Ever since I retired my old NAS, I’ve been running my home automation (unifi controller, pi-hole, dns, domain controller) and personal storage (NAS) on the same host as my testing setup (’lab’).
In case you read my last two posts and followed along, you now have an all flash ZFS on Linux based datastore. Only problem is, it’s not performing at all.
In the previous post I described how I mounted 4 NVMe flash drives in a single host in order to build an all-flash datastore. In this post, I’ll describe how to move from FreeNAS, TrueNAS (or any other ZFS host OS) to ZFS on Linux, and test if the performance is acceptable to continue with ZFS.
Most people in infrastructure I know have some equipment to play around with, also known as a ’lab environment’. My personal lab is running 24/7 in the closet of my home office.
