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GREAT QUESTIONS! Answers below: When future versions of TrueNAS are released, we will test them internally before we make them available via an update mechanism within our UI. Most updates should be able to be applied immediately, but in the event we find a reason to delay the update, notice will be provided to the community. As a more direct question, we think most OS updates will be doable within 1-2 weeks of their TrueNAS SCALE release. You can disconnect us from your server at any time and just use the TrueNAS UI if you want. However, the "install" is still a HexOS install at that point, pointing to our app repo. If you want, you can reinstall TrueNAS SCALE native on your boot device, reboot, import the storage pools we created under HexOS, and continue using TrueNAS natively from there. Yes. If you do things that are destructive, they will have destructive impact ;-). To be clear, there is no safety net when you're navigating in the TrueNAS UI. No bumper lanes there to stop you from shooting yourself in the foot, so the TrueNAS UI is "Swim at your own risk!". We are a replacement management interface for TrueNAS SCALE. The primary focus in the early beta is ease-of-use. Longer term, we will build a docker container that will side-load with the OS to add additional functionality not natively available or part of the out-of-the-box TrueNAS SCALE experience. Buddy backups is a great example of a feature that we are building that will leverage technology in TrueNAS (e.g. replication), but will wrap it in simplicity and marry it with a service that makes connecting to other users far more automated. The app repo that HexOS points to is a clone/fork of the app repo provided by TrueNAS themselves. This allows us to continue to build out our app library independent from them, but also allows us to incorporate anything they do with relative ease. There is no method to adding additional app repos within TrueNAS (nor HexOS), but we do intend to support loading something like Portainer (or another equivalent) for advanced users that want to add 3rd party containers. The command deck will be required for certain functionality. It will ALWAYS be required for initial system provisioning. The main reason is that the HexOS installer does not include our UI and it never will. Instead, the local UI will be loaded via a Docker container that we will install after initial system provisioning. Think of it similar to setting up an iPhone or Android device. You need the Internet + a Google/Apple account to get going, but then you can turn on airplane mode and do whatever you want. Same idea here. The latter (when you receive the early access invite). I updated the terms policy to reflect this as well as it wasn't clear.

It is a must these days to have TailScale support, especially for secure remote access. It is far too easy to mess up a WireGaurd/OpenVPN Config, if the goal is security and simplicity, Tailscale VPN access should be a high priority.

I’m hoping that Tailscale support is also in the works - 🤞yes?

Not something I've seen mentioned other than the support for a VPN (WireGuard?) Being able to integrate into TailScale with their docker compatibility would be nice and something I currently use in my existing setup for security and remotely accessing resources, utilizing their ACL rules to limit access. Would be a nice consideration, I'm sure this won't be simple but a nice to have 🙂

+1 on this! and maybe passkey support as well?

The whole purpose of a NAS to keep data secure and resilient to data loss. Currently there is no way to backup and restore applications. Application Backups/Restore should be plug-and-play. Thoughts: First party implementation Simple Application independent Backup and restore applications Granular restore/backup individual applications Restore applications even on a new Hexos system from backup End-user should be able to browse application data through a file explore Breakaway from ZFS mindset like snapshots (abstracted away behind an advanced menu) and give users a simple traditional backup and restore option.

Hello, I hope to see tailscale and setup guide for it on day 1, I believe this is one of the main apps Or Tailscale not here due to their partnership with Unraid?

HexOS is a fully capable server OS on the back end, with all the difficult technical knowledge requirements that entails. The difference is that the front end is smoothed and curated for ease of use by those of us that aren't willing to devote weeks and months of our lives Its main focus is as a file storage server, but it can also host many interesting things such as local media servers (build your own netflix, spotify, etc), or game servers (minecraft, etc, etc), Voice communication servers like Teamspeak... the list goes on. Basically, its a platform to host and back up your files, AND host other apps if you want to.

i currently have a truenas scale server, which does what i need it to do, but is a huge pain to work with as an amateur. i bought the beta because i love the idea of having a simpler gui on top of the rock solid truenas base. i don't have the time or the hardware to spin up a second server running hexos to participate in the beta right now, but i'd love to be able to switch over to hexos eventually. therefore, having some method to "upgrade" from truenas scale to hexos eventually would be much appreciated. a nice way to do it in truenas's gui would be best of course, but i'd settle for a good written guide. as long as i'm able to bring over my existing datasets, i'll be happy. i don't think this is a priority feature to develop during the beta, but i'd like to see it eventually.

Hi, today i bought the LT license and asked myself if there may be extended features for hosting gameservers like Minecraft, Left4Dead, Ragnarok Online and many more older games. I`d like to bask in nostalgia and try my best to "relive" better times 😆 So my question is: Is or will there be any kind of support/features explicit to hosting game servers. Best regards Clixxi

Please enable 2FA support for accounts.

It would be great to have an integration into home assistant to monitor our NAS + have automation abilities based on the data. is this something already in the works in-house? Or will we need to wait for a community integration?

Did not see anything about LXC support. I have been using that in Proxmox for multiple services. Even if it is in a VM that has GUI supported LXC options that would be a good workaround. Having the options to do DOCKER, LXC and VMs would be amazing to have out of the box.

Hi there! This is something we’ve gotten a lot of questions about and we will explore the possibility of “adopting” an existing TrueNAS installation or pool at a later stage.

When creating a new account it gives the option to select other countries with the address information.

Yes this is exactly what I'd hope, since I just spent a few days moving all my data on there and I'd need to spend a good couple days repeating that :p

Prob one of the best videos about it here

Currently the only 2 supported apps are plex and immich every other apps needs to be setup and installed from truenas currently

Its a Network Attached Storage with App such as Plex Media streaming that you can download. And other things in the future. they will eventually also have support for virtual machines and such. Network attached storage - Folders/files that can be accessed by any device on the same network Not sure if i answered your question or not

The recommendation limits are currently hard enforced, but will be soft enforced in the future. ZFS will allow you to do whatever you want, but we're guiding users to a best practices setup. The issue is that the wider a given pool, the higher likelihood for multi-device failure before the pool is repaired, leading to complete data loss.

This and/or integration for AMP by Cube Coders. I have been using this on Windows but having that integrated would be totally sweet.

I not a big user I'll probably only use qbittorrent and jellyfin

Yes, this is confirmed. Its why we went through such pains to make a responsive design for the UI/UX 😉

Im looking to install a Jellyfin server on my HEX os server, will this be an app?

Feature Suggestion: UPS Integration for Automatic Shutdown Enable Hexos to natively support UPS devices for automatic safe shutdown during power outages. • Benefits: Prevent data loss, monitor power status, and improve reliability. • Implementation: Integrate protocols like apcupsd or NUT for broad UPS compatibility and allow configurable shutdown actions. Would you like help submitting this suggestion? support UPS devices for automatic safe shutdown during power outages. • Benefits: Prevent data loss, monitor power status, and improve reliability. • Implementation: Integrate protocols like apcupsd or NUT for broad UPS compatibility and allow configurable shutdown actions. Would you like help submitting this suggestion?

I recently set up a Truenas server and it functions but I was wishing it had a more scripted set up for each aspect of it. There are many parts of Truenas I do not use as I am unsure of configuring those pieces. Looks like Hex OS will do that. My question is, will there be a migration process to convert a Truenas server to the Hex OS environment without losing my existing Truenas raid array? I really would not want to reformat the drives and have to copy the 14TB of data back over again.

Are there any plans to support mix and matching for drives in a pool? Similar to how Synology has SHR which basically means we can upgrade the pool over time.

Had a bit of an issue with the itinial install but i think that was due to a ssd failure and not the OS. Switched to a different drive and installed it seamlessly. Super impressed so far.

Hey, Out of interest, how long will my lifetime key be valid? I’ve had "lifetime" licenses expire after 10 years because that was the lifetime of the device. I'm interested in trying it out but curious about your stance on lifetime licenses. Kind regards,

Hi, I'm new here but I was wondering if there is no TOTP support on the site at the moment, or if I'm just blind 😁

It was mentioned on a podcast that there would be a 30 day refund window. This wasn't directly from hex os so they might have been mistaken, but I believe there's some way to refund the second license within that period.

Yes. We’re using ZFS. And hopefully make it so simple you won’t need to read a book about it 🙂

Hello to all, Would love to see the following: Sync - OneDrive / OneDrive for Business Sync - Microsoft 365 Sync - Office 365 Sync - GoogleDrive SSO - Microsoft 365 User SSO - Microsfot 365 Business EntraID SSO - Google IAM - Integration for SSO - 1Password / Keeper Password Manager - Passbolt and so much more... The list would be super long. 😄 Best regards Val.

I think the idea is more of having the ability to use an alternative to MacOS and run VMs and such on the Mac. Though I will admit adding an entirely separate architecture outside of x86-64 would be quite the challenge and would need an entirely separate dedicated team to do. Apple and Microsoft have entire departments dedicated to just making ARM variants of their respective OS's, granted at Apple it is now flipped with a smaller niche team working on the x86 OS for their Server Mac Studio line and the main OS developers working on ARM. So while it would be nice, a better route would be to use Ubuntu on ARM and installing CasaOS on top of Ubuntu. Or use Asahi Linux which is a dedicated Apple ARM Linux distro.

Im on the same trajectory. Im running TrueNas on my Dell R730 inside Proxmox. Ideally, id move to be able to simply update the current TrueNas instance to HexOS. For now, im going to spin it down and test another VM on Proxmox for Hex.

Yes. It's a WebUI wrapper and orchestrator for Restic. https://restic.net/

Backrest caught my eye recently - leveraging Restic https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest

Ooo I hope so, this would be handy, am still new to HA and trying to learn stuff, and stil lyet to make a good dashboard, but I do like this idea, I have a Lenovo M11 ready to stick up on a wall somewhere and have it as a "wall panel"

Same, a fairly capable tech nerd, who’s also a product designer, so eager to look at the UX/UI and also share and thoughts and improvements on that from too, especially as new features get launched. This software should be optimised and built from this community, we all want it to succeed!

This isn't really a HexOS thing, but an OpenZFS thing (which is the basis of TrueNAS as well) ZFS pools are made up of one or move volumes, called zvols, and each zvol is independently responsible for data redundancy. If there is one zvol then you can pretend the rest of this doesn't exist, but if there are two or more zvols the data will be striped across them (like RAID0 except chunks of data are assigned to zvols, instead of bytes) Making ZFS equivalents of common RAID types involves some mixing and matching. RAID0 - each disk is its own zvol, the pool contains one zvol per disk and allocates data across all of them RAID1 - a single zvol of the "mirror" type contains all disks RAID10 - each pair of disks is a separate mirror zvol, all the zvols are placed into the pool. RAID5/6 - all disks are placed in a single "raidz1", "raidz2", "raidz3" zvol, where the number indicates how many parity disks should be used RAID50/60 - create as many raidz zvols as you want (each with at least 3 disks) and add them all to the pool to be striped Remember I am purely talking about OpenZFS here, the concepts below might not be implemented in HexOS' management UI, but could be done manually using the local TrueNAS Scale UI/CLI (with the appropriate knowledge expectations and risks) With 2 disks you can either make a RAID0 (two single-disk zvols) or a RAID1 (one mirror zvol). When adding a single disk to a RAID0, you are simply expanding the storage and not introducing redundancy. When adding two disks to an existing 2-disk RAID0, you can convert this to a RAID10 by converting the two single-disk zvols to mirror zvols. When adding two disks to an existing 2-disk RAID1, you can add the new disks as a second mirror zvol, resulting in RAID10 OpenZFS has no mechanism to convert a single-disk or mirror zvol to a raidz zvol (can't convert RAID0/1 to 5). Other NAS systems that are capable of this are using mdadm or a bespoke RAID software. With relatively recent new code (released as Stable only a few months ago) ZFS is now able to expand raidz zvols one disk at a time, and additionally is able to move from raidz1 to raidz2 or raidz2 to raidz3 (add the new disk's space as parity instead of data)

We're thinking of supporting the install of something like Portainer. Would that satisfy your needs? If not, what platform would you prefer?

I'm going to just point form notes my responses: - 9700X has built in APU, so technically you don't need the GTX 1070 for video out during setup, unless you want to use it for hardware transcoding or something in the future - Not sure about 9000 series, but back in 7000 series it was tricky to get 4 sticks of RAM to run at any speed other than JEDEC speeds (like 4200MT) - What was your plan to connect 4 nvme drives? The motherboard you chose only have 2 slots. - I've seen PCI-E 4.0 2X 10GbE cards but not 1X. Example of one would be https://www.owc.com/solutions/10g-ethernet-pcie-network-adapter. Some people did have success running it with open-ended PCI-E 4.0 1X slots

If I pay, I want to use the system right away and not wait for the system to be completed and it will be delivered to me as soon as possible. Will I get OS right away?

TrueNAS (Scale) in turn is based on Debian, which *does* support WiFi, so not removing the drivers shouldn't be impossible. The bigger issue I think is support, since there would be more potential sources of errors. Personally I'd like to have WiFi as a fallback option, since troubleshooting my headless server if ethernet ever stops working for some reason will be dreadful ^^;

One might ask why? Because it would might migrating from other system as simple as just adding in the drives from the old system and allowing a person to copy all the data off at sata/sas/nvme speed, and onto new drives in a new system whether they be internal or on an HBA with an external enclosure. Why would anyone do this you ask? Maybe their old hardware has failed but the drives are still good. It would be super handy for getting old data back again and/or faster migration off old hardware and able to reuse old drives

I too am hoping for TailScale integration from day 1

Easy sync with gdrive, onedrive, Dropbox and others. Rsync can be a bit haptic.

I feel like this is a good time to mention https://darkreader.org/ as a good solution to most websites.

Hah! Hopefully a 50-series GPU from NVIDIA!

Lifetime licenses are issued per server. You can "disconnect" a server from HexOS and free up that license for use on another. If you want two systems for remote backup, you would need two licenses.