Hello,
I was wondering what is considered the best way (most reliable) for hosting a NAS on Proxmox.
- Running a NAS oriented VM like Truenas with HDD's passed through as raw disks. Let Proxmox handle the SMART readings and expose shares on a virtual bridge network that services (LXC) on the same physical server bind to?
- Running an LXC (Turnkey fileserver or one with Cockpit and plugins) with a bind mount to a zpool on the host?
- Creating shares on the host itself.
I tried running Truenas Scale bare metal, but found it a waste of resources on a dual scalable CPU server. I also don't like Docker containers. First one I spun up after a fresh install of Electric Eel gave me a bunch of errors. It's like CasaOS on top of a NAS, except that with CasaOS at least NPM worked right of the bat. I do like Truenas for what it was designed to do. Being a NAS and being very good at it. I read some posts that passing HDD's to Truenas virtualized without a HBA card isn't such a good idea. And I don't want to find out the hard way. I'm also worried that Truenas' ZFS on top of Proxmox's ZFS isn't a smart move either.
Basicly I want Proxmox but with reliable and secure NAS capabilities.
Advice is welcome.
I was wondering what is considered the best way (most reliable) for hosting a NAS on Proxmox.
- Running a NAS oriented VM like Truenas with HDD's passed through as raw disks. Let Proxmox handle the SMART readings and expose shares on a virtual bridge network that services (LXC) on the same physical server bind to?
- Running an LXC (Turnkey fileserver or one with Cockpit and plugins) with a bind mount to a zpool on the host?
- Creating shares on the host itself.
I tried running Truenas Scale bare metal, but found it a waste of resources on a dual scalable CPU server. I also don't like Docker containers. First one I spun up after a fresh install of Electric Eel gave me a bunch of errors. It's like CasaOS on top of a NAS, except that with CasaOS at least NPM worked right of the bat. I do like Truenas for what it was designed to do. Being a NAS and being very good at it. I read some posts that passing HDD's to Truenas virtualized without a HBA card isn't such a good idea. And I don't want to find out the hard way. I'm also worried that Truenas' ZFS on top of Proxmox's ZFS isn't a smart move either.
Basicly I want Proxmox but with reliable and secure NAS capabilities.
Advice is welcome.