Proxmox + TrueNAS Scale + PfSense Mini PC Build

Proxmox + TrueNAS Scale + PfSense Mini PC Build - A Beginners Setup Guide

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Download pfSense - www.pfsense.org/download/
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Video Chapters
00:00 - The Start
00:55 - The purpose of the video
01:25 - What You Need?
02:18 - Physical Storage Notes - Important
03:37 - Software Your Need to Download
07:28 - How to Create Your Proxmox USB Installer Drive
08:40 - if Your USB is not visible?
10:30 - How to Install Proxmox on a Mini PC
16:29 - Finding Your Proxmox Server on the Network
17:50 - How to Add ISOs to Proxmox (Direct Download and/or Upload)
19:45 - How to Create a pfSence VM in Proxmox
27:42 - How to Create a TrueNAS Scale VM in Proxmox
35:02 - Finished Proxmox+TrueNAS+pfSense Mini PC NAS
37:26 - Important Setup Notes and Viability
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@reinaweis 5 ай бұрын

I highly recommend Ventoy for usb flash devices. You can just throw the .iso's onto the drive and it will display a menu option for each one. Minimal fuss.

@metrotechguru5863 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for this video. It was very helpful.

@ayilafola7156 2 ай бұрын

The very best explanation. Thank you

@UdoHartmann 4 ай бұрын

As you're configured direct hardware passthrough, you could (should) have mentioned, that you have to enable iommu (which isn't, as clearly stated by proxmox itself, e.g. tc 0:30:37)

@acjdejonge 5 ай бұрын

Proxmox best hypervisor 👌( in my opinion)run it on my Lenovo P520 and mount my Synology drives in Proxmox

@SuperFredAZ 5 ай бұрын

thanks for this, I didn't understand what Proxmox was.

@veteran35th 4 ай бұрын

Great vid, came along at just the right time. A review on mini-pcs that can handle a Proxmox install with no faffing about (like having to remove an SSD due to Windows)?

@mrguiltyfool 5 ай бұрын

Can you do a video on a mining pc using hive os doubling as a nas/cloud media center?

@erictrinque6513 5 ай бұрын

very good timing. I am setting up my system today with the near exact setup. Ser6Pro 6800h, 64gb ram, 1-tb host drive, 4-8tb Hdds in the Asustor Expanstor running proxmox with truenas passthrough

@Psycoker Ай бұрын

Thoughts on this beelink nuc? was thinking of buying it as a proxmox server

@NonyaDamnbusiness 5 ай бұрын

I used a CWWK appliance with 4 2.5G ports, 32GB RAM, & N305 CPU. Passed thru the WAN & LAN to OPNsense VM. Used a 3rd port for Proxmox maintenance, the 4th port is for Home Assistant OS and an LXC that does nothing but run 30+ Docker containers. It's all backed up every 24 hours via a Proxmox Backup Server VM running on an Deskmini X300 UNRAID box to my Lockerstor 4 NAS and then the files are synced-up over a Hetzner Storage Box located in [REDACTED] on the other side of the planet and encrypted because I'm paranoid about data-at-rest.

@andrewbroadfort6856 5 ай бұрын

What is the storage bandwidth of TrueNAS running in a VM vs TrueNAS running on bare metal?

@ajama1335 5 ай бұрын

From an availability perspective, I feel more comfortable running PFSENSE on bare metal rather than virtualising. Can't have a single point of failure, even in my home environment. Good video never the less.

@blender_wiki 5 ай бұрын

If you go about it correctly (unlike how it's done in this video), virtualizing pfSense/Open Sense is genuinely not a problem. For added resilience and to minimize points of failure, it is advisable to establish a secondary pfSense installation as a failover.

@bokami3445 Ай бұрын

4:00 -> Not strictly true. The machine has a digital windows license built into the bios. I have the SER5 Pro and upon hooking it up, I downloaded a fresh windows ISO, rufus'ed it to a USB drive and did a fresh install of the OS. I would recommend downloading the drivers from BeeLink's website. In my case there were only two devices that Windows couldn't identify and had to use the BeeLink drivers. This fresh install, activated as soon as Windows was able to connect to the Internet. If you are not sure about the digital license, boot up the natively installed windows and look at the Settings/System/About page.. it you see Digital License then you are good to go.

@GreatVomitto Ай бұрын

I want to do this on my old PC. It has windows installed on sata drive which I don't want to lose. Can I partition SSD and choose which system I want to boot?

@genshinimpactjoki5393 10 күн бұрын

can we add more storage by using external SSD via USB?

@FrenziedManbeast 5 ай бұрын

I've got to say your timing sometimes is IMPECCABLE sir! I will usually pop in for your new videos, but I'm building a new server next week (when the parts arrive) based on AMD Epyc Milan (7313P). My plan is to do exactly this with Proxmox as Bare Metal OS w/ TrueNAS Scale + other VMs. Reason being I'm absolutely happy with TrueNAS Scale as a NAS OS. However I've continually run into problem after problem after problem with using TNScale's other features: Apps, VMs, etc. all causing me way more pain and suffering than I care to endure. And I normally don't mind a bit of fiddly work, but taking into account how volatile it can cause things to break on the NAS and that's volatility and risk I don't want to introduce to my appliance NAS. Sooo I'm planning on just running other server VMs that handle serving the data and letting TrueNAS Scale just store and share the data via SMB. Wish me luck!

@fahadusman3538 5 ай бұрын

you need a minimum of two network interfaces for pfSense. 1 for WAN and 1 for LAN. you can get the WAN address via DHCP from your primary home router. For TrueNas should have PCI passthrough drives. What's the point of setting up a TrueNas VM without any drives? Good video though because this mini PC is very energy efficient

@AbdulKalam-nj2ey Ай бұрын

hey usman is ethernet cable is compulsary for the installation for true nas or pf sense or we can use inbuilt wifi network card

@InspectorGadget2014 5 ай бұрын

Sometimes the simplest things are the most powerful...

@roryniland 5 ай бұрын

Ok so we can take it as read the Aoostar R7 is too difficult (or time consuming) to set up with proxmox

@nascompares 5 ай бұрын

The Aoostar would definitely be the better proxmox choice (graphical support depending) as it has more LAN options, but this video is a guidelines video on the installation, not a "use this mini PC" video

@roryniland 5 ай бұрын

@@nascompares understood, but you said you were going to do a video of proxmox on the Aoostar R7, are you still going to that ?

@nascompares 5 ай бұрын

Yep, just finding the time tbh. It's half filmed (prox already on it), just a question of doing the rest and editing. The mini PC vid was already on the to-do list since late Nov

@userlicioustv 4 ай бұрын

I picked up an R7 after finding it on AliExpress and seeing your sheer excitement! Going to deploy it (aka drop it off at my sister’s place as an offsite, home-friendly TrueNAS backup, instead of a nerdy 8-bay build that will take up too much room on her living room mantle….

@NFTwizardz 4 ай бұрын

Please help me im going crazy!!!! I have: 12600k 32gb ram ddr4 500gb nvme 2x 8tb hdd I want to run: nas Plex / jellyfin Win11 vm Home Assistant with ai voice I want to use proxmox thought i could VM an NAS OS then VM DEBIAN WITH CASAOS for everything else.

@OlindoPindaro 5 ай бұрын

Using ventoy is more easy and practical than rufus

@benjamin1832 Ай бұрын

Imagine to have a powerful hipper visor and also add another powerfulserver with this but not be abble to add storage … no point

@nikolarun 5 ай бұрын

I am a bit confused by this video. so if you plug your modem into this mini pc , as it is the only eth port, how do you branch out to your lan network ? surely that is the point of pfsense right ? how is proxmox goint to route the network traffic to pfsense and then pfsense to all the other vms ? am I missing something ?

@nascompares 5 ай бұрын

This video, as mentioned a few times, is a general/soft guide to show how to setup TN and PF in proxmox on a custom PC (in this case a mini PC), but not a recommendation for using a mini PC for that task

@bluesquadron593 5 ай бұрын

As Robbie said it was more of a teaser than a tutorial. As you may have seen in my comment I wasn't too much for this approach, but if you have taken away some positives, it's good enough I suppose. But to your point, if you google "pfsense single nic" you will find some tutorials how to get it done. The magic sauce is the VLANs and VLAN capable switch. If you don't care much for the slower speeds and complexity it's an option.

@bluesquadron593 5 ай бұрын

Sorry, but no. Your pfsense install and specifically the network install and hardware passthrough was misleading at best. Virtualizing pfsense needs to have some careful thinking how would your entire network react to proxmox host updates. Second, you would need at least two nics to make some sense. Theoretically one could be enough with a managed switch, but that's a further complication. Your proxmox will also need to get ip from the virtual pfsense. Once you have passed through a device to a VM, The proxmox host stops seing it. So you need to have virtual networks also. There is absolutely no use of the wi-fi in pfsense. You have not set up IOMMU passthrough so assigning those to VMs wouldn't have worked anyhow. You had a warning on that. Setting up IOMMU passthrough could be challenging itself. Older or very new hardware may have issues. There are even more considerations, but these are probably enough to show that the presentation you had in the video may cause headaches for some subscribers. I known you mentioned Wendell and that everything is very much hardware specific, but I think a single nic mini pc is just too much.

@metrotechguru5863 5 ай бұрын

Sorry, but yes. The point of this video, which you missed entirely, was to provide a high level overview of Proxmox for beginners. As he stated several times, this was not intended as a "one and done" tutorial for everyone's use case. It was meant as a demonstration to folks who may be new to virtualization. I'm sure this video was very helpful to many people's understanding.

@blender_wiki 5 ай бұрын

@@metrotechguru5863 "High-end overview for beginners" is an oxymoron. Double 👎👎

@ThatDuuuuuude 5 ай бұрын

@@metrotechguru5863 bluesquadron593 is 100% right. The video is super misleading, TrueNAS virtualized is a no-no for production environment (it's only recommended for testing) plus if you're new to the game following such tutorials does more harm than being helpful.

@tonyc523 5 ай бұрын

No my brother, this video is a fail for multiple reasons. But if ppl watch this and gain something from it, more power to them. I wudda left off pfsense and openwrt but included some jbod USB enclosure that works with truenas.