Comment on Proxmox vs. TrueNAS Scale
machinin@lemmy.world 8 months agoSo is your TrueNas in a Proxmox VM? Did you try VMs in TrueNas?
I guess I’m trying to see the benefits of VMs in Proxmox versus VMs in TrueNas Scale. My use case is not very complicated, so I’m wondering if I can simplify the setup by just using TrueNas.
TrueNAS isn’t supported as a VM. This doesn’t prevent people from doing it anyway, but it might be relevant for you.
I’ve seen performance comparisons on the web and there is a slight advantage to Proxmox, but nearly insignificant. It really boils down to what you’re more comfortable maintaining.
Note that your can run docker containers for the services you run in your Debian server. Docker will run faster than any VM.
I currently only use proxmox for VMs. Proxmox hosts a TrueNAS VM, TrueNAS controls all but the main (small) drive on the box, proxmox then has access to the other drives through TrueNAS. Kind of neat.
But I think it would indeed be simpler to only have TrueNAS and use it for both nas and VMs. I have no experience with TrueNAS’ VMs.
Thanks for the feedback. More to think about…
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Proxmox has a built in backups system, and also handles LXC containers.
Also proxmox can run ZFS just like TrueNAS, so there is little reason to use TrueNAS instead of Proxmox unless you’re just wanting a pure NAS with nothing else.