To run ESXi with TrueNAS Scale or Core?
To run ESXi with TrueNAS Scale or Core?
I'm considering running ESXi on bare metal and then virtualising TrueNAS am wondering if this is the best platform if you want to have the most job opportunities while having all the home server fun.
I want to run my own cloud so I will be using NextCloud and also a media streaming platform to the TV.
Since I'll be using ZFS storage, how will I know whether to run a VM on ESXi or on TrueNAS?
Would use XCP-ng instead of ESXi?
There may be some other options or things I've missed. Thanks!
If you're not going to use the features of Scale that Core not has, i'd suggest you'd pick Core. Perfomance wise it's better in almost all the basic Truenas tasks, untill you try to utilize the more advanced features/plugins.
1After playing with Kubernetes on TrueNAS SCALE for a while, I also recommend against using it. It's incredibly unstable, doesn't support standard deployment functions (e.g. Helm) out of the box, and the slightest mistake with stopping/starting services will cause the Kube API to break. Much better to run a Docker swarm or spin your own k8s cluster with something like kubespray.
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Just install truenas scale on bare metal. Then side install proxmox on it (since scale is just Debian). You can have zfs having direct access to the disks and have VMs, LXC or Containers running on it.
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