Recently I've been testing out various NAS configurations in my homelab environment - I was particularly keen to get TrueNAS Scale (TNS) working with physical and virtual VMware ESXi hosts. I'd used NFS before from TNS to ESXi servers but found performance somewhat lacking (even when using NVMe or SSD storage) and …

In my home lab I've used many different platforms over the years to host container and VM workloads, often I find I need to move VMs between different hypervisors. In this post I'll detail the steps I used to move some virtual machines from TrueNAS Scale (which uses zVol storage for VM disks and KVM as a hypervisor to …