Servers

I began by creating a VM and adding a nfs share however my first attempt I installed Docker with the Ubuntu installer this lead to a wide range of problems so justed deleted the VM and started again. On my next attempt I made sure to only install docker after using apt install. I managed to get Portainer to work first try and then just had to move my old containers off my PC, this was not to bad as i just moved the files to the network share and then translated the compose files to the Portainer container options (I later found out that i could do it with docker compose files and switched most of them to that).

To be able to use ZFS on my planed TrueNAS VM i first had to pass through the six drives i would be using in my pool (I chose to do 6 drives per vdev with RAIDZ2). Luckily i had already flashed the drive controller so all i had to do was a few bios settings and then the actual pass through this all went without issue and a special thanks to TechHut for his very useful guide (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkK-9_-2oko&t=310s).

The install for TrueNAS was very simple as it was something i had practiced multiple times as a VM on my PC to mess around with smb shares. I decided to install scale as the choice between core and scale seemed very easy for me as i felt that while core was a small bit faster scale had a far more promising future and had plenty of people working to improve its speed. ...

For christmas 2023 i got a second hand R720 from ebay i cost around £150 it has: 2 E5-2690 v2s for a total of 20 cores at 3 GHz; 256gb of ram; duel 10gig sfp+ ports; and 16x900gb 2.5" sas hdds (However only 2 drive sleds). My plan for this server was to use proxmox to build an environment that gave me space to run some useful services as well as mess around with new software. ...