TrueNAS Scale - Your New Hypervisor/NAS OS - Setup & Walkthrough

I've been using TrueNAS Core as my main NAS OS for over a year now and I've dabbled with Scale while it was in beta. Now Scale is finally out of beta and ready for the big times.

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0:00 Intro
0:44 TrueNAS Scale
2:23 Installation
4:24 Setup
6:02 Configure Storage
7:48 Shares
11:51 Data Protection
15:08 Virtualization/GPU Passthrough
20:54 Apps/Docker
27:12 Reporting
28:25 Backup configs
29:08 Thoughts on TrueNAS Scale
30:56 Comment of the Week
31:51 Conclusion

[TrueNAS]

Love this! The intro had us buckling over in laughter. Keep up the great work!

[JerrinJames]

This is undoubtedly the best 30 min I spend researching on TrueNAS Scale. Appreciate the effort put into creating such a beautiful video. Felt like leaving a comment since its very hard to find reliable content based on a newly released system. I'm glad you included True charts in this video. Love to see more content on installing and configuring apps like Jellyfin, Vaultwarden, Nextcloud and so on.
Thanks again for keeping us updated.

[manievanniekerk]

I still can't believe the effort that is put into these videos. I absolutely love it, and the amount of help/insight these videos give are tremendous.

[grdnsdg]

This video was helpful in deciding whether to stay with Proxmox or move over the TrueNas Scale to function as a primary hypervisor. I'm new to the hypervisor world and just a hobbyist, not an IT pro. I have struggled in certain areas with Proxmox and the GUI for TrueNas is appealing. Now that I know I can run VMs and Docker as I learn, I think Scale is the right solution. I appreciate the intro!

[TheValueYouBring-rdQrtr]

Even though this video is 2yrs old, within 3 mins of following your steps, I got the "basic" information for setting up a simple NFS I couldn't f'ng get from 8 previous TrueNAS videos I found first.

Your direction is "accurate" and "concise." :-)

Good schitt, guy!!! *Thumbs Up*

[letsgoiowa]

How fortunate this came out right as I started looking into Scale! This is going to be my reference as I set it up sometime this week.

[TrueCharts]

Intro is worth a giggle.
Thanks for the shoutout as well, great intro to the system and glad you showed installing things without changing too many variables the first time (and a *surprise picachu* face afterwards) :-D

Looking forward to future content!

[ThrottleScotty]

Thanks for this video - exactly what I was looking for as I was wanting to move from a ProxMox + TrueNAS Core setup to a TrueNAS Scale only setup. Followed along and had mine up and running in no time. Great work!

[thetoddyincshow]

This was truly a great video. I was looking for a VM/NAS solution and starting to look more on Truenas. This video gave me so much information + the important part of the boot device disk space is "wasted" . Again thanks for a great Video.

[criostasis]

Every time I try something different and want to go back to TNS, I come back to this video as it is an excellent reference guide! That and Lawrence's video about fixing the networking issues.

[tomherbst]

Thanks for the walkthrough on the installation. My next NAS is now up and running totally sourced from the eWaste pile.

[AndrewBernardin]

This explained a LOT for a first-time NASer. Thank you! Was just handed a QNAP TS-851 and have no idea what to do with it but I think upgrading ram to 8gb and going TrueNAS Scale is the way forward.

[gbtgreybeardtech]

Thank you so much for this informative video. Now this is how tech videos should be made. I felt like I spent 32min wisely. Nice accurate information, presented in a way that kept me interested from beginning to the end.😄

[CliffR]

Don't know why, but I've followed a few videos and they never worked. Just followed you and 100% perfect. Thank you so much!

[brettdavis]

Great video! That intro was GOLD. Everyone at iX thanks you for your support!

[tylertwentyeight]

Very helpful video. Used it to get me started making my first nas setup.

[nutso]

Was trying to figure out what to do with my R710 I was given and this is it. Thanks for this video. Very intuitive.

[jastirria]

Scale has potential but still has a lot of growing up to do. Especially where the kubernetes debacle is concerned. Love your videos

[virtualink]

May take a look into this once I get my behemoth built, but for the time-being it will be just a pipe dream. Great video as always.

[Daddy-OH]

Starting at 31:22 your hands come down in sync with your video in the corner. Cheezy little detail i know but i chuckled when i saw it. Thanks for the great video.