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TrueNas - Upgrade to Electric Eel (24.10)- Migrating TrueCharts to Docker

TrueNas - Upgrade to Electric Eel (24.10)- Migrating TrueCharts to Docker

With the release of TrueNAS SCALE 24.10 “Electric Eel”, iXsystems introduced a major architectural change: Kubernetes support for apps has been dropped in favor of a native Docker-based system. If you're like me and have been running plenty of TrueCharts apps—which are built entirely on Kubernetes—

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

Velero backup to TrueNAS S3 with free Let's Encrypt certificate

Velero backup to TrueNAS S3 with free Let's Encrypt certificate

In one of my previous blogposts, I explained how to install and configure Velero with TrueNAS as an S3 storage backend. My whole blogpost was focused on running everything on the local network. Since I have my K8s cluster running on a VPS I needed to find a way to

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

How to install and setup TrueNAS Scale or how I replaced my two old Odroid HC2 by a single Odroid H2

How to install and setup TrueNAS Scale or how I replaced my two old Odroid HC2 by a single Odroid H2

It was finally time to replace my two old Odroid HC2s with something newer. I had them both running with a 3.5 inch 2TB hard drive each and they ran really well for a long time. But what never really worked well was ZFS. Who does not know ZFS,

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