UniFi UNAS and Tailscale

[muted rock]

Hi everyone, I'm looking to build out a homelab with the intention of having Tailscale-connected Proxmox nodes on a UniFi-backed network. As part of this I'd like to centralise my storage onto a UniFi UNAS 2/4 which would serve as my source of storage for pretty much everything across my network.

I was wondering about how to access the storage from my tailnet-connected devices, has anyone had any experience with something like this? would I need to install Tailscale directly onto the UNAS? the UniFi Drive 3.x software is a little different compared to something like TrueNAS or Synology Apps where I imagine support is much better for Tailscale.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

[shy aurora]

try this project by the community? it supports several different unifi devices including "UNAS Pro" so maybe it will work on yours https://github.com/SierraSoftworks/tailscale-udm

[muted rock]

Looks like this is the way to go, the UNAS 4 isn't on the list of supported devices but it's only just been released. I'll give it a go and report back.

[muted rock]

Thinking about this more, since I plan to install tailscale to each proxmox host I should in theory be able to mount the shares to one of the hosts and then access on my other tailnet devices through that host. That may be a better long term solution as the UNAS may not be SSH'able or have enough CPU to cope with tailscale.

[woeful coral]

IMO (and this is absolutely bordering on homeenterpriselab more than homelab) consider Ceph across the PVE cluster

[muted rock]

I did take a look at Ceph but I'd like to keep the storage simple for the moment, I was hoping to just plug the UNAS in and have the storage accessible but without somehow adding the NAS to my tailnet it's going to be difficult.

Looking at other suggestions it seems either to try and install tailscale directly onto the NAS if SSH is available, or mount the shares to a gateway device and access through that.

Would Tailscale subnet routing be helpful here?

[muted rock]

I think subnet routing is the solution here. I have an Apple TV in my tailnet connected with ethernet, I can set a /32 just for the NAS IP and connect to it through the Apple TV using the same LAN address, as the TV will advertise that /32 for me.

[jagged plover]

you could also just use the proxmox nodes as subnet routers... if thery are in the same subnet (or can reach it, of course)

[muted rock]

Very true, all the nodes will be next to the NAS on the network so any of those will do just fine as well