Getting Started

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This guide introduces TrueNAS and walks you through installing and accessing TrueNAS, storing and backing up data, sharing data over a network, and expanding TrueNAS with different applications solutions.

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• ⎙ Download or Print
• User Agreements
• TrueNAS CORE EULA
• TrueNAS Enterprise EULA
• Software Development Life Cycle
• TrueNAS Data Collection Statement
• CORE Hardware Guide
• Install
• Console Setup Menu
• Logging In
• Storage Configuration
• Sharing Storage
• Data Backups
• Applications

CORE Documentation Sections

For more detailed interface reference articles, configuration tutorials, and tuning recommendations, see the remaining sections in the CORE topic.

Each major section of TrueNAS CORE/Enterprise documentation is organized as a standalone book:

• The Getting Started Guide provides the first steps for your experience with TrueNAS CORE/Enterprise:

  • Recommendations and considerations when selecting hardware for CORE.
  • Software Licensing information.
  • Installation tutorials.
  • First-time software configuration instructions.

• Configuration Tutorials have many community and iXsystems -provided procedural how-tos for specific software use-cases.

• The UI Reference Guide describes each section of the CORE web interface, including descriptions for each configuration option.

• API Reference describes how to access the API documentation on a live system and includes a static copy of the API documentation.

• CORE Security Reports links to the TrueNAS Security Hub and also contains any additional security-related notices.

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