TrueNAS on ESXi Plex notes

[Jaaeru]

Just a few quick notes. Hopefully this helps someone out in the future.
I'm running TrueNAS on an ESXi platform.
I was attempting to load Plex media server and was having major issues with networking. This simple fix took care of it.
- In ESXi I set vSwitch->Security->Promiscuous Mode to Accept and was then able to install the Plex plugin successfully. It appears that Plex is not happy unless this option is set, even after installation.

Updating Plex running TrueNAS is very simple as well. No long guides to read.
Open Shell in the Plex jail and run these commands. It took approximately 3 minutes.
service plexmediaserver stop
pkg update
pkg upgrade
service plexmediaserver start

 

[jgreco]

That has NOTHING to do with Plex. You need to do this anytime you have a virtual machine that has supplementary IP addresses that the host will need to listen for. Otherwise the FreeBSD bridge code never gets access to the ARP requests for those supplementary addresses. This is a common problem for newbies to virtual networking.

 

[danb35]

Open Shell in the Plex jail and run these commands.

The four can really be condensed into two: pkg upgrade (pkg isn't apt; there's no need for distinct update and upgrade operations) followed by service plexmediaserver restart. Or, if you've been a bit more clever in setting up the Plex jail in the first place, you have this running on a schedule so you don't need to do anything with it manually.

The problem is that the FreeBSD packages do lag behind the official releases by a bit, and Plex users seem to have a pathological need to run the most up-to-the-minute version of the software--it's for that reason that scripts like this one have become popular.