Comment on What should I replace the GTX 1080s in my server with?
coolie4@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’ve never used TrueNAS and don’t know how your infrastructure is set up, so I have no idea how difficult migration would be, but switching to a different OS that supports your cards would be free.
Could look into Incus or Proxmox.
njordomir@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’ve considered Proxmox, and know a few people who use it, but I think the added features, complexity, learning something new, might be too much for me right now. There’s a lot going on in my life, in my family and in my country and my human operating system is struggling to free up resources. Long term though, this is the goal. I don’t know if I have the drives lying around to build a new machine and migrate everything at the moment anyway. If I recall correctly, Proxmox doesn’t use ZFS. Migrating truenas is theoretically as easy as backing up my config file and password seeds and reinstalling, it seems to just pick up the hardware on the next boot. I’m just not sure if I have options outside the typical gamer cards like RTX.
coolie4@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Proxmox or Incus can use ZFS, but i doubt you’d be able to directly move your container datasets from TrueNAS. You’d most likely have to rebuild the containers and/or move application configs/dbs. If you keep static data in datasets (your video media for instance), those will transfer over fine.
Proxmox might be overkill especially if you’re not using high availability features. I only use it on one of my machines because switching is too much hassle, but every new system I set up uses Incus on top of regular Debian.
For a big migration, you can use a cheap VPS for compute + Backblaze for a ton of cheap storage to help. For instance you could install TrueNAS on the VPS, move all your stuff over to the cloud temporarily, wipe your local hardware and install Incus, then move your containers back to your hardware. The other option is to do the opposite and set up the new environment in the cloud, then when its setup, wipe your local and move your new OS to on-prem.
But yeah this would be a time/research investment, rather than the monetary investment of just upgrading your cards.