d3rby Posted January 1 Posted January 1 I moved my old TrueNAS setup to HexOS last night for New Year’s. I even managed to cleanly import my old pool, which is great! 🙂 A lot of configurations had to be manually adjusted due to “legacy settings” in the TrueNAS GUI (e.g., Bond, GPU acceleration for Plex, a second pool with an NVMe drive for apps), but overall, things are running quite well! Unfortunately, HexOS seems to be struggling a bit with the second apps storage. At the moment, it’s not recognizing any pools (though it did detect them during the pool RAID import). I hope this gets fixed with future updates! Here’s a quick technical overview: Case: Very old 4U case from the 2000s Motherboard: ASUS P10S-E CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230V5 RAM: 4x 8GB DDR4 2133 MHz ECC HDDs: 4x 4TB WD Red NVMEs: 1x 256GB NVMe cache drive, 1x 250GB NVMe SSDs: 1x WD Blue 500GB boot drive Pools: RAID5 with NVMe cache drive, “stripe” pool with NVMe for apps GPU: NVIDIA P400 for Plex I’ve now recreated all the shares except for my Time Machine backup share and am happily testing everything out! 😊 Simply installing HexOS and importing an existing pool isn’t possible just yet. I had to disconnect my pool and attach an empty drive because HexOS forces you to create a pool during the setup process. Unfortunately, there’s no option to skip this step at the moment. After completing the setup, I deleted the "new" pool on the empty drive, powered down the system, reconnected my original pools, and imported them via the TrueNAS GUI. 🙂 Quote
Captain Roque Posted January 2 Posted January 2 Someone from the dev team should take a look at this and enable a migration tutorial because I bet there are many others like me with the same Issue. Right now I'm struggling with my TrueNAS (i have my shares set, but I cannot find the time to update it and I have some other stuff that are giving me errors and even using chatGPT or Claude to help me, I am struggling to normalize it's core functions. The key to success is make this process as frictionless as possible for the user. I'll try to migrate mine next week. Thank you @d3rby for sharing your experience. Quote
Captain Roque Posted January 2 Posted January 2 On 1/1/2025 at 10:33 AM, d3rby said: I moved my old TrueNAS setup to HexOS last night for New Year’s. I even managed to cleanly import my old pool, which is great! 🙂 A lot of configurations had to be manually adjusted due to “legacy settings” in the TrueNAS GUI (e.g., Bond, GPU acceleration for Plex, a second pool with an NVMe drive for apps), but overall, things are running quite well! Unfortunately, HexOS seems to be struggling a bit with the second apps storage. At the moment, it’s not recognizing any pools (though it did detect them during the pool RAID import). I hope this gets fixed with future updates! @d3rby 1) What did you do with your previous jails? Did you remove them BEFORE migrating, or you removed after migrating and then created the Plex server? 2) Regarding user ranking and sharing: Were you able to recreate usernames and SMB shares within the HexOS GUI or you had to adjust it inside the TrueNAS portal? Quote
d3rby Posted January 2 Author Posted January 2 @Captain Roque 1. i "left" them on the old pool. but i use now a dedicated NVME Drive only for jail / app stuff and install them clean after install hexOS 2. i created the user in HexOS GUI but because my dataset (NASSHARE) was not there in the HexOS GUI. So i made my SMB Share over Truenas GUI Quote
Captain Roque Posted January 5 Posted January 5 On 1/2/2025 at 5:12 PM, d3rby said: @Captain Roque 1. i "left" them on the old pool. but i use now a dedicated NVME Drive only for jail / app stuff and install them clean after install hexOS 2. i created the user in HexOS GUI but because my dataset (NASSHARE) was not there in the HexOS GUI. So i made my SMB Share over Truenas GUI Have you considered a ProxMox Approach with HexOS as a Virtualization? Quote
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