moving from truenas core to truenas vm on proxmox

[idkpc]

i am moving my home server form truenas server to a proxmox server with a truenas vm but idk how to move all the data off the old server to the new.

i think i can just take the config file and drives from the old server pass through the drives to the vm and load the config file and that will work

but again i don't know every time i google this i get answers so things similar on what im trying to do but exact

 

so plz let me know if just passing the drive to the vm and loading the config file or if the is a better way

[LIGISTX]

3 minutes ago, idkpc said:

i am moving my home server form truenas server to a proxmox server with a truenas vm but idk how to move all the data off the old server to the new.

i think i can just take the config file and drives from the old server pass through the drives to the vm and load the config file and that will work

but again i don't know every time i google this i get answers so things similar on what im trying to do but exact

 

so plz let me know if just passing the drive to the vm and loading the config file or if the is a better way

Yes. That will work. But, I would highly recommend getting a SAS RAID card flashed to IT mode, use SAS to SATA cables, and pass that card through to the VM, instead of passing the drives through. You can just pass the drives through, but it’s sort of “not the best way” of doing it. But it’ll work, many have done it. 
 

And yes, just load the config and it’ll be fine. Just make sure you load the config into the same version of truenas. Theoretically it wouldn’t matter (unless your going from major version to major version or from core to scale), but just to reduce possible issues I would fully update your current bare metal box to 12….. uh, what is the newest? I’m on my phone, but off the top of my head I remember like 12.3u7? Anyways, update, confirm everything works as expected, then set up proxmox, spin up a truenas VM with the same version, pass the drives through, load config, profit. 

[AbydosOne]

What @LIGISTX said is about what I did when I tested my TrueNAS box in a Proxmox VM. If you pass the HBA ("RAID card without RAID") through to the VM, it should work perfectly. I assume Proxmox drive passthrough is essentially a block device; if so, ZFS should pick up on the array and just work also.

[idkpc]

thank you both so much this helped a lot

[idkpc]

On 6/24/2022 at 5:48 PM, LIGISTX said:

Yes. That will work. But, I would highly recommend getting a SAS RAID card flashed to IT mode, use SAS to SATA cables, and pass that card through to the VM, instead of passing the drives through. You can just pass the drives through, but it’s sort of “not the best way” of doing it. But it’ll work, many have done it. 
 

And yes, just load the config and it’ll be fine. Just make sure you load the config into the same version of truenas. Theoretically it wouldn’t matter (unless your going from major version to major version or from core to scale), but just to reduce possible issues I would fully update your current bare metal box to 12….. uh, what is the newest? I’m on my phone, but off the top of my head I remember like 12.3u7? Anyways, update, confirm everything works as expected, then set up proxmox, spin up a truenas VM with the same version, pass the drives through, load config, profit. 

would something like this work

https://www.amazon.com/Diyeeni-Controller-Expansion-Profile-Interface/dp/B085NQVHLQ/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=pcie+sata+expansion+card+8+port&qid=1656283553&sprefix=pcie+sata%2Caps%2C78&sr=8-4

 

[AbydosOne]

9 minutes ago, idkpc said:

would something like this work

I would recommend something like an LSI HBA.

[LIGISTX]

2 hours ago, idkpc said:

would something like this work

https://www.amazon.com/Diyeeni-Controller-Expansion-Profile-Interface/dp/B085NQVHLQ/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=pcie+sata+expansion+card+8+port&qid=1656283553&sprefix=pcie+sata%2Caps%2C78&sr=8-4

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/124620790560?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=b9iqiM0OSam&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=B1xTkXm_Qfe&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
 

then you just need SAS to SATA cables:

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/133080894610?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=jFynvEpdSpS&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=B1xTkXm_Qfe&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
 

1 hour ago, AbydosOne said:

I would recommend something like an LSI HBA.

or this, has them as a bundle. 
 

This is actually good hardware, not a random sata controller that may or may not actually work and be reliable. A LSI card is industry standard for enterprise, it’s worth a few extra bucks.