TrueNAS vs FreeNAS (and why you should upgrade!)
FreeNAS reigned as the world’s most popular Open Source Software-Defined Storage (SDS) from 2009 to 2020. During Q3 2020, TrueNAS 12.0 was introduced, which started the transition of FreeNAS merging into TrueNAS. Within a year, TrueNAS is now the new #1 Open Source...
TrueNAS Increases the Flexibility of its VMware Storage Solution
TrueNAS has integrated well with VMware and vSphere for many years by maintaining VMware-ready certification status and including support for vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI), vSphere Storage DRS, a vCenter plugin, and other integrations. In 2021, the TrueNAS...
TrueNAS SCALE 21.08 Delivers Major SMB Enhancements
TrueNAS SCALE 21.08 BETA has been released and includes clustered SMB (aka Windows storage) and a much improved Windows-style ACL (Access Control List) editor. These build on the major iXsystems innovation of Windows-style (aka NFSv4) ACLs on Linux ZFS. With these...
TrueNAS 12.0-U5 Released, FreeNAS Transitions to “Legacy” Status
The migration of FreeNAS to TrueNAS started in October 2020. The transition has been deliberately slow and methodical, while the efficiency gains have been every bit the windfall we anticipated. Over this period, many exabytes of data were carefully managed while the...
TrueNAS M-Series Update Enables Unprecedented SCALE-ability
Accurately predicting storage performance and capacity needs for the next twelve months is a struggle for most customers, let alone predicting it over the entire 5+ year lifetime of a storage system. To make matters worse, even if it were possible to predict that far...
Combating Ransomware with TrueNAS
Ransomware is making headlines globally but is not receiving a coordinated response from world leaders or the IT industry. Malicious groups ranging from online street thugs to full-blown state-sponsored military operations are infecting computers and holding them for...
TrueCommand 2.0 Enables TrueNAS Clusters
Unified management systems simplify clustering and complement the scale-out storage capability of TrueNAS SCALE, which also reached BETA this month. SAN JOSE, Calif, June 22, 2021 - iXsystems, the leader in Open Source storage, announced the general availability of...
TrueNAS SCALE BETA Begins Now!
After a very successful ALPHA cycle with thousands of deployed and tested nodes, TrueNAS SCALE 21.06 marks the official beginning of BETA and is now being tested for general NAS usage, scale-out, and application deployment. Many thanks to the thousands of community...
TrueNAS 12.0 Surpasses an Exabyte Under Management
TrueNAS 12.0-U4 was released today and marks another step forward on the path of improving quality. The last release, TrueNAS 12.0-U3.1, has been the highest-ever quality release of the TrueNAS family, is now the most widely deployed version of the software, and has...
TrueNAS SCALE Recognized by Forrester as Pioneer in Open Source HCI
HyperConverged Infrastructure (HCI) has already proven itself to be very important to the future of Enterprise IT. It provides simpler deployment and scaling of workloads from edge systems to colocation facilities, and data centers. Forrester recently recognized TrueNAS SCALE as a pioneer in a new segment of the HCI market: Open Source HCI.