Hello all. I have been running FreeNAS in my homelab/homeserver environment since version 9 and eventually upgraded up to TrueNAS Core which is what I am currently running. The verision is 13.0 U6.7. I am running this on a Dell R510 with 12 drifves (2 vdevs each a RAIDZ2) and the HBA flashed to IT mode. OS is on dual USB mirror and I have an Intel X510-DA2 Dual SFP+ Card installed for network communication. I only use this as a NAS serving SMB shares and occasionally some ISCSI stuff. No VMs, Jails, Apps, etc. I want to upgrade up to TrueNAS 24.04 so that I can then jump to the most current version.
I have read through the migration prep documentation as well as the migration steps and watched a few videos on the process. From everything I have researched, there shouldn’t be any reason why I can’t move my R510 up to this version. I just wanted to check here to see if anyone else in a similar situation with an R510 upgraded. If so, was everything more or less smooth or did you run into any issues. Thank you for help.
Don’t have that hardware, but if it can run Linux, should be just fine. Follow the prep docs. Main thing is kill off any jails/plugins first, they can’t migrate. Also the network will be a little unusual in Scale but should work fine (interface names etc. might change). I think there were a few words about making your primary interface DHCP before the migration, it’s all in there.
Basically, make your Core box really lazy, only keeping network shares, and it should be a cakewalk. My machine rebooted probably 2 or 3 times during it, I had a pool go offline in the first boot of Scale which I just had to click import and it fixed it permanently, but otherwise it was smooth with no data loss.
Preparation is key here. You have the right idea since it is a big jump from *BSD to Linux. I did the same thing, went from the latest Core to 24.04 then straight to Fangtooth. It survived.
*Also have an HBA for my storage in IT mode, and a Mellanox cx3 fiber 10g for the network. Shouldn’t be a problem.
Excellent. Thank you afrosheen. Yea I have the entire pool backed up. I don’t run any plugins, jails, vms, etc. It basically functions as a NAS serving SMB shares and thats it. I have it integrated into an AD Domain but thats about the only other thing that is configured on it right now.
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