Is TrueNAS Scale the NAS Upgrade I Never Knew I Needed? (OMV User Edition)

so welcome to techn Dad life and my name is Jeff and so today what we're going to be doing is looking at true nef core basically installation and setup from a open media Vault users perspective now if you like this video make sure you like And subscribe and hit that notification button so now on first uh glance it seems silly to compare true Ness uh scale to open media vault but actually they are pretty similar so basically the same maintainer who maintained tress core before they added the scale is the person who started open mediev VA and so why he left true Ness was because they would not switch to lenux and so he actually started open medial as a lenux version of true Ness now 10 years later about I don't know exactly how long true core which is based on lenux and is also based on Debian just like open V Vault uh is now on the scene so let's see how they're similar and different and which one is right for you so if we just look at their web pages here we see true Nas scale is actually geared more towards uh business user so so scale up or out so basically they're talking multiple nodes of true nass to actually deploy and actually it says that a little longer or a little farther down here single node or cluster hybrid coud Enterprise Support options now if we go to open media vaults uh there things are a little more simple so basically Runs Out of the Box web administrator and sort of the normal server stuff now if we go to download tras scale basically here under options or requirements I should say has to have a dual core 64-bit CPU 8 GB of RAM 16 recommended 16 GB boot device two identical sized devices a network part and doesn't require Hardware braid so this is a AMD or Intel based system it does not support arm if we go to the open Medi Vault downloads it immediately takes us to the AMD 64 or Intel 64 downloads but if you're an arm fan there is hope for you so if we go to omv extras. org there's actually an install script that you can basically install it on any armed device and that is right here there we go we can see this line where it says open me EV all extras facilitates the installation of open medol raspberry pies Arman and single board computers and 32bit and x86 platforms so this script will help install open mediev VA on a ARM device so arm plus x86 versus true Nas scale just x86 so of course next you need to download true Nas scale or open media Vault and so the one I like using is etcher or if you're more uh savy vent toy and so I actually have a ventoy uh USB drive in there and so ventoy basically you just copy as many isos as you can fit on your USB drive and you can boot from any which one of those so here we're installing uh trest scale now the interesting part of this is even though it's based on Debian they don't use a rebranded Debian installer uh like everybody else they use their own custom installer and here we want to just pick install and then highlight the dis you want to use and fresh install and we're going to format the boot Drive then proceed with installation set an administrator and then put in our password and then create swap partition and then it's time for a cup of coffee so now we need to take out our USB drive and then we can reboot and then scroll down to three reboots hit enter and then time for another cup of coffee okay boot to True N scale and there it's booting okay so now it's rebooted and so for us all we are concerned with right now is the IP address to log into the web portal but if you're having problems you can see down below we have different options so we can configure interfaces settings uh change the administrator password reset configuration uh get to the Shell lenux Shell reboot or shut down but here we just want to log into 242 so to log in true Nas scale we need to put in admin and then our password that we put in as we were setting it up click login and that takes us straight to the dashboard and here you can see I have 16 gigs of memory we have the network device we can check for updates and over on this side we can see we have a four core CPU n5105 2 GHz using you zero usage we can check for updates let's do that first since that's front and center and then it says no updates available so why does it say check for updates if there's no updates available pretty interesting okay and so on the dashboard you can configure what's on here so uh here are the system widgets and it can show us here let's do that that's our different we have two uh Network ports on this we'll put both of those and we don't want help because we're men click save and there you can go so pretty basic setup for the dashboard and now on open Med VA you can change actually quite a few other things for your dashboard but let's just move on so going down to storage we need to create a pool and so we'll call this Olympic get it it's a Olympic pool it's going to be olympic size pool and we don't want encryption and we're going to click next and our layout is going to be a mirror because we just have two drives and with number devs speed does I think that's all okay oh these are all optional so let's skip actually these save and go to review create pool confirm continue so I'm going to do a little checking actually in the bias of this computer see if we messed up something there okay and so just little Google through there uh I checked and it seems because I reused those thiss that we need to erase them because it doesn't automatically erase them uh which it does actually on open media all so okay so we are back we erased those discs let's see if we can create a pool now okay so I guess when you're using true Nash you need to make sure your discs are completely empty erased of everything before starting uh the pools actually got set up very quickly just a few minutes now on open medial all we have to do is go down the side here in order and let's see if that's the same thing we can do here so we got Olympic grammar let's click create pool let's see what happens over there oh it's the same thing uh they had a different wizard before that actually I liked better than this uh they had that on tress core I think it was similar or simpler let's see what all these things do expand pool nope export disconnect manage devices and so looks like the default data set is fine so we'll click shares We'll add a window share which I think it's too early because I think we need a path okay so here so let's add data set and path name so let's type in media and then inherit everything and then save so let's see what happens okay so now we have a media folder under our Olympic and so basically I think this is so data set would be the dis so that would be then media would be the share yeah the folder that you would then share so let's do that okay so let's try window share again so we don't want to turn that on configure services so basically it's work group that's good so let's cancel that uh go back to shares add there's our Olympic go down one there's our media folder so that's what we want media blah blah blah okay save gu we can enable it oh ours is a going to be just on my home network so we're going to add all items there now if you're exposing this to the internet uh don't do this but right now I'm just trying to see how to figure out how to do this and oh interesting so even though I didn't click add it it is running and so data protection so our snapshots replication smart test for our dis so we're not going to do that now networking everything looks good there credentials if we want to add a user let's do that Jeff so we have to do a password user ID is 3,000 auxiliary groups we're going to add that to root we want a home directory let's do that it's going to be Olympic and then we click save we're going to cancel that so we're going to skip the home directory thing oh yeah yeah here we go so we pick that and then create new home directory save okay good so we now have root admin and Jeff so let's check to see if that share is available on our local network now and so there we have our true Ness so let's double click that oh connection fail connect as so we have to change our username and password and then click connect and there's our media folder and let's see okay let's create a folder oh we can't write to the folder now okay so we just needed to change our data set and so and now we have read WR access and let's just delete that delete yeah yes okay perfect and so let's see oh so now we're down to virtualization so let's add a virtual machine guest operating system Linux name Debian description Debian so even though we couldn't in said it couldn't install it we did but now we're having an error in the installation of Debian so we're going to skip that right now but we can do that so apps and so let's see so we have new and updated apps is there any way oh six apps available how do we show all the apps oh there we go so we have to click up refresh apps there and basically there they are now uh Debian use is kuber netics instead of Docker so it's a little more difficult to install things but they have seem to have the general thing things that most people have or need and if you want to install more uh apps you can install true charts uh which will add hundreds of more things and so we're not going to do that right now but it's there then we have reporting and this is actually much prettier than open media ball is and so here we have CPU and disk all sarch the information there then we can do memory Network system and ZFS and then under system we have there's our updates general which tells us about true Nas looks like and advanced console configuration kernel Chrome jobs boot tells us something about the boot environment oh scrub boot pool boot pool status and oh it's interesting you can't go back there huh okay and then we have services and then we have shell so the shell environment and alerts so what do I think of true N scale and so basically it is definitely different than open Medi VA it in some parts it doesn't make as much sense but maybe I'm just used to open Med VA but I think what I'm going to do is try this a little more and see if I can get a better hang of it cuz they actually use sort of different words here to do different things like data sets and they have them in sort of a different order so open Med VA has everything sort of logically listed down where this one sometimes not so logically like things are in different spots than you would think they would be but it's actually better than true Ness core so when I tried that a few years ago it was completely Bonkers how things were so they've definitely try to simplify it and make it more sense so if is this right for you well if you uh have a Raspberry Pi the answer is no because it does not support arm processors so I bet that in the future they will start supporting arm processors because the whole industry is starting to move that way so they will expand to that just not right now maybe in a year or two so we'll have to come back and do a follow-up video when they uh do do that and I'll say I Told You So if you just have a x86 computer then this is perfect you can use this just as it is it's actually works much better if you have lots of discs uh because you can create pools meal again if you have a simple system that's great for that because you can do it all on one disc uh you can do that on true Nas core or scale but it is complicated and if you're really interested in learning how to do that having tress all on one dis uh put a comment down below that you want to do that or actually put a comment down below if you like open Medi VA or true Nas better that's it for today hope you find this helpful make sure you like And subscribe and we'll see you next time [Music] byebye

Channel: Techno Dad Life

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Keywords: techno dad life, home server, media server, home media server, truenas, truenas scale, openmediavault, omv

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Length: 19min 37sec (1177 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 15 2024