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TrueNas - Upgrading my Hardkernel Odroid H2: Finding the Right Balance Between NVMe and SATA Storage

TrueNas - Upgrading my Hardkernel Odroid H2: Finding the Right Balance Between NVMe and SATA Storage

In my previous blog post, I discussed upgrading my Hardkernel Odroid H2 with four NVMe drives, pushing the limits of what was considered possible. This time, I want to share my final storage configuration and why I decided to mix NVMe and traditional spinning disks instead of going all-in on

TrueNas - Upgrading my Hardkernel Odroid H2 with 4 NVMe Drives - Making the actually impossible possible

TrueNas - Upgrading my Hardkernel Odroid H2 with 4 NVMe Drives - Making the actually impossible possible

How I Discovered This Upgrade While I was looking for new NAS options, I ended up browsing Hardkernel’s product website. I saw that the new H4 Plus now offers more SATA ports, and since its compact size is perfect for me, it seemed like the best option. As I

Kolla-Ansible Cinder Containers unhealthy

Kolla-Ansible Cinder Containers unhealthy

I recently replaced all 3 control nodes in my OpenStack cluster and once I replaced the last control node, all of a sudden three of the four Cinder containers became unhealty. Looking at the logs of the cinder_api container revealed the following error: 2023-05-30 21:31:36.350636 Timeout

Failed to replace a failed disk in TrueNAS Scale - device busy

Failed to replace a failed disk in TrueNAS Scale - device busy

Yes, hard disks do break from time to time. But thanks to ZFS and RAIDZ-1, there is no reason to panic. Or is there? Interestingly the disk was not reported by ZFS to be broken but there was a message in the WebUI indicating that something is wrong. So I

How to incredibly increase TrueNAS VM NIC throughput

How to incredibly increase TrueNAS VM NIC throughput

I recently replaced my favourite OmniOS VM in my HomeLab with TrueNAS Core. Main reason for this was that I wanted to play around with the very cool VAAI features available in TrueNAS Core. I used VAAI ages ago with a NetApp system and I really liked the fact that

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