So I thought would get a general opinion to see what others say, I’m currently on the fence because I haven’t had time to test TrueNAS Scale/CE VM’s/Containers/LXC
My current situation is I have a TrueNAS Core server that I’m planning to upgrade to TrueNAS CE later on when I get the time. But right now its a low priority compared to my hypervisor machines I’m running.
Currently I am running 2 Proxmox VE’s with ZFS as its base, one on a old supermicro atom board with 8gig of ecc ram and another on a free old Dell Xeon machine with 16gig of regular ram.
I’ve recently bought some new components to upgrade the old atom machine so I can consolidate it all into one hypervisor machine:
- ASRock - B650D4U-2L2T/BCM
- AMD Ryzen 5 9600X
- 2x Micron 32GB (1x32GB), PC5-38400 (4800MHz) ECC DDR5 UDIMM
Currently amongst the hypervisors, I’m running on them the following VM’s/LXC:
- VM: pfSense
- VM: home assistant OS
- LCX: docker running a few containers.
- I’m planning on implementing frigate NVR outside of home assistant OS as well and using it for home security, currently just trialing it under HAOS.
These are the ones that will work all the time even under UPS backup if the power goes out. So will be of the highest uptime (obviously not enterprise uptime) but for home use high enough.
The main TrueNAS server with all the spinning rust will automatically shutdown as soon as there is a power outage due to its power consumption instead of letting it draining the UPS.
The plan is to have the data on the high up time hypervisor machine backed up to the main TrueNAS server as well when it can.
The thing I don’t like about Proxmox is the ZFS dataset management or the lack of via the web UI. I get it, its purely a hypervisor but still hypervisors store data and having better data management would be a good thing.
I like the way TrueNAS does it, whilst I’m not opposed to doing dataset management via the command line in proxmox, I just would prefer a web interface due to the lack of time in my life.
But I’m wondering what peoples take would be on using TrueNAS CE to be the hypervisor vs Proxmox ?
For the time being I can stick to Proxmox but with the upcoming TrueNAS CE 25.10 would it be a worthy contender to be a hypervisor over Proxmox with its better NAS/ZFS goodness ?
Does any of IXSystem enterprise clients actually use the VM’s/Containers on TrueNAS I wonder ?