Hosting an Iagon storage Virtual Machine in TrueNas Scale

TrueNas Scale is a Network Attached Storage solution that is free to use and can be purchased for an enterprise license. It is well suited to hosting Iagon storage due to being purposely built for providing storage. In a previous video, I showed how to set up an Iagon node on a TrueNas Scale virtual machine where I also mounted a folder through the network, in this short guide we will make it more simple by adding a block device directly to the virtual machine. We lose a bit of performance and backups will take more space but we gain simplicity and also ease of use of snapshots of the storage.

Step 1 after installing TrueNas scale and setting up a pool create a virtual machine

bind address and password is for a client to see the virtual machine

4 core 16 GiB is more than enough and you could get away with less too

You could also create a 2nd disk and mount an nvme image for the ubuntu / linux installation

If you want to also ping host machine ip you need to create a bridge (see video in the first paragraph link for how to do this)

You can download Ubuntu server for example https://ubuntu.com/download/server and upload it then use it as an installation medium

After confirming next step is to run through a regular installation. If you are using the Ubuntu server a common thing to stop at is to not known what CIDR ip address is and type for example 168.192.0.2 and get error you also need to add the range of the address with say /24 so your ip would be 168.192.0.yourserverip/24. Once you need to reboot the installation you can remove the cdrom device and power off and on the vm

Remove the iso or remove the cdrom device while having shut down the vm and restart the vm

Step 2: Download an ssh client such as putty and access the VM