truenas
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home lab
Minisforum N5 Pro NAS might replace our home lab servers with AI storage?
I have to say that this is one that I am really excited about. The Minisforum N5 Pro NAS will be Minisforum’s first foray into the NAS world. However, they are already very adept with hardware that is both cutting…
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Proxmox
TrueNAS on Proxmox Installation and Configuration Steps
Combining TrueNAS with Proxmox is a great way for many to access virtualized storage environments. These integrations combine TrueNAS’s reliable storage capabilities and Proxmox’s virtualization features. Both of these are hugely popular. Let’s take a look at running a TrueNAS…
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home lab
How to Downsize your Home Lab
Running your own home lab, where you manage your own server, can be fun and exciting. These can be used for learning, experimenting, or managing personal data and services; your own home lab can help you accomplish all of these.…
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home lab
TrueNAS Virtual Machine Configuration: Step-by-Step Tips
TrueNAS provides a powerful platform for running a homelab. It provides a “LAN in a CAN” approach to running everything from NAS storage, virtual machines, and containerized applications, including vanilla Docker. This article will look at TrueNAS virtual machine configuration…
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Kubernetes
NFS Subdir External Provisioner: Connect Your NAS with Kubernetes
One of the cool things I have done recently in the lab is working with shared storage class configurations with Kubernetes persistent volumes. I recently set up an NFS share on my Synology NAS device and used the nfs-subdir-external-provisioner to…
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Self hosted
TrueNAS vs Synology: Best Network Attached Storage
I have been testing a lot lately with TrueNAS Scale as I decided to install it on bare-metal on an older Supermicro from which I had migrated my VMware vSphere environment. Since I already had a Synology DS1621xs+ NAS, I…
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Storage
TrueNAS Docker Compose with Scale Apps and Truecharts
TrueNAS can truly be a LAN in a CAN solution as it can run virtual machines and even Docker containers which you may not have realized. Let’s look at this feature and see how it can run containerized apps easily…
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Storage
Truenas Core vs. Scale – A detailed comparison
TrueNAS has made a name for itself as a great all around solution for not only storage but also running workloads itself like virtual machines and even Docker containers. There are two versions that you may have noticed you can…
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ESXi on ARM
Add iSCSI Shared Storage to VMware ESXi-Arm
One of the exciting things in the home lab as of late is the ESXi-ARM fling that I have installed on my Raspberry Pi 4 test box. After installing the ESXi-ARM Fling on the Raspberry Pi 4, of course, I…
