As a former sysadmin, I just had to replace a home NAS #truenas disk with a serial Number "WDH07B6X".

A WD prefix? That's a Western Digital drive.... right?

Nope.... Some schmuck in 2016 at Seagate is now having a laugh at my expense, having started serial numbers with a WD prefix back in 2016.

Bericht KW14:

- Mo: Testlauf als Vorbereitig für 80+ Access Points Netzwerk auf 13500qm². #Unifi #DreamMachine installiert.
- Di: Nacharbeiten und weitere #Windows11 Migrationen
- Mi: Austausch Hardware für Fax an #3CX . Dabei komplette Übernahme der gesamten Betreuung vereinbart. Yay!
- Do: Vorbereitung und Begleitung eines neuen #SAP Servers als VM unter #TrueNAS
- Fr: Funkstrecken aktiviert und eingemessen

Highlight: Site 2 Site #VPN mit #Unifi ist echt schick!

Bericht KW13:

- Mo: Diverse Nacharbeiten und #Tickets, #Easybell Cloud eingerichtet
- Di: #LTE als Backup WAN für #OPNsense. Neue Rechner installiert. #TrueNAS Offsite Backup aktiviert
- Mi: #3CX Upgrade auf v20 und Kundenübernahme
- Do: Kleinigkeiten, privates
- Fr: Kompletter Netzwerktausch und Wechsel auf #Unifi, #Richtfunk, #WLAN
- Sa: Fortsetzung von Freitag

Highlight: Ein komplettes Netzwerk im laufenden Betrieb umstellen... klappt!

https://mastodon.online/@feinste_netzwerke/114238720768795794

TrueNAS Is My Linux NAS v2

https://video.fosshq.org/w/vqVpX7vNHatr4HzDVreFy5

I think it's about time I took the plunge and upgraded my #truenas box to Electric Eel. It's been a while now, and I've finally managed to get rid of all the TrueCharts apps on it.

Point release upgrades have always gone smoothly, but I'm a bit nervous about this major update, especially as a *lot* changes under the hood wrt apps. All the k8s/docker/truecharts drama has me wishing I'd just installed everything in a VM running docker...

After more than 130 hours and with all the tests being successful I just replaced an old 4tb disk with an old 12tb disk, now I just need to wait for the resilver to complete. #homelab #truenas

Neuer #Auftrag und meine Beschäftigung für heute und morgen:

#Unifi Dream Machine + diverse #Switch, 2 Richt #Funkstrecken, Offsite #Backup, #Kamera Überwachung, #WLAN Abdeckung innen und außen. Zentrale Versorgung aller Komponenten per PoE. #TrueNAS Server wird per #USV abgesichert, ins #Netzwerk integriert und alle PCs auf die neue Struktur umgestellt.

As #TrueNAS #Mini series from #iXsystems was often 'the' hardware choice for #FreeBSD based TrueNAS CORE systems - sometimes people look for information how to build such systems themselves.

Here are vendors of main components of TrueNAS Mini series.

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/using-actual-raw-freebsd-as-the-os-on-truenas-hardware.90689/#post-695066

Bericht KW12:

- Mo: 14 neue PCs mit #Windows11 aufgebaut, aktualisiert und installiert
- Di: #OPNsense Netzwerkberatung und Proof of Concept für LDAP/Reverse Proxy
- Mi: Benutzermigration der alten auf die 14 neuen #PCs
- Do: #TrueNAS SCALE Server als remote Ziel für Snapshots fertig gestellt. Diverse #3CX Updates und Tickets
- Fr: 2 neue PCs mit #Windows11

Highlight: Auch 14 Kleinrechner lassen sich mit dem #Fahrrad transportieren. Transwiz ist ein geiles Tool: https://www.forensit.com/move-computer.html

Lost my first HDD in my nas
It is under warranty still so hopefully I can get a replacement.
#nas #truenas #homelab #selfhosting

Sometimes I think, maybe I should use TrueNAS, and then I remembered that their C•Suite decided to give the to FreeBSD... the very same operating system and community of developers and engineers who enabled their company to exist from the start, to scale to the level which brought them success and growth and accolades from the OSS and enterprise storage communities alike.

So no, I don't use TrueNAS. Whatever many reasons they and their indolent fanboys push for moving to Linux, and I have heard them all, it's irrelevant. They didn't just bite the hand that feeds, they went straight over to the clown-show makeup meme table and slathered it on; trying so hard to convince everyone including themselves that this betrayal was the Good and Ethical thing to do.

Luckily there are alternatives, and those will get my time, engineering efforts, and fiscal support. One thing to remember: alienated users do not recommend those formerly loved products to their employers, they do not "spread the love" via organic marketing, and perhaps sometimes they dissuade when they would formerly embrace.

Wanted to set up old laptop as a #homelab VM server but didn't want the complexity of #proxmox for my basic needs. #Truenas scale might have been ok except for the need for a dedicated boot device. Dropped on Redhat's "#cockpit machines" today and so far it seems perfect, very easy to spin up new VMs and access them through a polished web UI, as well as manage the host itself. Feel like this project deserves better recognition #linux

Cieszy mię ten rym: "Polak mądr po szkodzie";
Lecz jesli prawda i z tego nas zbodzie,
Nową przypowieść Polak sobie kupi,
Że i przed szkodą, i po szkodzie głupi.

Zapamiętać raz na zawsze - po dodaniu dysków do maszyny wirtualnej wyłączyć je z backupu proxmoxa

Installed the new 4x14TB in Xeon 1220v2, 32gb ram truenas scale NAS, 2x2 mirror vdev, ~23TB usable, seeing ~800MB/ in reads and ~200MB/S in writes. Should I Add a small 1TB SSD mirror VDEV as SLOG to speed up writes? What would you do to better use the insane LAN bandwidth available? #selfhosted #homelab #truenas

Hmm, the latest beta of #TrueNAS Scale has docker support, but not docker compose and that's a huge oversight. Unless I'm missing where to find it?

First attempt to contribute to #proxmox.

I was really annoyed by the amount of logs that pvestatd service is producing at my #truenas instance so I saw that I was not the only one.
https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=957

So I spend some time trying to follow the suggestion of in the bugreport.

https://lists.proxmox.com/pipermail/pve-devel/2025-March/068805.html