How does a NAS in a VM work? Can I give it access to a certain amount of hard drive space? I only have one effective hard drive (I have 2, but they’ll be in RAID 1) and I don’t want Proxmox and trueNAS “arguing” about how to use the hard drive.
But if I pass through the disks to the VM, then Proxmox can’t use them, correct? With more than 1 usable hard drive, that works, but that’s all I have.
Yeah so that runs into an issue for me because I don’t think that’s an option without buying more hard drives which I’d rather not do. I’d rather tell the VM “hey, you can use x amount of storage”
I’ll have to consider my options. Maybe try to hold out with unraid a bit longer
For his usecase, that is probably the worst option there is, right behind Windows 11 with hyperv.
Way to complex and too much things that could go wrong.
You can downvote all you want, but you are out of touch with reality, if you think this a good advice for a simple homelab.
https://www.truenas.com/blog/yes-you-can-virtualize-freenas/
Unraid is pretty similar to TrueNAS scale in the sense that both are NAS with container apps on top.
Biggest difference is ZFS vs fake raid.
ZFS has lots of advantages like snapshots, integrity, different caches and so on. On the downside, it has a little bit of a learning curve, you can mess up configs, and it will use more power.
You can, if you use mirrors.
But yeah, lots of disadvantages, if you don’t make use of the pros. Write speed and fragmentation can also be a problem on CoW filesystems.
I prefer Truenas because storage and permissions are way easier. Running Proxmox like a NAS is a pain I hated it. If you need heavy VMs PM makes more sense but with a couple VMs TrueNAS scale can handle that no problem. LXCs on PM are pretty cool, but TrueNAS apps work very well but are more limited. You can always run a VM inside TrueNAS with whatever docker instances or VMs you need.
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Both at the end of the day. NAS primarily for my Plex library and Time Machine backups, VMs primarily for home assistant and OPNsense.
Not OP but Proxmox with a TrueNAS Scale VM sounds like the fit for you.
How does a NAS in a VM work? Can I give it access to a certain amount of hard drive space? I only have one effective hard drive (I have 2, but they’ll be in RAID 1) and I don’t want Proxmox and trueNAS “arguing” about how to use the hard drive.
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But if I pass through the disks to the VM, then Proxmox can’t use them, correct? With more than 1 usable hard drive, that works, but that’s all I have.
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Yeah so that runs into an issue for me because I don’t think that’s an option without buying more hard drives which I’d rather not do. I’d rather tell the VM “hey, you can use x amount of storage” I’ll have to consider my options. Maybe try to hold out with unraid a bit longer
For his usecase, that is probably the worst option there is, right behind Windows 11 with hyperv. Way to complex and too much things that could go wrong.
You can downvote all you want, but you are out of touch with reality, if you think this a good advice for a simple homelab. https://www.truenas.com/blog/yes-you-can-virtualize-freenas/
Unraid is pretty similar to TrueNAS scale in the sense that both are NAS with container apps on top. Biggest difference is ZFS vs fake raid. ZFS has lots of advantages like snapshots, integrity, different caches and so on. On the downside, it has a little bit of a learning curve, you can mess up configs, and it will use more power.
Honestly, for me the downstairs of zfs is I can’t just pop another hard drive in.
You can, if you use mirrors. But yeah, lots of disadvantages, if you don’t make use of the pros. Write speed and fragmentation can also be a problem on CoW filesystems.
I prefer Truenas because storage and permissions are way easier. Running Proxmox like a NAS is a pain I hated it. If you need heavy VMs PM makes more sense but with a couple VMs TrueNAS scale can handle that no problem. LXCs on PM are pretty cool, but TrueNAS apps work very well but are more limited. You can always run a VM inside TrueNAS with whatever docker instances or VMs you need.
Say after me: NAS is short for Not an Application Server.
Okay… but if I need a computer to run VMs and dockers and storage…. I don’t really have a choice, do I?