vampirebyte
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- Nov 28, 2022
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hello and cheers for this great piece of software!
The forum is full of problems, so we though we could also share a success story: we have repurposed our linux-docker-running-bare-metal development server to a dedicated TrueNAS SCALE machine.
We have read a lot of good explanations here and we bough the missing hardware to make this run smoothly as recommended:
R
The forum is full of problems, so we though we could also share a success story: we have repurposed our linux-docker-running-bare-metal development server to a dedicated TrueNAS SCALE machine.
We have read a lot of good explanations here and we bough the missing hardware to make this run smoothly as recommended:
- replaced embedded Smart Array P440ar RAID controller with an OEM H220 HBA card, reflashed with 20.00.07.00 firmware, but keeping the original BIOS
- added extra ECC RAM, bough sealed really cheap from ebay, from 32 GB to 128 GB DDR4 DIMM 2400 MHz
- bought the recommended StarTech 3-Port M.2 SSD (NGFF) Adapter Card - 1 x PCIe (NVMe) M.2, 2 x SATA III M.2 - PCIe 3.0
- bought 2 boot SSDs, cheapest we found on amazon: Kingston A400, 240 GB, mounted on the extension card and plugged into the onboard Controller
- updated the server to the latest firmware for all components and installed TrueNAS from a stick
- GUI session timeout, it drives me & my colleagues crazy, hope to be made configurable in NAS-113146 (please VOTE)
- LEDs on the front of the SSDs are not working anymore we discuss it on this topic
- Possibility to deploy custom web containers into the kubernetes cluster from gitlab pipelines: since we are a web development company, we need this into our workflow, not sure if we should start our own chart repo/train for our apps or if the Bluefin release will make things better (loosen the restrictions). What about traefik-proxy + Let's Encrypt? Suggestions?
R