Now, before everyone immediately jumps to ‘you’re an idiot, you should NEVER do that, performance will suck, etc’, hear me out.
I have TrueNAS at home and all of my data is contained on it on iSCSI volumes. Out at my sisters house, I have a Poweredge T430, but no TrueNAS. Both environments work well, and while I’d love to have a TrueNAS setup out there, it’s not in the cards right now.
So that being said, I would like to replicate my NVR (BlueIris) recordings out to her place and possibly hers to mine. I could do it using DFSR, but I’ve seen issues with files getting locked, which would cause issues with something like BlueIris, which I’d like to avoid. Other than DFSR, the only way for me to replicate that data from my side to hers is to set up a TrueNAS VM there, with a virtual disk attached to TrueNAS for the data to live on. Replicating her data here could be a little more problematic since her BlueIris is a physical machine with local storage.
This is really only meant to be of use if something catastrophic were to happen at my house like someone break in and wreck my TrueNAS setup and destroy the data, I’d hopefully have something useful preserved to see ‘whodunnit’.
Does anyone see any issues running it as a VM for this particular use case?