HomeTinyLab

In the following tutorial a quick demo on how to upgrade from FreeNAS 11.3 stable to TrueNAS  CORE 12.0 stable. In my HomeLab I am using FreeNAS from 2013 on. From now on TrueNAS CORE replaces FreeNAS. The upgrade in a view notes: Look which services jails and VMs are running.  Change the train to TrueNAS 12. Be patient when the upgrade is taking place. When the login page is back for logging in check all the services, jails and VMs. In my case one Debian VM was not coming up. I had in the NIC device to generate a MAC address and to bind the NIC of the VM to the physical NIC of the TrueNAS. All this can be seen in the video below. Upgrade from FreeNAS to TrueNAS CORE

 In my hometinylab one of my "servers" is running XCP-ng based on Xenserver (the other "server" of two). For more details look at the drawing of my setup . For the moment the XCP-ng host used in my hometinylab is low on memory (only 4Gb of memory installed). But nevertheless it can be used to learn and to discover how a virtualization host works. Because I am not using enterprise level hardware, XCP-ng is one of the virtualization software platforms that almost work on everything out of the box. The only drawback is the management tools to install and to configure. We will have a look at Xen Orchestra Web Interface for Xenserver (XOA) , also the windows management tool XCP-ng center and the command line interface in other future posts. Other sofware that I used is Advanced IP Scanner . The installation process XCP-ng

 To start my homelab I needed a bootable installation USB stick to install XCP-ng. You can go to the website of XCP-ng to learn about the process  https://xcp-ng.org/docs/install.html#iso-installation  . I did it a different way. First I downloaded the latest version of XCP-ng at  https://updates.xcp-ng.org/isos/  . Then I used win32diskimager, you can download it at   https://win32diskimager.download/download-win32-disk-imager/  . I made little tutorial for doing so. What do you need: USB stick 1Gb or more xcp-ng iso  image win32diskimager software XCP-ng installation media