Frankly, I'm a little livid at this point. I've been dealing with an ongoing intermittent random issue with one of my TrueNAS servers. I'm running a Windows VM, a couple of media servers and NAS for my media. I'm running this on a Dell R510 server with TrueNAS-SCALE-22.02.3. I originally started experiencing this issue with TrueNAS-SCALE-22.02.2. I started off with just the two LAN ports on the server and started having issues where I couldn't access my services over the reserved LAN IP, I had setup and managed by my PFSense firewall. For example, I had one ethernet port reserved as 10.0.0.10, and the other setup as 10.0.0.7. I had 10.0.0.10 for what I used for my services (VM and media server) and 10.0.0.7 for my NAS. Then it started off where I couldn't access anything through 10.0.0.10. and had to use 10.0.0.7 for everything. While troubleshooting I verified the NIC had the correct IP and Mac in my firewall settings, and it showed as an active connection but something in TrueNAS scale appeared to have been refusing to utilize that local IP or that ethernet port. And while trying to make changes in the config to find a way to fix it I ended up doing something where I couldn't even access the TrueNAS GUI or any of my services. I had to wipe everything and do a fresh install then backup from my config and everything worked as setup. But in case I ran into the issue again and got blocked I added a USB to ethernet adapter I had spare just lying around. and I've upgraded to 22.02.3 after I had that issue a couple weeks ago and now I'm going through the same stuff where the other devices on my network I have setup to use the 10.0.0.7 and 10.0.0.10 are having problems connecting though everything with the hardware is functioning and working, Firewall and all other devices, servers, firewall everything thing else is working as it should but this TrueNAS Scale isn't doing what it's supposed to do. I've made no changes to any of the configs or hardware. The only way I can access anything is through the USB to LAN IP. And to be honest, I work full time dealing with IT, Networking, and nothing worse than being off work with other priorities I should be focused on or simply be able to relax TrueNAS Scale OS I'm running on this machine not doing what it's configured to do again is a bit infuriating.
On top of it, refusing to use the reserved IP's and Ethernet port I have configured. I was dealing with Windows 10 VM remote connection through Remote desktop randomly not wanting to connect, the configured MAC# assigned to VM changing on its own, then when I fix one issue and able to log into Windows 10 VM, it connects or detect network shared drives files hosted on the same machine with SMB shares though I can access from other devices on my network. And the Windows 10 VM can see those other networked devices. So, I restarted the VM again. I then randomly I can't connect through the remote desktop to the VM running on the same machine, but I can connect to other VM running on other servers I have something other than TrueNAS on. Though I can't connect through Remote Desktop at that moment and can choose the display and connect through VNC through the small limiting display. And at this point I can see the shared NAS folder hosted on the same machine I couldn't before the restart but now I can do that I can't connect through Remote Desktop. So, I restart the TrueNAS and I restart my firewall once everything boots up, I check. Still no RDP remote connection, only through VNC's limited display it won't allow to adjust the size and I notice it's showing no internet connection at all through the Virtual machine. It's as if every time I restart the machine it's a luck of the draw what's going to work and what's not going to work as configured. When troubleshooting gets to where something works something else stops working as it's configured.
Though I can access the TrueNAS server GUI on any of the reserved IP's. So, at this moment it's as if everything with the TrueNAS itself works, I can access my NAS running on that machine through the correct reserved IP setup in my firewall. I can access the TrueNAS Scale GUI with no issue but it's as if the VM's and the Docker containers are having inconsistent intermittent issues randomly happening with no justification, no errors, nothing as to why it's not being reliable or running as configured. My other TrueNAS server running on a Dell R620 has had no issues, but I don't run any VM's or dockers on it, only NAS. Also, I have a Template I use for my Windows 10 VM. It's a fresh installation of Windows 10. Then in case I have issues with my windows 10 VM after using it for a while I can just erase and make a copy of the fresh install, I've tried that and am still getting these random issues with the VM. and I've tried the same thing with the dockers. Uninstalling/deleting everything and starting over but the networking issues are currently persisting though everything was working just fine yesterday. I had just wiped the TrueNAS and about to do a fresh install of it which I believe will fix it for now but based on my past experience I'm likely to be forced to deal with this again so I figured I'd reach and see if it's a bug or if by chance someone has a recommendation that may help. I've wasted an entire day with this, and I would prefer to be able to enjoy my days off and step away from the computer. If this is what i can expect to deal with using TrueNAS I'll go back to Unraid.
On top of it, refusing to use the reserved IP's and Ethernet port I have configured. I was dealing with Windows 10 VM remote connection through Remote desktop randomly not wanting to connect, the configured MAC# assigned to VM changing on its own, then when I fix one issue and able to log into Windows 10 VM, it connects or detect network shared drives files hosted on the same machine with SMB shares though I can access from other devices on my network. And the Windows 10 VM can see those other networked devices. So, I restarted the VM again. I then randomly I can't connect through the remote desktop to the VM running on the same machine, but I can connect to other VM running on other servers I have something other than TrueNAS on. Though I can't connect through Remote Desktop at that moment and can choose the display and connect through VNC through the small limiting display. And at this point I can see the shared NAS folder hosted on the same machine I couldn't before the restart but now I can do that I can't connect through Remote Desktop. So, I restart the TrueNAS and I restart my firewall once everything boots up, I check. Still no RDP remote connection, only through VNC's limited display it won't allow to adjust the size and I notice it's showing no internet connection at all through the Virtual machine. It's as if every time I restart the machine it's a luck of the draw what's going to work and what's not going to work as configured. When troubleshooting gets to where something works something else stops working as it's configured.
Though I can access the TrueNAS server GUI on any of the reserved IP's. So, at this moment it's as if everything with the TrueNAS itself works, I can access my NAS running on that machine through the correct reserved IP setup in my firewall. I can access the TrueNAS Scale GUI with no issue but it's as if the VM's and the Docker containers are having inconsistent intermittent issues randomly happening with no justification, no errors, nothing as to why it's not being reliable or running as configured. My other TrueNAS server running on a Dell R620 has had no issues, but I don't run any VM's or dockers on it, only NAS. Also, I have a Template I use for my Windows 10 VM. It's a fresh installation of Windows 10. Then in case I have issues with my windows 10 VM after using it for a while I can just erase and make a copy of the fresh install, I've tried that and am still getting these random issues with the VM. and I've tried the same thing with the dockers. Uninstalling/deleting everything and starting over but the networking issues are currently persisting though everything was working just fine yesterday. I had just wiped the TrueNAS and about to do a fresh install of it which I believe will fix it for now but based on my past experience I'm likely to be forced to deal with this again so I figured I'd reach and see if it's a bug or if by chance someone has a recommendation that may help. I've wasted an entire day with this, and I would prefer to be able to enjoy my days off and step away from the computer. If this is what i can expect to deal with using TrueNAS I'll go back to Unraid.