From the course: Building a Home IT Lab
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From the course: Building a Home IT Lab
Get started with TrueNAS Community Edition
- [Instructor] While we've spent a lot of time focusing on hypervisors, there are other kinds of tools that we'll find useful when planning and building a home lab. One of these tools is TrueNAS Community Edition, an operating system based on Debian, which is designed to act as a NAS or Network Attached Storage server. This storage is centered around using ZFS, a file system and disk management tool, which provides redundant and expandable storage pools. Like some of the tools we've seen so far, TrueNAS is something we'll install directly on a computer, and then we access it primarily through a web interface in order to configure and manage it. Using the TrueNAS web interface, we can work with disks and storage pools and we can share their contents using many common file sharing protocols like SMB and NFS. TrueNAS offers the ability to share block devices too, in case that's something your lab needs. In order to secure access, we can define file sharing users on the TrueNAS host, or…
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