TrueNAS Scale Virtualization Features and How To Get Started Building VM's

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⏱️ Time Stamps ⏱️
00:00 TrueNAS Scale Hypervisor (add timestamp for demo)
01:04 Working Features
03:00 VM Bridge Issue
04:51 Missing Features
07:24 How To Build A VM
10:48 VM Management
11:52 Cloning Vitrual Machines
12:32 VM Zvol Management
13:13 Device Management
13:48 VM Snapshots

#TrueNAS #NAS #virtualization

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⏱ Time Stamps ⏱
00:00 ▶ TrueNAS Scale Hypervisor (add timestamp for demo)
01:04 ▶ Working Features
03:00 ▶ VM Bridge Issue
04:51 ▶ Missing Features
07:24 ▶ How To Build A VM
10:48 ▶ VM Management
11:52 ▶ Cloning Vitrual Machines
12:32 ▶ VM Zvol Management
13:13 ▶ Device Management
13:48 ▶ VM Snapshots

[TrueNAS]

As usual, Tom, fantastic video!

We can't wait to show you and the community some exciting things that we are cooking up for 2023!

Cheers!

[openappse]

Just want to thank you for your unique commitment to the industry. We need more like you.

[veritanuda]

Just FYI the limitations in features are not part of KVM it can do both clustering and backing up of VMs. I am guessing who ever is working out the logic for the GUI hasn't figured out how to present that yet. But it is only a matter of time.

As to VMs not accessing the host by default, that is definitely a feature, not a bug. As you alluded usually it is a separate VM and NAS and would always have some sort of credentials certificates between them. To access and NAS share though the VM you should just add the local share the VMs pool instead. It would be redundant to rely on networking protocols when you access the raw dataset locally anyway.

Good video though and I am happy to see Scale coming on with leaps and bounds. Cheers

[stevmoon]

To have your virtual machine talk to the host is to configure a bridge on your network adapter. 20Gb/s on the virtual interface should be plenty of speed for your VM to communicate to the host.

[vpoint]

Well, thanks for convincing me this is exactly what I want for my setup! Its not too "fluffy" with features I do not need at my scale but gets the job done.

[nathanielescudero]

Thanks for producing the best vids about truenas scale that I've seen. If I have one wish it would be to drill down more for us enthusiastic newbs who need a more step by step guide and explanations of all the features that you (and many YouTubers) skim over assuming prior knowledge. Of course you may not want to bore the already familiar but tutorial videos for beginners would be great. For example setup VM, Different use cases for clone, snapshot and replication. Off-site backups?
A friend and I are trying to make 2 server to run VM game servers, one at each site. We'd like to build in some data resilience. We also hit the snag of the host/VM visibility so a guide for the work around would be great.
Sorry for the big wish list but we hope you'll be our teacher on this. :)

[terrysimons]

They're using qemu under the hood, and qemu requires a tun/tap interface to interact with the host, and because of that, it's required to bridge that interface to any networks that might be natively on the host. TrueNAS probably needs to build some infrastructure around their qemu support to enable this to work smoothly.

[ryzenforce]

Don't forget that TrusNAS scale is (announced) an hyperconverged virtualization platform (like HP Simplivity, Nutanix, etc) but also offer the other stuff like file sharing (NAS) and application hosting all in one box with no licensing. What I want to see is how to put those TrusNAS scale in cluster. Now let's watch the video.. ;-P

[DiStickStoffMonoxid]

hey tom, thanks for that video :) another note on truenas scale that might be of interest for anyone: it seems like power saving options do not work very well if you transfer your installation to a different system (mainboard / cpu upgrade). i did have to reinstall the system and restore config to get all cpu c-states to work etc. just a heads up :)

[NickF]

Hey I was featured in the video that’s my thread ❤❤❤

[ThineHolyBacon]

I've tried to think of usecases where it makes sense to run a VM on the NAS, and my best use casse really is A) Very small 1-25 employee businesses that only need a basic DC + File share, or B) Read-only DC/DNS for a remote site (and it's offsite storage), or C) A jump client to be able to perform management on some of the other infrastructure.

Of course there are other strategies, but I know clients for some of the sites I help manage that would sufficiently run, or run better with, the VM running directly on the box that hosts a more robust storage box vs Storage + Vm host + networking to make that work well.

[nyccontrabass]

Man, I understood very few of the technical terms you used. I’m such a beginner.

[melchorcarino]

VM access to Internet over bridge (IP with TCP Port Aliases ) or NAT is essential for me. Its better to develop websites on isolated environment before deploying it to the Server. I'm currently developing Multiple Websites with various versions and brands of Database and Host.

[rimsoned]

I would love a discussion video about the clustering abilities of truenas scale

[brandonmartino]

the networking issues stems from a similar sriov pcie device problem with net ROM options and what is known as nic promiscuous mode. Not all nic(Netwrok Cards) support this mode, with short in short can support vlan bridge traffic to host. simalr with dockers and mac_vlan network setps where host traffic and docker traffic for "security" are designed as such. But i agree there should be a checkbox to software or have host traffic accessible without the need of passing a nic card to the VM.

[pkt]

So this will probably be my move when rebuilding my home setup. I have 2 optical drives I need to attach to my system.

[ewenchan]

Was just (finally) getting around to testing the virtualisation functionality in TrueNAS and I didn't realise that the TrueNAS host itself CANNOT run in headless mode, and that it NEEDS a GPU.

That's such a bummer.

[questionablecommands]

Using the VM feature in TrueNAS seems like the ideal place to fire up a PXE boot/provisioning server like Foreman or MASS.

[pepeshopping]

Still staying with ESXi after testing Proxmox and Truenas scale.

May convert my Tryenas Core systems to Scale, but don’t have any reason just yet.