iXsystems Releases Major Software Update to TrueNAS Unified Storage Appliance
The TrueNAS 9.3 release features improved virtualization support with the addition of new VMware VAAI primitives. The newly added VAAI Block primitives include Write Same Zero to save resources on writes, XCOPY which reduces VM deployment time by having TrueNAS perform large data transfers, and Atomic Test and Set, which increases the number of VMs you can place on a datastore backed by TrueNAS. Also supported is the SCSI UNMAP command, which is used to recover capacity when a VM is moved or deleted.
A Complete Guide to FreeNAS Hardware Design, Part IV: Network Notes & Conclusion
Network FreeNAS is a NAS and/or IP-SAN (via iSCSI)…which means everything happens over the network. If you are after performance, you are going to want good switches and server grade network cards. If you are building a home media setup, everything might be happening over wireless, in which case network performance becomes far less […]
A Complete Guide to FreeNAS Hardware Design, Part III: Pools, Performance, and Cache
A Complete Guide to FreeNAS Hardware Design, Part II: Hardware Specifics
A Complete Guide to FreeNAS Hardware Design, Part I: Purpose and Best Practices
FreeNAS vs TrueNAS
NOTE: This is historical content that may contain outdated information. View the newest version of the blog here. “What’s the difference between TrueNAS and FreeNAS? Is TrueNAS just FreeNAS installed on a server?” If you look at the software feature list, there aren’t a ton of differences. So really….what’s the difference? The first difference […]
Insane 48TB FreeNAS Build | FreeNAS Failover Demo | Other Goodies…
Hello FreeNAS Users, FreeNAS 9.3 is here and it sports a ton of great new features including a redesigned UI, a new configuration wizard, and an update manager. In addition, we’ve got a bunch of new videos for you—some instructional, some just for fun. Thanks to everyone who helped us make 2014 a success. Here’s […]
FreeNAS 9.3 Released
Here’s an early Christmas present for you all: FreeNAS 9.3! This FreeNAS update is a significant evolutionary step from previous FreeNAS releases, featuring a simplified and reorganized Web User Interface, support for Microsoft ODX and Windows 2012 clustering, better VMWare integration, including VAAI support, a new and more secure update system with roll-back functionality, and […]
FreeNAS & ZFS: The Indestructible Duo – Except for the Hard Drives
At this year’s MeetBSD, Joshua Paetzel, a core member of the FreeNAS Development Team, demonstrated the failover capabilities of FreeNAS… by pulling the drives out of two FreeNAS Minis and completely destroying them. Josh ran a build mounted from two FreeNAS Minis populated by four drives each. The compiler was projected on a screen so […]
FreeNAS 9.3 will be released on 2014/12/8
Hi folks, Just a quick update on this topic since it has been communicated (by me, even) that FreeNAS 9.3-RELEASE would come out at the end of November. Obviously, it is now the end of November and that hasn’t happened yet, so time for a quick update! First, we’d like to thank everyone for their […]