Comment on Proxmox vs. TrueNAS Scale
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Their use cases are a bit different, no? Proxmox is a general hypervisor. You can run whatever you want on it. NAS is one workload that could be run on top of Proxmox. TrueNAS is a NAS first solution, hypervisor second. And that’s the overlap with Proxmox. I’d say, think of your core use case:
Apparently people run TrueNAS in a VM on Proxmox and it works fine, it’s even supported by both Proxmox and TrueNAS.
I’ve tested both - the virtualization in TrueNAS is rather limited, so I moved over to Proxmox - I need good VM and Container support, in addition to storage management. I’ll probably go the TrueNAS on Proxmox route once I have real storage capability.
Can you explain how it is limited?
I’m assuming that TrueNas has basic features, and that I only need basic features, so Proxmox is probably overkill for me. What would I be missing if I only used TrueNas for virtualization? Before they talk about backups. It’s there anything else?
Yes, this is my thinking. I mainly need a NAS that will let me use some services. I’m just not sure what I’ll be missing if I forgo Proxmox. I’m assuming it is a lot of advanced settings I don’t need, but other users mentioned backups as a positive for Proxmox.
Can’t say. Personally, I’m running vanilla Ubuntu LTS and rolling my own ZFS, NFS, containers, desktop and so on but “I know what I’m doing.” I hardly see a reason to do TrueNAS outside of UI. With that said I would highly recommend to ensure your data sits on ZFS because it protects it from data corruption.
I think both are on zfs, so that should be good.
I’m definitely a “no clue what I’m doing” user, so GUIs are helpful.
Thanks for the feedback, it’s helpful.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Well fuckin thank you for that concise explanation, because I’ve been planning to build a NAS and Jellyfin box, and have been wondering
tills13@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You definitely want to go the truenas route for a media server.
RenegadeTwister@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I disagree in this case. Other posters are pointing out how Trunas support is aggressive and unhelpful. I also feel like a true hypervisor gives you more flexibility if your needs change later. I run a Jellyfin media server on proxmox, and it’s been rock solid.