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TrueNAS Scale on a Dell R620 — Part 4: Connecting VMware Hosts via NFS
Adding the R620 NFS datastore to the HPE DL380 G9 management host via vCenter using NFS 4.1, fixing write permissions with maproot settings on TrueNAS, and validating the connection.
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TrueNAS Scale on a Dell R620 — Part 3: ZFS Tuning, Data Protection and Monitoring
Setting the ZFS ARC limit to 320GB, tuning dataset sync and record size for VMware NFS workloads, configuring daily snapshots, and setting up monitoring on TrueNAS Scale 25.10 on a Dell R620.
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TrueNAS Scale on a Dell R620 — Part 2: Pool, NFS, and ZFS Tuning
Creating the ZFS RAIDZ2 pool, setting up a single NFS share for VMware, and tuning ZFS on TrueNAS Scale 25.10 running on a Dell R620 with 384GB RAM.
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Ditching OMV for TrueNAS Scale on a Dell R620 — Part 1: Installation
I replaced OpenMediaVault with TrueNAS Scale on a Dell R620 — LSI 9211-8i in IT mode, 10x 1.2TB SAS drives, 384GB ARC cache serving VMware NFS datastores. Here is the full installation walkthrough including iDRAC firmware updates, Virtual Media install, and network configuration.