you do have a helpful comment, it’d be very welcome.
Hi @OwlRaid. In a previous Video, you configured part of the boot drive (120GB) for installation(32GiB) and configured the rest of the same drive for storage(88Gib). Why did you not do the same in this Video?
Love your videos. Found your channel about a month and a half ago. I donated to your recent stream for the first time and I'll probably sub to your Patreon once I get my paycheck. Also love your humor and the little skits at the beginning of some of your videos.
Oddly on my screen after posting that comment my channel name isn't even showing up in the comment. Can anyone see my channel name on this comment? it should say "Veckson". Never seen that before lmao
Thanks for doing this walk-through! I was able to get my first install of TrueNAS Scale up and running with a working SMB share! Could you do an update for the current version of TrueNAS Scale? There were a couple of data entries following along with you that were in completely different areas but I was able to figure it out.
I'm adding this to my Ventoy stick & throwing an old A4 with 8 gig ram on the workbench as we speak. Excellent Video, Very Inspirational. No this is not a Paid Advertisement LOL
i absolutely loved the video but after spending a bit of time with scale I'd say I'm extremely dissapointed with its implementation, the bugs, and most importantly the fact that you can't install most of the containers that you could through portainer or unraid. The OS is buggy at times and the VMs for me are buggy. they sometimes refuse to turn on, requiring a restart from the OS. I've spent so much time trying to get reverse proxies to work there or get some containers to even launch (such as duck DNS) and all that time and effort was for nothing. I would highly recommend not switching to this from truenas core if you thought you could finally install docker containers without hassles through the OS itself. It's buggy, has compatability issues (something to do with it running K3S) and overall still required me to install portainer through a VM. Which i would say is the recommended way of doing docker TBH. just would've been nice if things were more polished and not as hacky or unusable. In conclusion if all you want to do is ZFS and drive backup then this like core will work just as well (although i did also have issues with the email authentication for SMB settings). Overall i personally would not recommend this and instead would recommend truenas core instead or another NAS software. Leave this one until it's more polished and the docker issues are ironed out eventually (if ever). P.S. Honestly to put it shortly i was expecting so much more than what was given. at least something as big as unraid... but alas
Great video! I just installed TrueNAS scale hoping to move away from my QNAP but have hit a few walls. Would love to see a video on Sonarr for Scale. Not much out there atm. My main 2 issues have been not being able to see the SMB share (so cant add/import shows) and when you hit update it errors saying user doesn't have permission to do that. Liked and subscibed hoping for more great Scale content.
Where did your video go that shows how to use the remaining space on your install drave? I decided to give this a shot again: you had a video where I could use the remaining space on my 480gig M.2 drive that I am installing TNas on...
Question. Just set up an old PC, Intel quick sync, windows 10, with Plex. It sits in the other room and works. It’s connected through windows file sharing. Why use a NAS os? I’m middle age but didn’t grow up with computers so I’ve never used Linux or command prompts. I build my gaming pc’s but it’s simple putting pieces together. Making a home made NAS sounds kinda fun. Watching your videos this week and all this seems like a fun (and maybe frustrating) project. But, again… what’s the purpose of a home server when file sharing works. (And in my case just a plex server)
I'm using a few cheap parts and my old gaming PC case for a NAS, since with all the removable parts mounted it can fit 6 HDDs, plus 3 more 5.25' bays if I need more space. I installed TrueNAS Scale on a really old 2.5' 80gb drive I had lying around, for testing and just because i don't really have any other use for that drive. I heard that you can backup the configs and replace the system drive easily, so might as well just use that old drive until it dies. I haven't added my other HDDs because...well.....I forgot to buy more SATA cables. One thing I wanna try is keep the old optical drive that is still on that case. How does one go about adding an optical drive to TrueNAS? cause it would really come in handy. I still use it often to rip CDs and whatnot.
Great video. One of the reasons I switched was the ease with which you did the GPU passthrough, but it seems like it only works that way on TV or youtube video. The device shows up in the Isolated GPU and can be selected, but when you go to the device to add it, it throws an error. My GPU is in the IOMMU 0 group and it is the only thing in the group, however it does not show up as a PCI device if you try to add it to the VM utilizing the VM's Devices screen. The weird thing is the iGPU can be passed through without issue so I'm not sure if this is a bug, or if there is something different that needs to be done beyond what you did.
Thank you for all your videos. Quick questions... Where does applications get installed to? Storage pool drives? Also, is OS drive used for anything other than to run the OS itself? Thank you.
Found your videos which I really enjoy watching. Tried to follow along with how you have done it but they seem to have changed how the configuration is done which was a real head bender for a Truenas Scale newbie trying to setup v24.04.1.1. unless I'm doing something completely wrong it needs the SMB user to be setup 1st.
I am enjoying your TrueNas Scale videos and please continue with them. I am setting up an old Dell T110 II as a TrueNas Scale server and watching your videos I see in this build you are using a WD Ultrastar 12TB SATA drive, is this attached to a HBA controller or just the sata ports on the motherboard. I am getting a HBA 310 in IT mode and was thinking of installing WD Enterprise 6TB SATA drives in this build, or do I need to run SAS drives with the HBA so there is no problems?? I have a 3-4 enterprise drives I would like to use and not want to go out and buy some SAS drives if it is not needed / required?
Ok im new to TN and scale is maybe what i been waiting for. I have a Unraid nas. But with TN Scale to create a pool, do you still need to have all the HD the same size and model or certain number of drive to work with scale? Ty again for the video.
Excellent Video and No boring!!! :) do have a question though, assuming that you have a beefy server/workstation(2cpus, 96gbRAM, Various Nics...) is TrueNas S, able to pick up a couple of Windows 2019 Server virtual machines + Linux at the same time?
I very recently uninstalled Truenas and also ditched OMV. The dealbreaker for me was Plex is taking way too long to update. I'm still interested in NAS solutions though but just on an experimental basis for now.
Hey, one doubt, so after the installation, in the console screen it shows to choose from (1-10), so you leave the screen (this system) as it is and keep it on for 24*7 ? after configuring it from another machine, what I mean to ask is, the configuration will be done via the UI from a different machine but the machine where the TRUE NAS is installed and booting, that, will remain in this console mode for ever (as long as the server is up and running) and in case if I plug the monitor in this TRUE NAS (OS) I will see the same console screen which is asking us to choose any digit from (1-10) ? please clarify
Enjoyed the intro 😁 I've been looking at scale, but I think I might just stick with OMV, I use a 6th gen I5 with 3 drvs, so I do like the JBOD thing. But the thing I like best about OMV is using portainer and stacks, it's so easy, also OMV has a good KVM plugin for VMS.
@@kishan210790 Got to admit I don't, but I have a folder for all my containers and a docker txt file with all my docker stacks. I back up my media and important stuff via Syncthing to a old NUC, and then syncthing that to another NUC at my Son's via Tailscale. Seems fairly robust (touch wood). So you can either Rsync the main drive or Syncthing and there are a number of plugins in OMV itself that probably do what you want.
I cannot for the life of me get TrueNas Scale; running an AMD Ryzen 3 2200g 16gig ram; to show a Display when I am trying to setup a VM. When I Boot the Machine & Click "Display" to show the VM Post & boot the ISO, something Flashes in the Middle of the screen but disappears Instantly.... System resources show something is going on as resources are being used, but I cannot see anything the VM is doing when trying to access the server from my MacMini in Safari.... I cannot find anything or anyone having this issue....
I'm excited about this release too but i have some questions ... What if I already have TrueNAS core installed and want to go for TrueNAS Scale but don't want to reformat current drive and use them ? Will it work? Will I lose stuffs configs, pool, etc. I'm on a simple stripe disk config, what are the real risks ?
Tom Lawrence has an excellent video on this if you want to check it out: ruclips.net/video/AFiQXJ-i0s0/видео.html Basically, yes you can but definitely make sure you have a backup before migrating.
Great video, found it very helpful, I'm running Proxmox and then Scale as a VM. I should work out if I want to take the leap to pure Scale but my only concern is Windows VM's and how they perform.
I have just gone through this process and found some 'got-cha's' (1) Do not have spaces in the Pool name. There is a bug in the VM creation process that does not parse spaces in the path causing it to fail. (2) I had to place the installer iso into the parent directory of the pool and change ownership to user libvirt-qemu for the installer process to be able to read the iso file. It made no difference if I copied the iso onto the nas via smb share or used the web interface to upload the iso. this can be done via the console using chown command.
Have you done any TrueNas videos on configuring a 2.5gb NIC, I have a 2.5 TRENDnet 2.5GBase-T PCIe Network Adapter, TEG-25GECTX and when I install TrueNas Scale it only sees this card as a 1gb NIC. I know how to update nic drivers in Windows but I have no idea how to update nic drivers in TrueNas Scale? Just thought there might be others with the same problem. Sorry for all the questions today. Thanks Jim
Really great summary!! Ive just recently switched from core to scale. Can you do a tutorial on how to install a nextcloud server and tunnel it with cloudflare? Ive used your tunnel tutorial on the core version, but scale seems to be very different! Im having some trouble understanding the new docker method, would like to see another great summary on this =]
Hello, - what is the best practice (settings in TrueNAS scale) for disks power management? - what is the best practice (settings in TrueNAS scale) for creating a storage pool, related to data,cache/log drives allocation? and how much having cache/log drives influence the transfer speed? - in case of TrueNAS fail (computer not disks), after reinstalling the old disks on a new machine it is possible to recreate/import the old storage pool? Thanks in advance and Keep up the great work! Lucian
Sorry to say, but they changed how to install Truecharts. You'll have to look at their web page for installing it. If you want to add trains to Truecharts. You can go to Manage Catalogs then click the three dots on the right of the catalog you want add trains to. Then click edit, then go to Preferred Trains drop down you will then be provided with all available trains, those installed trains will have check marks. To add trains just set check mark then save. You will have to go back to Available Applications and Refresh All to complete.
FYI, you shouldn’t have set “8 threads” in the VM settings. That’s a threads-per-core value. Not total-threads value. So setting 2 threads per core would equal 8 total threads. What you entered (1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads) is equal to 32 threads. Not the 8 threads you’re going for
thats true, i learned that the last days the hard way. never saw a windows installation took a whole night with 100% cpu usage on the host cpu xD (i5 3330) lol. it emulated more threads than it had
At the beginning of the video you talked about the possibility of running KVM, LXV containers, and Docker apps on TNS. Are LXC containers supported out of the box? I did not think they were. Have you set that up behind the scenes or something, or is this a feature they are planning on adding? The ability to run full Linux containers is one of the big benefits I see to Proxmox over TNS.
hi i love your channel, when you made this video, i was able to follow along and setup shares, and a 8 months ago my server died, and 2 months ago i finally got a new one going and decided to install version 8 but can't set things up, the have changed the interface can you make an updated video for this?????????
I recently got hit with Deadbolt on my Asustor; attack vector was the ADM update process. I want to start my own HomeLab and ditch the Asustor NAS, and I am looking at this software. Obviously recommended, but things like VPN and (maybe) NginX Proxy Server easy to set up here as well (I am guessing through Docker)?
Love this! The intro had us buckling over in laughter. Keep up the great work!
Haha I told y’all I was HYPE
@@RaidOwl You were not lying!
@@RaidOwl hi is there a way to do PCI passthrough (can i passthrough a nic?) not limited to gpu passthrough? and also is truenas scale open to anyone for use or is it more like like esxi style where you need a product key for the higher functions?
and would it install on regular desktop boards? or is this server family only...?
@@ozb2006 Hi, OZ B. Just wanted to weigh in with some general advise. On the hardware side of things.
It'll probably run on most configurations. The question is if you actually want to do this. For a test setup I'd say go ahead. For a production server I'd say don't! For the simple reason of reliability and data integrity.
Don't forget TrueNAS ONLY supports ZFS! Which is where ECC RAM is highly recommended..
@@Nemesis-pe7mw
hi thanks for answering me
so i have a dell poweradge t610 it's a 8 core 16 threads, 120gb of ecc mem, with 2 g nics, perc h310, IT mode, and a 9 channel expander card, the idea is to run pfsense, as my main router firewall, and a copy of an "imprisoned" (firewalled and blocked from the internet but not local network) windows 10 or 11 so i can run all the adobe products for video editing.
i was asking about running scale on a desktop due to the facts i have a regular desktop with similar spects to my server and i wanted to have it on standby as a backup system to the server with an identical config, in case the server went down...
but it looks like my plans are out of reach for the moment the backup machine is not going to happen for now, i can't get the h310 controller to work with this board to work, and so far as to my main server well my 20 1TB disks, most of them have a bunch of errors so scale does want to create a VD partition, so this stuff would have to wait for s minute until we'll have some money to buy a few hard drives.
This is undoubtedly the best 30 min I spend researching on TrueNAS Scale. Appreciate the effort put into creating such a beautiful video. Felt like leaving a comment since its very hard to find reliable content based on a newly released system. I'm glad you included True charts in this video. Love to see more content on installing and configuring apps like Jellyfin, Vaultwarden, Nextcloud and so on.
Thanks again for keeping us updated.
I still can't believe the effort that is put into these videos. I absolutely love it, and the amount of help/insight these videos give are tremendous.
Thank you so much for the kind words!
This video was helpful in deciding whether to stay with Proxmox or move over the TrueNas Scale to function as a primary hypervisor. I'm new to the hypervisor world and just a hobbyist, not an IT pro. I have struggled in certain areas with Proxmox and the GUI for TrueNas is appealing. Now that I know I can run VMs and Docker as I learn, I think Scale is the right solution. I appreciate the intro!
Even though this video is 2yrs old, within 3 mins of following your steps, I got the "basic" information for setting up a simple NFS I couldn't f'ng get from 8 previous TrueNAS videos I found first.
Your direction is "accurate" and "concise." :-)
Good schitt, guy!!! *Thumbs Up*
How fortunate this came out right as I started looking into Scale! This is going to be my reference as I set it up sometime this week.
Thanks for this video - exactly what I was looking for as I was wanting to move from a ProxMox + TrueNAS Core setup to a TrueNAS Scale only setup. Followed along and had mine up and running in no time. Great work!
Intro is worth a giggle.
Thanks for the shoutout as well, great intro to the system and glad you showed installing things without changing too many variables the first time (and a *surprise picachu* face afterwards) :-D
Looking forward to future content!
You can't use docker-compose, because Scale doesn't use docker. It uses Kubenetes, which can create containers based on docker images, but is quite different. The docker-compose equivalent for kubenetes is helm charts, which is what the TrueCharts catalog uses.
Does now hahaha
Very helpful video. Used it to get me started making my first nas setup.
This explained a LOT for a first-time NASer. Thank you! Was just handed a QNAP TS-851 and have no idea what to do with it but I think upgrading ram to 8gb and going TrueNAS Scale is the way forward.
Thanks for the walkthrough on the installation. My next NAS is now up and running totally sourced from the eWaste pile.
This was truly a great video. I was looking for a VM/NAS solution and starting to look more on Truenas. This video gave me so much information + the important part of the boot device disk space is "wasted" . Again thanks for a great Video.
Every time I try something different and want to go back to TNS, I come back to this video as it is an excellent reference guide! That and Lawrence's video about fixing the networking issues.
Great video! That intro was GOLD. Everyone at iX thanks you for your support!
Starting at 31:22 your hands come down in sync with your video in the corner. Cheezy little detail i know but i chuckled when i saw it. Thanks for the great video.
Thank you so much for this informative video. Now this is how tech videos should be made. I felt like I spent 32min wisely. Nice accurate information, presented in a way that kept me interested from beginning to the end.😄
Was trying to figure out what to do with my R710 I was given and this is it. Thanks for this video. Very intuitive.
Don't know why, but I've followed a few videos and they never worked. Just followed you and 100% perfect. Thank you so much!
This video intro is timeless. Feels like the first time every time I watch this video.
May take a look into this once I get my behemoth built, but for the time-being it will be just a pipe dream. Great video as always.
truenas scale is the best thing i have found for free software. the most recent update in december 2022 has made things alot better. I love it that much i have 2 truenas systems in my house
Nearly without a hitch, I setup my first TrueNAS SCALE server using an ASUS Gigabyte Vision D MB, 5900X, 1 TB 980 Pro M.2 (boot) and 4 x 2TB SN850X M.2 drives in an Asus Hyper M.2 Gen 4 card. Thanks to your vid, it worked flawlessly. I'm going to add a better NIC soon, but for now this is perfect. I did have one issue with a 5600G which does not allow enough free PCIe lanes and only 3 of the 4 M.2 sticks were showing up and I couldn't bifurcate the x16 slot into true 4x4x4x4, but swapping out with my 5900X solved that issue. I had to use a small GPU card in the 3rd slot, and I'm not sure if the 2nd slot can take anything without affecting the x16 slot. I am quite surpsied that TrueNAS setup detected all my hardware (aside from my wifi card). Just amazing. I almost went for the Unraid, but not after reading about Btrfs performance issues. I was intrigued by its VM/container support but that's where SCALE now helps. I have some workloads that will run on the server processing files, so this should SCREAM.
This actually fixed my problem getting TrueCharts to work lol. Fantastic video. Nice to watch and learn together. I migrated from core to scale and used 2 days to de-encrypt my storage and have just had one headache after the other making things work again. Side note, I'm not THAT fast at learning..
I gotta say man, this is a great video, probably the best step by step guide there is
Really appreciate this video. Got me up and running in MINUTES. Thanks again!
Scale has potential but still has a lot of growing up to do. Especially where the kubernetes debacle is concerned. Love your videos
Not ready to be a Proxmox replacement, but I like the direction they're going in.
I agree
Just come across this video, use TN Scale for little while now, got tons of stuff running on it, passing through USB devices to Home Assistant and using multiple VLANs with Docker - life is great :)
Extremely helpful! Thank you!
I scored an amazing deal on a Dell Precision T5610 with dual Xeon E5 2650V2 processors and 16gb ECC memory! For a total of 70 bucks. The sata controller on the motherboard was dead, but a simple add in pcie raid card and it runs no problem! TrueNAS on this is truely amazing!
$70?? 😳😳😳
@@RaidOwl yeah no joke. The moment I fixed it the seller actually before hand asked me to let him know if my tinkering does fix it. After I made it work and let him know. He begged for it back, as he knew its value. But that is unfair to me as I bought it fair and square and he wanted it back for the same amount of money. Lol 😆
@@thorium9190 Yeah...hell naw you are 100% right to keep that. Awesome score!
@@thorium9190: Seller made an expensive mistake that he could’ve investigated and fixed himself but didn’t. That’s his problem - not yours. A sale is a sale. Had you discovered more faults then asked for a refund, he’d have laughed in your face.
Well done for sticking to your guns. It sounds like the T5610 has a competent, capable owner at last.
I finally see the light! I was wondering for so long why people use proxmox and TrueNAS. Seemed a bit like overkill at first but now that I see how a typical home lab is set up and ran it makes a lot more sense. Just trying to decide if I should virtualize trueness or just run it bare metal.
Good Job on the Video, I have actually installed it on a host to test it out. So far it's sweet. I am trying to figure out how to cluster it with other TrueNAS Scale hosts. This would be a perfect solution for me. Thanks for your hard work sir!
great overview, thank you. finally getting around to repurposing a 1u server to this. probably already mentioned but you can run docker-compose as a container to run compose files via the create docker container UI so pretty sweet. anyway thanks again!
Because you know what you're doing, it makes Scale far more appealing 👍 I've been using Core for a few years now, my only sadness is having learnt a bit of FreeBSD to use Core!
Much appreciated, I'm all setup and ready to go now. Thanks!
Great video! The most important thing in TrueNAS Scale is.. Linux as the kernel. That opens up the door for everything!
Probably a billion videos out there but I only seem to be able to learn from yours so if we could see a setup in-depth with the Plex app and using gpu transcoding with it that would cool :)
I agree that a video on GPU passthrough for the Plex app would be great.
I want to thank you for one item you brought up in your video. I have a problem with the console from TrueNas Scale because it is almost half the size it should be and you brought up using your Remote Desktop to view your VM's and that worked GREAT... I have been trying to fix this problem of the console being too small and your quick response was PREFECT and now I can access the Virtual Machines like I want to.
Hello and thank you for any help getting this setup, I followed your instructions but after doing so I am unable to bring up the shared file login windows were it ask me for the user name and password, When I type in the ip address it brings up a login window but it's asking for the root password. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Thank you so much
What a legend! Very useful thanks
Great presentation of an awesome system. I tried TrueNAS Core, which is great, but this is astonishing.
Core & scale are made for different uses. For VMs you use Truenas Scale but for storage I would use Truenas Core
The way I understand it is if you plan to build-up (or build-out) a primary TrueNAS Scale *storage machine* to other server storage nodes, then you start with TrueNAS Scale.
Please, would someone correct me if I state that when you build-out multiple storage servers, they don’t need to be the exact same model/generation, or exactly similar specs (aside from ECC RAM, etc.), to create a cluster - or even be from the *same manufacturer*?
I’m planning on loading the primary TrueNAS Scale installation onto an old HP server first, then building-out to different model HP servers - then out to Dell servers and some SuperMicro storage arrays. (Yes, it’s going to be a real mongrel cluster)
Obviously, I’m keen to get the concept correct before beginning (!). If you do have a helpful comment, it’d be very welcome.
Thank you for video. You explain the Truenas Scales very well.
i have watched this maybe 10 times this is the best guide ever
Hi @OwlRaid. In a previous Video, you configured part of the boot drive (120GB) for installation(32GiB) and configured the rest of the same drive for storage(88Gib). Why did you not do the same in this Video?
Love your videos. Found your channel about a month and a half ago. I donated to your recent stream for the first time and I'll probably sub to your Patreon once I get my paycheck. Also love your humor and the little skits at the beginning of some of your videos.
Oddly on my screen after posting that comment my channel name isn't even showing up in the comment. Can anyone see my channel name on this comment? it should say "Veckson". Never seen that before lmao
I'm a TrueNAS Core noob and considered going to UnRAID.... Would love to see how to convert from Core to Scale, also how Scale compares to UnRAID???
I had just struggled through most of setting up TrueNAS Core and decided to wipe my boot drive and restart with Scale after seeing this.
Thanks for doing this walk-through! I was able to get my first install of TrueNAS Scale up and running with a working SMB share! Could you do an update for the current version of TrueNAS Scale? There were a couple of data entries following along with you that were in completely different areas but I was able to figure it out.
I'm just learning about TrueNas this video is very helpful love good job
Best Truescale Video to date !
Thanks for the demo and info, have a great day
Love your content brother.......Love from Pakistan......Keep up th egood work and keep being original.........Just lovely..........Lovely!!!!!
Man all the good tech tubers live in the chicago timezone. Central as we know it here. You HH, Jeff Geerling. I feel like im in good company lol.
Instant sub just because of the intro and the new shirt! The badass beard is just icing the cake.
I appreciate that my man
I'm adding this to my Ventoy stick & throwing an old A4 with 8 gig ram on the workbench as we speak. Excellent Video, Very Inspirational. No this is not a Paid Advertisement LOL
I love all yours videos. The best, thanks for your work.
i absolutely loved the video but after spending a bit of time with scale I'd say I'm extremely dissapointed with its implementation, the bugs, and most importantly the fact that you can't install most of the containers that you could through portainer or unraid. The OS is buggy at times and the VMs for me are buggy. they sometimes refuse to turn on, requiring a restart from the OS. I've spent so much time trying to get reverse proxies to work there or get some containers to even launch (such as duck DNS) and all that time and effort was for nothing. I would highly recommend not switching to this from truenas core if you thought you could finally install docker containers without hassles through the OS itself. It's buggy, has compatability issues (something to do with it running K3S) and overall still required me to install portainer through a VM. Which i would say is the recommended way of doing docker TBH. just would've been nice if things were more polished and not as hacky or unusable.
In conclusion if all you want to do is ZFS and drive backup then this like core will work just as well (although i did also have issues with the email authentication for SMB settings). Overall i personally would not recommend this and instead would recommend truenas core instead or another NAS software. Leave this one until it's more polished and the docker issues are ironed out eventually (if ever).
P.S.
Honestly to put it shortly i was expecting so much more than what was given. at least something as big as unraid... but alas
Great video! I just installed TrueNAS scale hoping to move away from my QNAP but have hit a few walls. Would love to see a video on Sonarr for Scale. Not much out there atm. My main 2 issues have been not being able to see the SMB share (so cant add/import shows) and when you hit update it errors saying user doesn't have permission to do that. Liked and subscibed hoping for more great Scale content.
Where did your video go that shows how to use the remaining space on your install drave?
I decided to give this a shot again: you had a video where I could use the remaining space on my 480gig M.2 drive that I am installing TNas on...
Question. Just set up an old PC, Intel quick sync, windows 10, with Plex. It sits in the other room and works. It’s connected through windows file sharing.
Why use a NAS os?
I’m middle age but didn’t grow up with computers so I’ve never used Linux or command prompts. I build my gaming pc’s but it’s simple putting pieces together. Making a home made NAS sounds kinda fun. Watching your videos this week and all this seems like a fun (and maybe frustrating) project.
But, again… what’s the purpose of a home server when file sharing works. (And in my case just a plex server)
I'm using a few cheap parts and my old gaming PC case for a NAS, since with all the removable parts mounted it can fit 6 HDDs, plus 3 more 5.25' bays if I need more space. I installed TrueNAS Scale on a really old 2.5' 80gb drive I had lying around, for testing and just because i don't really have any other use for that drive. I heard that you can backup the configs and replace the system drive easily, so might as well just use that old drive until it dies.
I haven't added my other HDDs because...well.....I forgot to buy more SATA cables.
One thing I wanna try is keep the old optical drive that is still on that case. How does one go about adding an optical drive to TrueNAS? cause it would really come in handy. I still use it often to rip CDs and whatnot.
Great video. One of the reasons I switched was the ease with which you did the GPU passthrough, but it seems like it only works that way on TV or youtube video. The device shows up in the Isolated GPU and can be selected, but when you go to the device to add it, it throws an error. My GPU is in the IOMMU 0 group and it is the only thing in the group, however it does not show up as a PCI device if you try to add it to the VM utilizing the VM's Devices screen. The weird thing is the iGPU can be passed through without issue so I'm not sure if this is a bug, or if there is something different that needs to be done beyond what you did.
Also, keep up the great content!
Thank you for all your videos.
Quick questions...
Where does applications get installed to? Storage pool drives?
Also, is OS drive used for anything other than to run the OS itself?
Thank you.
Some of the limitations in the TrueNas virtualization is why I think I want to rebuild my system with ProxMox as my hypervisor and virtualize TrueNas.
Subscribed because now I'm not the only one who lives near a train track :)
Found your videos which I really enjoy watching. Tried to follow along with how you have done it but they seem to have changed how the configuration is done which was a real head bender for a Truenas Scale newbie trying to setup v24.04.1.1. unless I'm doing something completely wrong it needs the SMB user to be setup 1st.
I am enjoying your TrueNas Scale videos and please continue with them. I am setting up an old Dell T110 II as a TrueNas Scale server and watching your videos I see in this build you are using a WD Ultrastar 12TB SATA drive, is this attached to a HBA controller or just the sata ports on the motherboard. I am getting a HBA 310 in IT mode and was thinking of installing WD Enterprise 6TB SATA drives in this build, or do I need to run SAS drives with the HBA so there is no problems?? I have a 3-4 enterprise drives I would like to use and not want to go out and buy some SAS drives if it is not needed / required?
That intro was epically hilarious!!!
currently using true nas as a mass file storage system, to have an easier way to access files across my devices.
Ok im new to TN and scale is maybe what i been waiting for. I have a Unraid nas. But with TN Scale to create a pool, do you still need to have all the HD the same size and model or certain number of drive to work with scale? Ty again for the video.
Thank you for the great explanation. I have a question regarding the truenas. Do we have a safe mode in truenas.
Excellent Video and No boring!!! :)
do have a question though, assuming that you have a beefy server/workstation(2cpus, 96gbRAM, Various Nics...) is TrueNas S, able to pick up a couple of Windows 2019 Server virtual machines + Linux at the same time?
Yeah for sure, it’s designed more with virtualization in mind so you’ll be good to go.
I very recently uninstalled Truenas and also ditched OMV. The dealbreaker for me was Plex is taking way too long to update. I'm still interested in NAS solutions though but just on an experimental basis for now.
Ooo I'm probably going to be replacing proxmox now.
Thank you so much. Was able to create my 1st SMB. Great video!1
Hey, one doubt, so after the installation, in the console screen it shows to choose from (1-10), so you leave the screen (this system) as it is and keep it on for 24*7 ? after configuring it from another machine, what I mean to ask is, the configuration will be done via the UI from a different machine but the machine where the TRUE NAS is installed and booting, that, will remain in this console mode for ever (as long as the server is up and running) and in case if I plug the monitor in this TRUE NAS (OS) I will see the same console screen which is asking us to choose any digit from (1-10) ? please clarify
Living next to train tracks... Man I've been there!
Enjoyed the intro 😁
I've been looking at scale, but I think I might just stick with OMV, I use a 6th gen I5 with 3 drvs, so I do like the JBOD thing.
But the thing I like best about OMV is using portainer and stacks, it's so easy, also OMV has a good KVM plugin for VMS.
I am Also using OMV with four drives. how to backup os drive? if any updates create problem?
@@kishan210790 Got to admit I don't, but I have a folder for all my containers and a docker txt file with all my docker stacks. I back up my media and important stuff via Syncthing to a old NUC, and then syncthing that to another NUC at my Son's via Tailscale. Seems fairly robust (touch wood).
So you can either Rsync the main drive or Syncthing and there are a number of plugins in OMV itself that probably do what you want.
I cannot for the life of me get TrueNas Scale; running an AMD Ryzen 3 2200g 16gig ram; to show a Display when I am trying to setup a VM.
When I Boot the Machine & Click "Display" to show the VM Post & boot the ISO, something Flashes in the Middle of the screen but disappears Instantly.... System resources show something is going on as resources are being used, but I cannot see anything the VM is doing when trying to access the server from my MacMini in Safari.... I cannot find anything or anyone having this issue....
Great videos. Maybe a video with scale for setting up a reverseproxy?
A great idea.
I'm excited about this release too but i have some questions ...
What if I already have TrueNAS core installed and want to go for TrueNAS Scale but don't want to reformat current drive and use them ?
Will it work?
Will I lose stuffs configs, pool, etc.
I'm on a simple stripe disk config, what are the real risks ?
Tom Lawrence has an excellent video on this if you want to check it out: ruclips.net/video/AFiQXJ-i0s0/видео.html
Basically, yes you can but definitely make sure you have a backup before migrating.
@@RaidOwl Checking right now ... and Yes Tom is cool !
Great video, found it very helpful, I'm running Proxmox and then Scale as a VM. I should work out if I want to take the leap to pure Scale but my only concern is Windows VM's and how they perform.
I have just gone through this process and found some 'got-cha's'
(1) Do not have spaces in the Pool name. There is a bug in the VM creation process that does not parse spaces in the path causing it to fail.
(2) I had to place the installer iso into the parent directory of the pool and change ownership to user libvirt-qemu for the installer process to be able to read the iso file. It made no difference if I copied the iso onto the nas via smb share or used the web interface to upload the iso. this can be done via the console using chown command.
You have forgot to mention to add "libvirt-qemu" to SMB permissions to be able to read ISO.
Have you done any TrueNas videos on configuring a 2.5gb NIC, I have a 2.5 TRENDnet 2.5GBase-T PCIe Network Adapter, TEG-25GECTX and when I install TrueNas Scale it only sees this card as a 1gb NIC. I know how to update nic drivers in Windows but I have no idea how to update nic drivers in TrueNas Scale? Just thought there might be others with the same problem. Sorry for all the questions today. Thanks Jim
Really great summary!! Ive just recently switched from core to scale. Can you do a tutorial on how to install a nextcloud server and tunnel it with cloudflare? Ive used your tunnel tutorial on the core version, but scale seems to be very different! Im having some trouble understanding the new docker method, would like to see another great summary on this =]
Can u do a follow up, with Scale vs Proxmox experience?
Yessir
@@RaidOwl thank you! looking forward to it!!
Hello,
- what is the best practice (settings in TrueNAS scale) for disks power management?
- what is the best practice (settings in TrueNAS scale) for creating a storage pool, related to data,cache/log drives allocation? and how much having cache/log drives influence the transfer speed?
- in case of TrueNAS fail (computer not disks), after reinstalling the old disks on a new machine it is possible to recreate/import the old storage pool?
Thanks in advance and Keep up the great work!
Lucian
Sorry to say, but they changed how to install Truecharts. You'll have to look at their web page for installing it.
If you want to add trains to Truecharts. You can go to Manage Catalogs then click the three dots on the right of the catalog you want add trains to. Then click edit, then go to Preferred Trains drop down you will then be provided with all available trains, those installed trains will have check marks. To add trains just set check mark then save. You will have to go back to Available Applications and Refresh All to complete.
wtf are trains?
FYI, you shouldn’t have set “8 threads” in the VM settings. That’s a threads-per-core value. Not total-threads value. So setting 2 threads per core would equal 8 total threads. What you entered (1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads) is equal to 32 threads. Not the 8 threads you’re going for
thats true, i learned that the last days the hard way. never saw a windows installation took a whole night with 100% cpu usage on the host cpu xD (i5 3330) lol. it emulated more threads than it had
Great intro!
Thank you, Tim!
Great Effort. Thank you.
At the beginning of the video you talked about the possibility of running KVM, LXV containers, and Docker apps on TNS. Are LXC containers supported out of the box? I did not think they were. Have you set that up behind the scenes or something, or is this a feature they are planning on adding? The ability to run full Linux containers is one of the big benefits I see to Proxmox over TNS.
hi i love your channel, when you made this video, i was able to follow along and setup shares, and a 8 months ago my server died, and 2 months ago i finally got a new one going and decided to install version 8 but can't set things up, the have changed the interface can you make an updated video for this?????????
I'm actually looking to migrate to Scale from Core; I hear the VM features are more robust than core.
Thanks for the video.
I recently got hit with Deadbolt on my Asustor; attack vector was the ADM update process. I want to start my own HomeLab and ditch the Asustor NAS, and I am looking at this software. Obviously recommended, but things like VPN and (maybe) NginX Proxy Server easy to set up here as well (I am guessing through Docker)?
Man you're really pumpin out content. Slow down I cant keep up
I’ll sleep when I die 💪🏼
2 things missing which makes me stay with proxmox: no docker-compose and no lxc support on webui
Yeah I feel this