HexOS for managing storage on Proxmox server

[Eztebe]

Hi there,

I’m building up a server (PE R730xd) with a HBA pass through card and was intending on running Proxmox on it, but have a TrueNAS VM handling the storage for all other VMs and containers that would be running out off TrueNAS. 

Is HexOS able to handle that as well?

Since HexOS has a more intuitive interface, I was wondering if I should use it instead of an out of the box TrueNAS and if it had an added value to this setup. 

[K3dy]

So you would run HexOS as VM on Proxmox?

 

[brwainer]

I would imagine HexOS as a VM would work the same as TrueNAS does since they only add on not replace anything of TrieNAS Scale, so if the simplified management is good for you then why not?

[ysuissa]

right now i'm running TrueNAS Scale as a VM on proxmox and i have no issues, and that's how i plan on using HexOS as well!

i'm not planning on running any critical infrastructure on it though, i don't trust it yet lmao

[Eztebe]

5 hours ago, K3dy said:

So you would run HexOS as VM on Proxmox?

 

Yes correct.

1 hour ago, ysuissa said:

right now i'm running TrueNAS Scale as a VM on proxmox and i have no issues, and that's how i plan on using HexOS as well!

i'm not planning on running any critical infrastructure on it though, i don't trust it yet lmao

Awesome! I might try that then when I get the license.

@ysuissa, you use TrueNAS Scale for your containers as well or just to manage the storage with a HBA card?

[ysuissa]

On 12/1/2024 at 9:25 PM, Eztebe said:

Yes correct.

Awesome! I might try that then when I get the license.

@ysuissa, you use TrueNAS Scale for your containers as well or just to manage the storage with a HBA card?

i chose to pass my RAID card to my TrueNAS scale and i run my storage on it.

any containers i want are running on a separate ubuntu VM with docker, though now that TrueNAS (and thus HexOS) supports docker (rather than kubernetes (which im illiterate at), there's no actual reason for me to do that anymore.

go with whatever is most convenient for you to diagnose. everything else is secondary. you won't feel the the difference in overhead of any solution.