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Introducing the TrueNAS V140
The full V-Series platform, sized for the workloads most teams actually run. There's a version of every storage refresh that ends with a system bigger and faster than the workload ever needed, plus a support contract to match. The headroom looks great on the spec...
Lessons from the VMware Exodus
When one of the world's largest grocery retailers moves to migrate 40,000 server workloads off its hypervisor stack while suing its software vendor for more than £100 million, enterprise IT takes notice. According to Tesco's High Court filing, the retailer purchased...
Compression that Pays You Back
"Compression saves space, but it costs performance." That used to be true. It's why plenty of admins still leave it off by default, or only turn it on for cold archive data where nobody will notice the tax. That math made sense when CPU was scarce and every cycle...
When RAM Runs Out: Making L2ARC Work on TrueNAS
"Add more RAM" is the right answer to a slow storage system more often than not; but it’s also not always the answer you get to give. Budget caps it. Technical limitations of your motherboard cap it. Consolidating more workloads onto fewer nodes caps it hardest of...
TrueNAS is Secure Storage
The first line of defense for any device or system on a network is the network itself. Following security best practices for endpoint and perimeter security is the foundation of data security. When properly configured on a secure network, TrueNAS further protects your...