Thinking from swapping from Proxmos.. couple of question before I take the plunge.

[Morphexe]

So I have a proxmox server up and running. 
I do have a few VMs and containers, currently 23 instances of various OS (windows,etc) and Docker container.

How easy is to setup VMs/Containers? 
One big thing is I need to do GPU Passthrough - and ideally other hardware passthrough..   Both for PLEX/Jellyfin, and some AI, and windows Hosts.
Is this supported, or will I need to go around hoops to get this to work?
I have a ZFS pool that I absolutelly need to import as well as is, and ideally have it available to both windows/linux users - any caveats here?
Last but not least, I have tailscale get access from outside my home network, is this a supported feature, or do I again need to jump through hoops  to get it working?
Sorry for the battery of questions, but after wasting a couple of weekends trying to fix a botched updated, I am looking for something  a bit more stable/less configuration heavy.

Cheers!~

[Mobius]

42 minutes ago, Morphexe said:

How easy is to setup VMs/Containers?

At this time hexos doesn't handle the creating or managing of VMs as far as i am aware, the feature was delayed while main truenas scale figures out what they wanna do.
Truenas scale had transitioned to incus in TN scale 25 but they started detransitioning or something
While you can setup and use VMs for now it'll have to be done via the truenas interface

i haven't done it myself yet so i can't really comment on its ease.

45 minutes ago, Morphexe said:

One big thing is I need to do GPU Passthrough - and ideally other hardware passthrough..   Both for PLEX/Jellyfin, and some AI, and windows Hosts.

At the very least gpu pass through works for me for jellyfin and immich, i haven't tested anything else.
Rule of thumb is that if it works on truenas scale it'll most likely work on hexos

46 minutes ago, Morphexe said:

have a ZFS pool that I absolutelly need to import as well as is, and ideally have it available to both windows/linux users - any caveats here?

I have multiple zfs pools that are accessed by multiple mac and windows computers at the same time. Hexos uses the SMB (samba) protocol to make shares available to the network and i do believe most linux distros support smb.

48 minutes ago, Morphexe said:

Last but not least, I have tailscale get access from outside my home network, is this a supported feature, or do I again need to jump through hoops  to get it working?

at this time there are some hoops to jump through. You need to either setup a reverse proxy, something like tailscale or a cloudflare/pangolin tunnel.
i found setting up a cloudflare tunnel was most straight forward but you need to own a domain for that.

51 minutes ago, Morphexe said:

Sorry for the battery of questions, but after wasting a couple of weekends trying to fix a botched updated, I am looking for something  a bit more stable/less configuration heavy.

always happy to help.
honestly tho if you are running 20+ vms proxmox makes sense.
you can even run hexos as a vm in proxmox and let it handle all your non vm needs.
 

hexos also has a 30 day refund policy so you can try and see if you think it'll work for you.

[Todd Miller]

I think the wording of your questions is a bit hamstringing.  For instance, I have been using Tailscale to access my Immich app outside the internal network.  As well I can access all the NAS data.  But, the only apps officially supported are HexOS core, Immich and Plex.  If you were to browse the full forums you would see the current owners of HexOS are having success with all types of apps but to be completely transparent there are still some issues.  If your a gambler, you buy in and try the things you need.  If you are looking for an out of the box production NAS, I don't think we are quite there yet.  My start was miserable but I came to this product with big hopes but small knowledge and I am already getting everything I wanted.  Just keep in mind that if the HexOS team isn't showing t as a supported app doesn't it will or will not be supported in a year.

[Morphexe]

I don`t mind spending the time to learn! I am just gauging the state of what is currently possible, I might just buy it and sit on it for a bit , or I can just try and deploy it in another machine. To be honest , what I dont want is to spend a few weeks learning something to realize it wont work for what I want - as  in it will not be possible one way or another.

I currently have a "working" setup, the biggest pain has been GPU pass through - I am not expecting a 1 solution that will do anything, its more of a Is this just a NAS, or can I use it as virtualization station as well kinda question, if it makes sense - because right now thats what my proxmox is , a virtualized station with multiple OSes and apps running.

 

[Todd Miller]

I have a working Unraid setup a network analyst friend built for me.  I couldn't really do anything with it myself but I could invite him and his wife over periodically and "upgrade" it.  When I saw Linus's video and then the initial circle of tech reviewers I decided it was time to try myself.  I have no complaints but my needs are pretty straight forward and I got the Black Friday package.