Wendel would you be able to post more of these hobbyist nas videos?

This is probably pretty niche content, but personally I will be watching every truenas scale video you drop. Love learning more about this stuff.

I always watched you when you did news on that not to be mentioned channel and you peered through your two monitors to the camera before I was a teen. I've built a few NASs and heaps of PCs now and I'm super excited to see you geek out and push this new platform. That old server stuff is cheap but a few thousand dollars is a little steep (especially as a student's hobby).

I want to see some content on the scale side so rather than the overkill server as a NAS and virtualization stack in one box. I want to see lots of small to medium size systems “glued” together as a coherent platform

My favorite practical home lab thing has been running my nas and virtualizing all my home services with docker. More videos like this. 👍

that was one of the friendliest introductions to a new project i've ever seen. especially the part in keeping the support work away from the original developers of truenas (core), i hope that is as appreciated by them as it is by me. i've started tinkering with scale in a vm (on my core machine) just to figure out how everything works. still struggling with how to set up smb shares in a "advanced home network" environment, so no AD or similar to get the windows security identifier... very strange compared to core. but i'll get used to it and i think it'll be amazing as a "one fits all - hyperconvered" infrastructure thing where i can run everything i need on one box. looking forward to that series of you!

This is excellent! I would LOVE to see a video on setting up VPN/next cloud. Love all this info, looking forward to this video series!

Love it! I am a COMPLETE NOOB and having freenas running for the last 5 years.... Brings such happyness having ZERO issues with it... Well, it BURNS USB memory sticks if u try to zfs them... but its all good. Hahaha Keep up the good vid's.

I run TrueNAS Core in a VM under Proxmox and just passthrough my HBA. Seems like TrueNAS Scale could easily replace Proxmox and let me use the same storage pool directly for other VMs. Excited to give it a try when it's ready.

Wendell, I have to admit that I am looking forward to this series of videos.

I just build a TrueNas core using a HP Workstation, will give the TruneNas Scale a try, still learning TrueNas, thanks for sharing

Been contemplating on building a truenas machine to replace my unraid. TrueNAS has been looking real good and native zfs is something I want.

It would be really nice to see some testing of iWARP vs RoCE for the RDMA testing as the whole DCB overhead of RoCE is off putting for home/small-business labs.

can't wait to see the upcoming videos

I'm really excited to test out the actual scaling part of true nas scale.

Can’t wait for the rest of this series. Currently acquiring the parts to build a 42u dedicated to AI research with 100gb infiniband between everything

I like this type of content. More please !

Yes, this is very interesting! Take us down the rabbit hole :)

I've been running SCALE for 6 months now and it's rock solid stable with excellent performance. The SMB shares are really easy to work with and the Plex hardware transcoding is much easier to get going on SCALE than Core.

Would love to see a video with you and Tom @lawrence do a video or at least see you guys on a podcast together.

Thanks for the vid! I have a pair of R820's with SFP+ 10G cards that I'll be using to test scale on...mostly targeting k8s and docker functionality

Wendel, it is fascinating to hear you ramble, though my comprehension of what you are putting out I would be ashamed to disclose.

I would love to see your breakdown/analysis of how VMs run on TrueNas Scale. Really enjoy your videos!

Just build a Home NAS with TrueNAS Scale two days ago, very keen to see where this series goes.

I like this, I'll check the forums next time I'm bumbling on some vague perfectionist home IT improvements

Really good video - thanks a bunch. TrueNAS SCALE is indeed a cool product, though I think most users will be happy with TrueNAS Core. The main attraction to SCALE are the Docker containers and KVM integration, though the product was initially developed to solve horizontal scaling - a feature that TrueNAS or FreeNAS could never quite deal with in the past. Being able to have native Docker containers I think will make the platform seem more appealing to new users, but for the most stable experience, TrueNAS Core is likely still the tried and true, and should still be the base of the TrueNAS Enterprise products (not necessarily the same build, Core is kinda the beta for Enterprise, but mostly based on the FreeBSD platform with more native ZFS support).

I've been running SCALE since the alpha and I have no major complaints. I'm waiting for the stable release before I migrate my synology's data over but for now I've got pihole, plex, jellyfin, multiple valheim (game) servers, minecraft (game server), and transmission (torrents) running via containers. I wanted the highest core count lowest power usage system so I've got: Ryzen 9 5900 12 Core @ 45W TDP via "Eco mode" Asrock Rack x570 mATX motherboard - Future 10GBe expansion 64GB 3200Mhz ECC (i really want another kit before I add spinning rust storage) NVME only pool for now.

I'm super excited about TrueNAS Scale and this video series. Would love to see how to configure ZFS for good performance with spinning rust and an SSD or two.

You magnificent so and so... I have everything but a CPU cooler for my upcoming truenas scale build and i wanted to do some advanced VM stuff as well (preferably clustering. I was hoping to get proxmox installed along side truenas scale given they both seem to be built on debian iirc). I want to be able to easily pause, move a VM to a different box, and resume a VM while using all the great filesystem management, docker, and smb sharing awesomeness in truenas scale.

What timing! I'm currently migrating my dual E5 v2 128 GB build to TrueNAS Scale. 4x 2 TB NVMe in RAID Z1. Backups to B2. Everything's great so far. Hourly file history for windows desktops small oopsies, two week ZFS snapshot window for normal oopsies, daily offsite one-ways for big oopsies. zstd-3 and dedupe can run at my line rate (10G). I have yet to play with iSCSI for steam library, but it's on my list. It's so nice to finally have a high performance and reliable local VM host for my software playground wants.

I'm running TrueNAS Scale on my old gaming PC, R7 2700x, 32GB of RAM and some IronWolf 4TB HDDs. Works pretty well. This is why you don't throw away old hardware if you can

cannot wait for more videos on this...

Eyeohs lol - always makes me laugh when people make words out of Acronyms - hadn't heard that now before!

running it on mini x+ could not be happier used only for family nextcloud and so far the upgrade process have cause minor issues other services i have running heimdall , home assistant and traefik to which i can't understand at all yet since its more capable than nginx but lacks a gui . just a note in case other users of scale are reading if you will install traefik or similar remember to change your trunas scale ports, at least for me when i try to edit config.php for nextcloud need to do a apt-get update then install every time nano so i can adjust the file. cheers looking forward for next video

i love cockpit - been porting over to podman now. 🙂

Fantastic content.

I use a DAS as I need fast local high capacity storage. My Switch doesn't have anything faster than Gigabit speeds, and anything faster was prohibitively expensive when I made the purchase. I ended up with a QNAP TR-004 because it has a 5Gb USB 3 connection. Faster than my network, but future proof so when I upgrade and get a faster switch and a NAS I can connect it as local storage expansion. (the TR-004 also gives me hardware Raid 5!) I've rarely seen anyone talk about this advantage.

Awesome! I use a VM running k3s/Rancher to manage all my containers on TrueNAS Scale. I don't like what they've done to the UI for apps and I only run it when I need it. Before, I ran Rancher right on TrueNAS Scale but that caused some problems that grew out of controls after updates

Looking forward to some “pushed to the limit” TrueNas setups

I didn't know that RDNA had this much potential!!!!

I actually run one of those "NUC" type machines but it's only a quad core 4150j and 16gb ram and for the media server and phone dump server it works just fine for my family of 4. Android phones use VLC and file manger+ and all my laptops, pcs and smart TV are able to access with no issues. 4 phones, 4 pcs, 2 TV and 1 tablet can access the same movie (1080p) at different spots with no lag. Even with scrubbing thru the timeliness of that movie. Fanless design never gets above 60c and you can't even see the cpu working more than 20-30% at our full load. That being said, it's only for Lan consumption.

I definitely want to see how some of this goes. I've kinda watched truenas and freenas for a while, and my dad has a freenas mini that he kinda pushes to the processing limit.

I've been using Scale since early beta, and it's been pretty solid. Using NFS/SMB/iSCSI without any issues. Had some (possibly) self-inflicted routing issues that I've worked around. Not a fan of their wizard/GUI for creating a container, hopefully they add support to dump docker-compose files similar to portainer.

This is great!! I'm curious how setting up some kind of HCI at home would be

Interesting to try: run an Elasticsearch cluster on it with machine learning and something with the complete project Gutenberg ebook collection on it.

Thanks for that, btw. if you don't need that little box you showing a little in the video, i could put it to some good use. I run TrueNas Core as a backup target system and could see, as there's zfs in place, TrueNas scale as a snapshot target (in their means) and run multiple containers on that machine. Would be nice to see the interoperability between the 2. TrueNas core is using a configuration database to store the configuration you do on the gui, like in every aspect. TrueNas scale prob uses the same config-db mechanism. Would be nice to see tingleling with that. Like wirting config into that database to make it robust against updates or any other changes ixSystems pulls up. For now i need to reapply some cronjobs after every update, really annoying, espeacilly if you forget about that detail.

Could you do a noobs guide on TrueNAS? You're really calm and easy to listen to, but I feel like Im so out of the loop with some stuff that I would love to learn more from you

Along the lines of your drives saturating the memory bus, can you use something like Intel MBM to report memory bandwidth usage? Note that MBM didn't work on certain versions of Intel CPUs (I know right!?).

I'm waiting for this videos ...

I would watch more TrueNAS content.

You know Wendell is becoming serious when he finally add another server to his rack.

Is it just me or is there a teeny-tiny delay in the audio vs the video?

I've been running freenas for a long time. I just upgraded to truenas last night. 18 core xeon 128GB of ram and i'm only using it for SMB. I've been having reliability issues with permissions since I started messing with it... I wish it was a bit easier to manage.

I'm using several Gigabyte NUCs (BRICs) for servers. They work great.

The modularity of ZFS is nice in that I have TNCore running in Hyper-V and TNScale in KVM on a desktop that currently dual boots Win/Linux. I don't know if this is still that case, but in an early version of Scale running an "apt upgrade" broke the whole thing. That made me wary of futzing with it outside of the WebUi, and I generally prefer just using Proxmox for VMs and containers.

The appliance nature of TrueNAS makes it really easy for my client to manage users. I set it up for them in a VM on a DRBD partition, 2 server solution. Ridiculously cheap, and redundancy beyond what some of the large enterprises i work for can manage. I am slightly worried about the recovery capability of ZFS vs EXT4 in the event of a drive failure & DRBD failover.

I'm actually running this on a Threadripper 2970WX with 128gig of ram an LSI SAS 9201-16e a NetApp DS4246 and NetApp DS2246. I have aggerated 2 10gig nic's on it and 10gig network it runs great.

more more more please! :-)

I have a 10KW solar install ground mounted next to my house. As long as I do most of my computing during the day it's "free" electricity. Maybe the Level1 crew needs solar on your roof.

For RDMA look at what Oracle is doing on their Engineered systems/platforms.

You mentioned Windows Server 2022 performance, is that something you're planning to do a video about?

ZFS will be better with ECC, make sure your small form factor support ECC if going SFF (Ryzen Pro)

Thank you for this. More on Truenas Scale and the Apps would be great. However, After being on scale from it's first release patiently waiting to get to this RC and beyond I've discovered that kubernetes is a whole different beast network wise to Docker and is quite tricky. But my biggest disappointment is sharing an Nvidia gpu on Truenas Scale (kubernetes) Apps isn't possible at the moment anyway and doesn't appear to be something on the immediate horizon from what I can find.. Gutted when I realised this and basically will have to run a VM after all, with containers or limit GPU duties to one container on Scale itself..

Dropping by to say that if you haven't taken the time to upgrade to TrueNAS Scale yet, take the down-time and DO IT! All of my weird performance quirks and suddenly fixed.

I have a NUC 10 NUCi7FNH. So you think I should go TrueNAS Scale or Core? Maybe I will do this and and run Plex container

For some reason I have these weird dead locks on the SMB mount where Windows explorer just freezes while the ZFS mount in Linux keeps working. It does come back after a bit. I can't find my case on Google.

Yes, 100% video on TrueNas Scale VPN

What sort of performance implications would there with your hardware virtualizing Scale and handling VMs/Docker/etc separately?

Can't wait for Wendell to tackle Openshift

Will there be any "scale out" content in the future; ie multinode TrueNAS Scale node testing? I can't recall if i've ever seen someone using the scale out feature (Gluster?) in Scale, so that would be interesting, especially failure modes & recovery

Tailscale can get around the carrier grade nat problem

Somebody give Wendel a cookie and a glass of milk. Computer janitor is uderrated profession until you hit a wall.

I just put a DS4246 into my LACK rack, need to fill it but the network is 10g and ready for me to get this all setup. Just need the time now..

I would be interested in seeing how to cluster multiple true nas scale nodes. Pcie passthrough would be interesting for vms as well.

Would love to see a series on a Home NextCloud Server running on a ProxMox and VPN'ing in.

I am kind of looking in the same direction. I bought an old 20 core xeon system for TrueNAS because my old CL2550 died (which I bought in 2014 because of Wendell :) ). I am currently running proxmox and running TrueNAS virtualized. I am kind of paralyzed by choice. Run TrueNAS vitualized? I want to add home automation stuff and nextcloud. Run that in kubernetes on TrueNAS scale? Run it in a VM in proxmox? Argh.

Can you dive in to k3s on truenas scale and how it works in a cluster?

There's a lot of low frequency noise in the sound, I think from bumping into the table or something. Maybe have a look at isolating the mic from the table better? Now I keep thinking someone's knocking on my door :P

DDR5 on truenas would be interesting, since you talked about memory bandwidth

Can we stand up a DIY video streaming service with that type of bandwidth? (Kind of like "guerilla KZfaq") Or is that more bottle-necked at the network bandwidth? Or, with that much data bandwidth and compute, can we have a "big data + ML" machine compact enough for the home?

I'd love to see how it works on 2 HPE Proliant P16006-001 micro servers. This seems like a great option because you can put a 10 Gb network card in both. Then you have a redundant solution with what? 12TB max of (SATA) SSD in RAID 5 with redundancy? Plus, 4 dedicated gigabit ports for VMs/containers without having to use a virtual switch. All with 8 cores for ~$1300 (plus hard drives/ssds) when they stop being $1050 each and go back to their regular $500-550 range.

can you send on the link for that switch at the price thak just look at the price its a lot higher from Ireland even checking on ebay thanks

can TrueNas Scale be used for web server, to host multiple websites from small home NAS? Maybe using some TrueCharts apps?

Wendell: The Anti-Grinch

Don't go chasing waterfalls, stick to the Docker containers you're used too...

Was looking at it to for a kubernetes cluster and migrate existing vmware vpshere setup over, but it's really still to much home use aimed. We will settle on proxmox and VM's for kubernetes.

Wendel.... How about a virtual super computer with the AMD 64? Like Watson??

15:00 Just a thought, could it be achieved with on the same server, ZFS -> ISCSI -> mount a drive in Windows Server VM -> SMB RDMA?

I've got an old dl380 g8 dual xeons/200gb ram with 2x25 drive Das. I currently run truenas core nested inside proxmox. I want to ditch that setup and switch to native truenas scale. This is gonna be very interesting to me. I run nextcloud and all sorts of fun things on that server and I also have a 32gb 4cores "dev" environment with consumer grade stuff (4 internal drives + 6 external drives Das) which currently runs truenas scale native for testing purposes before I make the switch...

We are waiting on your Nextcloud with open VPN video

What's the differences between TrueNAS Scale and Proxmox, and what should be the use case to use one over the other? 🤔

More of this.

Am I the only one that heard that finger drumming and went to check who was knocking at their door?

I will probably go from Core to Scale. Because damn... FreeBSD is a hardcore thing. I manages some stuff have some Iocages but it just doesn't click. I like me some linux

I'm going the other way with this. What is a good cheapish option for a NAS. I currently have a 5 Bay hardrive cage that has USB3.0. And a raspberry pi 4 4GB. What are good options to make this a NAS

Amazing video. I just thought you talking with my mouth

How about M1 Mac mini with 16gb ram & 10gig lan has a media server and for virtualisation

Based

I've been wondering whether adding LXD to TrueNAS Scale would be a possibility.

I'm currently boycotting the like/dislike buttons on YT. So, I thought I'd post this info for the algorithm . Also, your mic picks up all of the times you thump the table.