FreeNAS 11.0-RC now Available
iXsystems TrueNAS Certified with Veeam Backup
iXsystems, the leader in Enterprise Storage and Servers driven by Open Source, officially passed the Veeam Backup and Replication v9.5 for VMware certification tests for the TrueNAS Z-product line enterprise storage systems. This certification includes the Z20, Z30, Z35 Hybrid Storage and the Z50 All-Flash Arrays, all running TrueNAS 9.10.
NAB Wrap Up
Tune into David Valencia’s reflection during the NAB event in Las Vegas. iXsystems’ Channel Sales Manager and Brad Meyer, iXsystems’ Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, explore how media and storage are “joined at the hip”.
FreeNAS Corral Status: From “RELEASE” to “TECHNOLOGY PREVIEW” Status
Advance tl;dr: Due to flaws discovered in its architecture, FreeNAS Corral has been downgraded to “TECHNOLOGY PREVIEW” status while we instead rebase its features upon the rock solid FreeNAS 9.10 base system, soon to be released as “FreeNAS 11”. As many diehard FreeNAS users know, FreeNAS Corral was released on March 15th. It was a […]
What I Wish Everyone Knew About iXsystems’ White-Glove Support
The iXsystems Customer Service Team is committed to ensuring our customers attain the best value from our products. We are organized to assist with iXsystems’ TrueNAS and server product lines, ensuring maximum productivity is achieved, while also providing aid during those tough situations.
FreeNAS Certified All-Flash Array: the ideal balance of capacity, durability, and price
Our own Steve Wong discusses the overall design and reasoning behind the price point of the 10TB all-flash, enterprise-class storage array. It is well-known that solid state storage (SSD) delivers substantially higher IOPS and better latency than traditional hard disk drives. But there is also a downside; SSDs have a finite number of write/erase cycles.
TrueNAS Storage Primer on ZFS for Data Storage Professionals
New to TrueNAS and OpenZFS? Their operations and terms may be a little different for you. The purpose of this blog post is to provide a basic guide on how OpenZFS works for storage and to review some of the terms and definitions used to describe storage activities on OpenZFS.
What Do All These Terms Mean?
For those that are new to TrueNAS and OpenZFS, the terminology may be daunting at first. To help out the new users, iXsystems has compiled a list of the most commonly requested OpenZFS terms and their definitions.
FreeNAS: An Ideal Storage Platform for Network Administration Education
Guest Author Marc Matthes describes his experience with integrating FreeNAS into his curriculum at Iowa Central Community College.
TrueNAS Provides Lower TCO Than Software-Defined Storage
IT Brand Pulse recently published a TCO case study on archival storage. In the study, they examine three storage arrays and four software-defined storage (SDS) solutions. Based on their metrics, they found two of the SDS solutions had the lowest TCO and the other two SDS solutions were among the highest, yet at the end of the study, they still conclude that SDS is the future of storage.