I’m currently running a Dell PowerEdge R720XD with 112GB ram and about 70TB worth of drive space.
I’ve been running TrueNAS scale on a vm, with 5 different drives. It’s been running a little strange and want to create a new VM and migrate the drives over.
What’s the best way to do this? Do I have to export anything? Detach?
If someone can point me in the right direction it would be most appreciated. I really don’t want to lose anything.
Thx
That depends how you set it all up.
What Hypervisor?
How are the discs connected ?
How are the discs then presented to the truenas VM ?
What do you mean by that ?
Hyperviser is VMware esxi 6.0 running Truenas scale as a VM.
I have a dell poweredge and powervault attached with 3.5" spinning disk in raid 5 arrays. Storage is added to Truenas then carved up in datasets and shared out.
Truenas VM had a problem with the snapshot and I almost lost everything. I’m just changing the VM a little and want to migrate current storage over to the new VM.
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So you have a raid controller and present virtual discs to truenas. This is no bueno.
The only somewhat safe way is discribed in the resource posted above.
There is an alternative, but most don’t like
It, may apply here…
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well that sucks. I’ll have to research best way to move everything and unraid storage then rebuild truenas for zfs.
Not sure I have enough storage to hold everything in transit, but we’ll see.
Thank you VERY much for responding and not just telling me I’m an idiot. LOL
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Ty for replying.