Once in the new window, we are going to assign it an IP Address in the VLAN 100 subnet. In our case it is cxl1, we are going to click on the >, and then press EDIT. Just like in ESXI, we need to find our second connected network interface and configure it.
Next, we will go back to the Network menu and click on the Interfaces submenu item. TrueNAS Network Global Configuration Menu Similarly, for the DNS Servers field, we used Cloudflare and Google. In the Domain field, we are going to use the same domain test.local. When you use the latter method as we are here, you should keep things thematic so it doesn’t become impossible for you to remember what systems are related. They can also be easier to communicate and remember. The other camp says you should name things as random as possible so that if an attacker gains access into your network they have a harder time trying to find critical systems to attack. There are two schools of thought for naming servers, one camp says you should name things as specifically as possible so that when the next person comes in they can figure out what is what. We are then going to modify the Hostname field, we named ours Morty. Once we are here, we are going to expand the Network menu and click on the Global Configuration submenu. TrueNAS core is laid out with tabs for each menu item on the left and there are submenu items under each thing listed in the menu that you can expand. Sign in with the username root and the password we created during our installation. The first thing we are going to do when we have TrueNAS CORE installed, and have the networking configured in the config wizard, is going to the web interface.
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Documentation from VMWare on how to set the management IP in ESXI can be found from VMWare here.
For the sake of this article, I have given ESXI the IP 10.99.10.10.
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Documentation from VMWare on how to install ESXi can be found here.
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The latest ISO of VMware ESXi can be found for free online here. Documentation from iXsystems on how to do initial setup in TrueNAS Core can be found here. For the sake of this article, I have given TrueNAS Core the IP 10.99.10.11. Once we have installed our operating system, all that needs to be done is to give each our server an IP address in the 10.99.10.0/24 subnet. The latest ISO of the TruNAS CORE BETA can be found here and documentation from iXsystems on how to install TrueNAS Core can be found here. If you are a Windows user, the easiest way to do create an installer USB drive would be to use Rufus. We will, however, lead you to all of the necessary official documentation in order to accomplish that goal. Installing operating systems is pretty trivial. We are proceeding under the assumption that if you have gotten this far you can write the operating system installer ISOs to a USB thumb drive. In this article, we are going to configure VMware ESXi and TrueNAS Core to work with our lab. With our initial planning complete, and our network deployed, it is finally time to look at building out our servers. This is the third part of our “Building a Lab” series.