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Category: TrueNAS Scale/VMware/vSAN/vSphere

How to Run ZFS on VMware vSphere: Setup Guide and Best Practices

Posted On December 18, 2024October 1, 2025 By James

Table of Contents Copy on Write Disk ID’s Trim I have run a number of systems utilising ZFS since the earliest days of my homelab using Nexenta all the way back in 2010. The image below is my lab at the time with an IBM Head unit that I think Continue Reading

Category: Homelab/Storage/TrueNAS Scale

Can you really squeeze 96TB in 1U ?

Posted On September 12, 2024October 1, 2025 By James

Yes, that’s a clickbait title. But technically it’s possible if I dropped all drive redundancy… I recently saw an advert for a server that was just too good to be true. It promised to bring a huge amount of storage and future options in a quite hard-to-believe 1U. The price Continue Reading

Category: Kubernetes/TrueNAS Scale

TrueNAS Scale Useful Commands

Posted On November 13, 2023March 8, 2024 By James
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A list of useful Truenas Scale commands