I have since moved on from using this switch to a Brocade ICX6610, but when I first started learning and homelabbing I bought a couple Cisco routers and switches. First I was using a Catalyst 3560G. Eventually I got a Cisco WS-C3750X, both because I wanted something with PoE but…
For my local backups, I backup my virtual machines using Proxmox Backup Server to my TrueNAS device. While this is not the officially supported, it has worked well for me so far. The device I use for this is an Udoo x86 device which has worked perfectly for it. This…
NFS Share First we will set up the NFS shares from our TrueNAS Scale server. Configuration on the NFS server's side will depend on what you are using as a server. Under TrueNAS it's under Shares Unix (NFS) Shares. Hit the Add button and select the…
This will be more of an overview of how to set up the network, since this can vary so much depending on what network equipment you are running. In my case I'm running a Brocade ICX 6610 switch and an OPNsense firewall. There are a total of 4…
Proxmox Install First we will want to install the Proxmox host. I'm going to assume you have already done this, but you'll want to download Proxmox and put it on a flash drive using Rufus. To start, we want to only have the NIC plugged in…