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Running TrueNAS scale within Proxmox. Any disadvantages? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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I am having trouble deciding between Proxmox and TrueNAS scale for a homelab on my Dell OptiPlex. I am worried that I'll be limited by TrueNAS at some point, so why not just make it a VM? Will there be any significant performance loss if I just make a TrueNAS VM within Proxmox and give it all the resources? I have a total of 4x 8TB HDDs. One isn't functioning but I'm pretty sure I can fix it, although I don't trust it now.

Or perhaps Proxmox is unnecessary for my use case? Please let me know what you think! I intend to run the following:

PiHole with Unbound DNS Jellyfin Home Assistant with smart devices on separate VLAN Playing around with webhosting, maybe even a small personal Lemmy server. Miniflux RSS Personal documentation solution such as Logseq

I also have a few spare Raspberry Pis and I'm wondering if they could be made into Proxmox nodes...

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

What I have is a TrueNAS scale VM with virtio to pass though a dedicated sata controller.

The dedicated Sata card is the important part. You really don't want to just pass though a drive.

[–] PizzaDeposit@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Why not this https://youtu.be/Hu3t8pcq8O0