in one of my last videos i showed you how i built my new home server with proxmox which is an amazing system to run virtual machines in your home lab and proxmox is great as a hypervisor you can build zfs storage pools with it you can run virtual machines but it isn't really great for storing files and making them available in your network so i was searching for something else that i could use as an s system and i wanted to run it as a virtual machine because then i could just use my existing server without buying a new device so i did a quick research on the internet and i thought i should try out NUMBER_TOKENnas and run this as a virtual machine in proxmox turns out that this isn't actually so difficult and there are no bigger downsides when doing this but there are still a few things you need to consider when building a storage system on desktop hardware or run it as a virtual machine so let's take a look at these things and let me show you how i built this system by the way thanks everybody for supporting my channel i'm so thankful for all the great people in my community may it be on discord on twitter you're always giving me such a great feedback interesting questions and great suggestions for future videos and i know that i haven't really delivered on that like i wanted to in the past just because there's so much i want to do with this channel and there are so many topics and tools i want to make all videos about which can be overwhelming but i will keep track of all your suggestions and if there is something in particular you really want to see or you need help with then please let me know i may not be able to cover everything and turn it into an interesting and appealing video but at least i try i tried really hard anyway i just wanted to get that out of the way so let's start with the server build and i first want to show you trueness core which was previously known as freeness and this is an operating system based on freebsd which comes with many cool features like an intuitive web ui and a redundant software rate that is based on open zfs and you can just download this on their home page completely for free you can install that on a desktop pc or server but also run it in a virtual machine and for any professional company environment there's even an enterprise version existing that comes with some additional cool features but for any home server the trueness core version is totally sufficient you can do everything with it that you can imagine for building a reliable storage system at home but speaking of reliability it is very important that you consider a few things when building this and the first one is that you should always run truenas with ecc memory ecc stands for error correction code and it is a specific type of memory that can detect and even correct errors it's a standard in any professional server or workstation hardware and you can easily spot these memory modules because they are called registered ecc memory but this is something that isn't very common on desktop hardware because usually on a normal desktop pc you don't need that so when you're building your trueness system on professional server hardware where you have registered ecc memory you're fine but when you're building a home server with desktop hardware you usually don't
START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN the way thanks everybody for supporting my channel i'm so thankful for all the great people in my community may it be on discord on twitter you're always giving me such a great feedback interesting questions and great suggestions for future videos and i know that i haven't really delivered on that like i wanted to in the past just because there's so much i want to do with this channel and there are so many topics and tools i want to make all videos about which can be overwhelming but i will keep track of all your suggestions and if there is something in particular you really want to see or you need help with then please let me know i may not be able to cover everything and turn it into an interesting and appealing video but at least i try i tried really hard anyway i just wanted to get that out of the way so let's start with the server END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN