Getting Started with SCALE

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This section guides you through installing and accessing TrueNAS SCALE, storing, backing up, and sharing data, and expanding TrueNAS with different applications solutions.

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• ⎙ Download or Print
• User Agreements
• TrueNAS SCALE EULA
• Software Development Life Cycle
• TrueNAS Data Collection Statement
• SCALE Hardware Guide
• Installation Instructions
• Installing SCALE
• Console Setup Menu Configuration
• Setting Up Storage
• Setting Up Data Sharing
• Backing Up TrueNAS
• Migrating Instructions
• Migrating from TrueNAS CORE
• Component Naming
• ZFS Feature Flags Removed
• First Time Login
• Preparing for Clustering

SCALE Documentation Sections

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

TrueNAS SCALE documentation is divided into several sections or books:

• The Getting Started Guide provides the first steps for your experience with TrueNAS SCALE:

  • Software Licensing information.
  • Recommendations and considerations when selecting hardware.
  • 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 SCALE 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.

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

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