TrueNAS CORE Setup Guide for Beginners

Today we setup and configure from the ground up a Dell R720XD on TrueNAS Core with 12 10TB drives. I'm taking you step-by-step along the way as we create a high performance ZFS Pool, user accounts, setup and map SMB shares, create and map NFS shares, tune 40GbE networking, migrate from SCALE to CORE and check for any lingering data corruption in our ZFS pool pre- version 2.2.1 with a few commands.

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Chapters
0:00 TrueNAS Core Setup
2:18 How to Install TrueNAS Core
5:16 Setup High Performance ZFS Pool
8:55 TrueNAS Users and Groups
10:05 Setup TrueNAS SMB Share
11:40 How to Access Windows Network Share TrueNAS
13:15 Create windows Shared Drive
14:02 Windows Network Share Performance ZFS
16:18 TrueNAS 40GbE Network
17:00 Migrate from TrueNAS Scale to Core
17:23 TrueNAS ssh
18:08 TrueNAS NFS Share
19:15 How to Rsync Data
23:13 Check ZFS for Data Corruption
24:55 Conclusion

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[joshuaflowers]

it says for beginers and i can barely understand a word he's saying. now i know how my dad feels when i talk computers to him.

[barndweller]

Thank You for the Video. Your information we right one, I had never done on of these before. It took me a while to play your video over and over again and sometimes I had to count how many lines you went down because at least for me the video was fuzzy. It worked so I am happy THANK YOU!

[excdnforces]

This is perfect, i have a project coming up for family and i need to repurpose a old pc with a bunch of drives and turn it into a trunas

[eugeni_cat]

‼Good job‼ We follow you closely 🔎from Barcelona (Spain) - Kind regards 😎

[andymok]

Nice. I have had TrueNAS Core running for about 2 years now. My main unit is on a Supermicro MB and SC386 chassis. my backup is on a ATOM based supermicro MB with a silverstone case. I was able to convert my only x86 based QNAP to my off-line archive TrueNAS system. The only useful thing for a QNAP NAS to do. Once a very good NAS, but with all of their security issues and their insane downtime when doing firmware updates. I have all RaidZ2 in a single vdev and redundancy is my main requirement. My boot pools are a mirrored on all 3 systems. I have a 27U server rack in the den of my condo. Two systems running Proxmox. One for main VM based stuff and a small micro PC providing services for Home Assistant. Just moved my cable modem and pfSense FW to the rack as well. It being a open rack has it challenges with keeping the wiring neat. Once in a while checking in on Scale, but for what I need Core is still better suited and I run my VM and containers on Proxmox. I switched to fiber links between my switches except for one of them.

[dpnmodi]

Incredibly clear and useful - thank you!

[SyberPrepper]

This is a very helpful video and well explained. Thank you. I should be getting an R730XD in the next few weeks and looking forward to going from there.

[freddyhardware]

Thanks for the straight forward instructions. I've been playing around with PCs and simple networking for a number of years now mostly using Windows. I've been given a Dell PowerEdge R210 II last month and through a chance buy, I got a Dell PowerEdge T410 for $50 on marketplace and found a reseller that supplied me with six 6TB Enterprise SAS drives.

Within a month, I went from no servers to having three (R210 II, R620, T410) in a 18RU Server Rack. Reading and watching a lot of videos on Open Systems like this one and I'm hooked.

To those who are worried about power draw, the place I live in have solar. I'm also single (divorced) and have a noise cancelling headphone🙂

[FillingTheGap]

DUDE! This video is so helpful. I'm moving from WD Cloud to TrueNAS Core thanks to this. Once I saw you mount NFS, I was like yup, WD has that and wham bam transfer at full speed rather then copying a pasting SMB shares though a server which would not be learning how to do it right. Jurassic Park 3D Blu Ray rip in progress! Looks great on Meta Quest 3, I WIFI 3D videos from SMB, no compression. hehe! Thanks again!

[SeanDevonshire]

15:00 - "Now, How fast ....are we goin go? .. We're gona move some packets.... Ohh yeahh, we're gona move some packets 😂😂👌 Thanks for your guide mate, you've helped lay the foundation for a new project

[vsucuny]

video was very good and useful. Learnt a lot. Can you make the screen or fonts bigger because it was hard to see.

[TheNpcNoob]

Important to note, you will need to flash your inbuilt Dell RAID card to IT mode, for drives to show up.

[produKtNZ]

can't find where to modify an acl in truenas core as its either not available or has been moved.
help?

[VanMoon]

I have two TN servers, and I need to migrate the old one to the new one. I was with you all the way until mounting the Share for NFS via the CLI (opened through the GUI console of the new server, mounting the share from the old server onto the new server.); when I did, I got the error: "PORT mapper failure: unable to send." Looking around on the internet, there doesn't seem to be anything dealing with that specifically, there are "unable to receive answers", and RPC config answers.

[hcuofpn]

I'm running a HP microserver gen8 with Truenas scale on ssd and four hard drives as a raidz1.

[madhumuppala]

Thanks for the great details. Quick question. Why you decided to use TureNAS Core instead of TrueNAS Scale?

[doradeutsch]

Interesting video! But why don´t you use zfs snapshot / zfs send for the data migration?

[kirbymajer]

Thank you for the detailed setup video. I followed it hoping to turn an old Dell into a NAS but the IP showing was an internal IP 10.0.0.20. What did I do wrong???

[Branix_better]

The green thing at the start, what is that

[Xx_TurTix_xX]

as someone who just want to set up my own cloud for me and my family to uplode and dowload photoes and videoes to shere and have private i dident understand anything in the intro. why come its so hard to get a simple video explaining how to do such thing?