Going from FreeNAS to TrueNAS-Scale

TrueNAS General
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Hello everyone,

I’ve inherited an old storage server running FreeNAS with FreeBSD 11. I would like to install TrueNAS Scale on it. Are there any gotcha’s I should be aware of?

Thanks!

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If you are planning on upgrading rather than a fresh setup on the hardware you will need to upgrade to12.0-U8.1 and then 13.0-U6.1 before migrating to SCALE. Before migrating I would advise reading the migration guide, this link contains the migration article links:

If you are doing a fresh install I’d recommend reviewing the HW guide:

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Thanks @ABain ! I think a fresh install would be easier. If I did that, would the UI pick up the ZFS datasets and allow me to reconfigure NFS?

Thanks!

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I’d hope so, but can’t guarantee it. Not tested doing that from such an early version. Someone else may have tried this and might be able to confirm.