At iXsystems, we do not answer to the same Wall Street or Venture Capital stakeholders that other vendors do. This allows us to focus exclusively on making our customers successful, powered by our core value to always “think people before profit”.

The benefits of our Open Source business model are no secret. They are simply unique to iXsystems in the Enterprise Storage market. We leverage open source development, non-traditional tactics, and the energy and engagement of the massive TrueNAS Community to help deliver products rated higher on Gartner than our competition. Collectively, this gives iXsystems an unfair and sustainable advantage in delighting customers while charging less to deliver positive outcomes.

Simply put—our model requires far fewer resources, and we pass those savings on to our customers. We charge less.

How It Works

Compared to iXsystems, traditional data storage vendors are forced to maintain outsized corporate overheads — both in terms of expense and effort — just to keep their technology closed, patented, and to capture 100% of the value they create.

We carry none of that burden, which enables us to be more nimble and efficient. Here’s how that works and how it benefits our customers:

Community – Community is the special ingredient. We are grateful to be stewards of the TrueNAS Open Source project. Consider the unique combination of TrueNAS community and users; iXsystems and partners; customers; and non-paying users. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and contributions from the Community bring enormous value. With iXsystems’ contributions and the incredible Community, this enables agility, investment, and innovation to TrueNAS that no proprietary company could emulate.

Software Development – Plain and simple, making software that is proprietary and closed-source requires more effort, resources, and money than open-source development. Most storage vendors also have multiple code bases, further compounding this disadvantage, while iXsystems has one open-source code base to maintain and grow. This common code base includes many other open-source elements (e.g., OpenZFS), which expands the community of talented Engineers directly contributing to TrueNAS, further reducing costs.

Product Management – Unlike other enterprise storage vendors, iXsystems does not invest in efforts to lock in customers; we do the very opposite by making TrueNAS as open, compatible, interoperable, and easy to leave as possible. However, we believe that once you experience TrueNAS, you won’t want to leave. We don’t have complex software licensing, and our appliances can run the latest software for years, long after the hardware is depreciated — a sustainability practice we fully encourage! At iXsystems, there are zero development cycles spent on planned obsolescence.

Security – TrueNAS is Open Source and therefore transparent by default, with broader user coverage and more eyeballs on the code, thereby leveraging massive user communities to help uncover, alert, and respond to security vulnerabilities. This enables code fixes much faster than proprietary vendors who can only rely on internal resources or respond only after the vulnerability has impacted their customers. Additional security enhancements (e.g. FIPS 140) are available with TrueNAS Enterprise appliances.

Quality – This is another area where the Community makes a huge difference. At a fraction of the investment, Quality Assurance for TrueNAS software takes less time, money, and resources, all while providing more complete test coverage. When a version is declared ready for general use, it has benefitted from extensive community testing. TrueNAS sees faster bug reporting/testing and a more rapid access to new features and fixes than other vendors (who often use their first customer shipments as QA) because of the feedback from the community.

Interoperability – Being open also makes iX a very easy company for other software vendors to partner with, as they need no demo units or non-disclosure agreements to test that their technology works well with TrueNAS.

Documentation – Like Quality, many hands make for light work. By the time a release is recommended for general use, documentation has been reviewed by thousands, accelerating the process of ensuring accuracy.

Intellectual Property – Effort is required to protect technology for maximum profit. iXsystems spends no energy on patents, choosing instead to focus resources on value creation rather than blocking innovation.

Sales – TrueNAS Community Edition software is free to try and use, and has been shown to run on almost any x86 hardware, or can be spun up easily in a VM. As such, we encourage audiences to try it for themselves without any involvement from a sales team. Our experts at iX then help customers identify the optimal configuration of TrueNAS Enterprise appliance(s) for important storage applications.

Marketing – Where our competition spends money on marketing, we instead spend on developing free software that delights our users. Word of mouth is the original marketing tactic and the goodwill we invest in the TrueNAS community results in outsized awareness. With more than 15 million downloads and more than a half million active community members, appreciative users write blogs and how-to content, influencers create videos, and hundreds of thousands of community members tell others about their positive experiences with TrueNAS.

Sustainability – Most storage vendors rely on forced obsolescence to maintain growth. At the end of its supported life, most IT infrastructure is scrapped and not recycled, let alone reused. With TrueNAS software, organizations can repurpose infrastructure beyond its normal life and extract more value from it. After 3-7 years of mission-critical duty, appliances from iXsystems can remain updated with the latest software and transition to a less critical storage role for many years while positively impacting sustainability and financial efficiency.

How This Benefits YOU

“Value” means receiving the most for your dollar. However, most traditional vendors use the word “value” in the context of justifying why it’s worthwhile to pay more for their product. At iX, we don’t have to contort the definition of the word into something it’s not. Our goal in creating TrueNAS was to allow our customers to receive more from our products while also paying less — the true meaning of value as far as we’re concerned.

Experience it for Yourself

We encourage you to experience True Data Freedom for yourself today (download TrueNAS here), see what our customers are saying on Gartner’s Website, or if you’re storing critical data, feel free to schedule a call with one of our helpful Product Experts.

Still curious about why we do what we do? Check out this video with some of the faces behind TrueNAS, sharing their perspectives on what it is like for iXians to come to work every day and deliver TrueNAS to the world.

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iX-Storj Giveaway!

iX is teaming up with Storj to deliver the biggest giveaway the TrueNAS community has ever seen. 25 GB of cloud storage comes with a free iX-Storj account, but that’s not all. You’ll also be entered for a chance to win the all-new TrueNAS Mini R, populated with 12 x 6 TB drives (that’s 72 TB of raw capacity!). Other prizes include the TrueNAS Mini X (2 available) and an iX-Storj Starter Package (4 available). There are many ways to score points for the giveaway so don’t forget to subscribe to the iX-Storj Starter package for additional entries.

Enter the Giveaway Now!

TrueNAS 13.0-U5 Maximizes Quality and your Storage Experience

The new TrueNAS 13.0-U5 release builds on the Enterprise maturity of prior versions. The previous version, TrueNAS 13.0-U4, proved to be the highest quality release in TrueNAS history and has become the most widely-deployed version of TrueNAS. This new release includes roughly 60 new bug fixes including improvements to NFS, SMB, and replication. For Enterprise users, a specific fix corrects an incorrect alert in earlier generation NVDIMMs.

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Always Easy and Now More Affordable – iX-Storj cloud storage for $2.50 per TB per Month

iX believes that your data belongs to you and you alone, whether on-premises or in the cloud. This is why iX has partnered with the Storj Network to bring you a secure, high-performance solution for your cloud storage at a competitively low price.

With the iX-Storj Starter Package, you get 5 TB of capacity to use, and 5 TB of pre-paid transfer bandwidth for outbound traffic from the Storj network, giving you a $275 value for only $150! Check out our new TrueNAS blog for a detailed walkthrough on getting started with the iX-Storj Starter Package.

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Level Up your Ransomware Protection with TrueNAS!

TrueNAS offers multiple levels of protection against ransomware, including snapshots, native encryption, authentication, and containerization, just to name a few. And, of course, thanks to our community of users, the TrueNAS Open Source code can be easily validated and supported. Read all about how you can level-up your ransomware protection on TrueNAS.

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New Sections on Replication for the TrueNAS SCALE Evaluation Guide!

Expand your TrueNAS SCALE knowledge with our newest how-to videos on the TrueNAS SCALE Evaluation Guide, covering replication scenarios for Local, PUSH, and PULL! You can also view our text version to read along. Whether it’s your first time using SCALE or you’re looking to continue your Open Storage journey, this guide offers bite-sized advice for everyone. Click the link below to get started today!

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What Can a $60,000 Media Server Do? (Snazzy Labs)

Snazzy Labs ditched their old server to supercharge their workflow with the power of the TrueNAS M-Series. Snazzy shares what it’s like to unbox the M-Series, navigate the admin dashboard, experience the speed of the server for the first time, and more. Click the thumbnail to see more!

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Latest Releases

Tech Tip #124

Did you know that you can see how well ZFS compression is working on a per-file basis? By using the TrueNAS Shell or connecting over SSH, you can use the du command with the –apparent-size (SCALE) or -A (CORE) option to list the sizes of files in a directory before compression is considered. Compare this to the same command without the extra parameter, and see how effective the inline compression in TrueNAS can be!

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New TrueNAS Release & Microsoft Azure Integration

TrueNAS reaches Prime Time with its latest release! TrueNAS 12.0 is the official merger of FreeNAS and TrueNAS into a unified software image accompanied by a long list of features and performance improvements. With new features, improved performance, and higher quality, TrueNAS 12.0-U3 becomes the default release for new systems.

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Q2 2021 TrueNAS Specials are available for a limited time!
Check out these two systems that are ready for immediate shipping and deployment. Prices are good enough through June 30th or until supplies run out, so reserve your system now!

This TrueNAS M40-HA is packed with 432 TB of raw capacity and full 100GbE networking for under $45,000. With industry-leading Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and capabilities of up to 6.5Gb/s throughput, this system is perfect for video editing and performance file-sharing.

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This All-Flash TrueNAS R10 delivers 30 TB of all-flash performance and capacity for just $9,900. Starting with 32 GB RAM and dual 10GbE networking, the TrueNAS R10 offers upgrades to 100GbE networking and can be installed with any version of TrueNAS, including Enterprise and SCALE.

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Network Center takes TrueNAS to Azure
In the corporate world, the hybrid cloud environment is the norm, not the exception. TrueNAS is designed to simplify and support multiple deployments within the hybrid world. Recently, Mike Pagan, Senior Solution Architect at Network Center, an iXsystems partner, used published tools to deploy TrueNAS to the Microsoft® Azure public cloud.

Learn more

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iSCSI Performance with VMware ESXi and the TrueNAS Mini X+
This video from 2GuysTek will show you the setup and connectivity between a single ESXi virtual host and TrueNAS on the Mini-X+. If you’re looking to see what TrueNAS can do for your VMware virtual infrastructure using 10Gig Ethernet, this video is for you!

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TrueNAS CORE – Active Directory and Windows Integration in 10 Minutes 
Watch Sheridan Computers set up TrueNAS CORE with Windows Active Directory integration, allowing it to protect samba shares with Windows Active Directory users and groups. This video will show you how it can easily be done with just 10 minutes of your time.

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How Do I Back Up All My Servers???
This video shows how Craft Computing backs up all their servers and utilizes TrueNAS Replication & Snapshots in the process.

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Latest Releases

TrueNAS	12.0-U3	Release Notes
TrueCommand	1.3.2	Release Notes
TrueNAS SCALE	21.02-ALPHA.1	Release Notes

 

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iXsystems is selected as one of the 40 Coolest Software-Defined Storage Vendors by CRN!

The 40 vendors that were selected have developed the software that provides the kind of storage services needed to meet today’s changing workloads and applications. iXsystems is proud to be highlighted as one of the top providers of storage technology that can be used for deployments spanning the range of business user requirements. From traditional on-premises to solutions in the cloud, from hardware to software, from capital expense to managed services and everything in between, iXsystems proves to be one of the coolest and most versatile storage vendors around.

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Here’s what experts at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) had to say about TrueNAS in their recent validation report:

“The combination of ZFS, open source, and a lean sales force provides efficiencies that enable iXsystems to offer high performance, feature-rich solutions at high value price points. We calculated a significant delta. Based on our testing and analysis, we found that iXsystems can typically offer up to double the performance at half the cost of their major competitors.”

Download the full report

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TrueNAS Community Store 
Know someone who loves TrueNAS? Maybe that someone is you. Check out our new TrueNAS Community Store and show off your TrueNAS pride. We’ll be adding additional items in the coming year so be on the lookout to score new TrueNAS gear.

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eBook on Open Source Storage

This free eBook from iXsystems and ActualTech Media explains how proprietary and cloud storage falls short and why Open Source is a better development model for storage systems. Learn about the advantages of NVMe and NVDIMM storage for the modern enterprise and why businesses need a unified data platform.

Download eBook

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Tech-Tip #92
TrueNAS allows users to run specific commands or scripts on a regular schedule using cron(8). This can be helpful for running repetitive tasks.

Learn More about Cron Jobs

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Links of the Month

• TrueNAS CORE 12 Review – HPE MicroServer
• TrueNAS CORE – How to Install the Nextcloud Plugin and Enforce HTTPS with a Self-Signed Certificate
• TrueNAS Backup Target – Deduplication Impact
• How to Build a DIY NAS from an OLD PC on a $0-$50 Budget

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Employment Opportunities 
Are you as passionate about Open Source technology as we are? Maybe you’re a perfect fit for one of our open positions. Send your resume our way! We’d love to chat with you more about the opportunities here at iXsystems!

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TrueNAS Mini X+ | Big Performance in a Small Package! 

Watch Rich and Jon from 2GuysTek discuss why the TrueNAS Mini X+ is a serious contender in the premium home NAS market.

Q1 2021 TrueNAS Specials for Less than 7 cents per GB! 
Only a few days left to take advantage of our Q1 Specials. Limited stock is available so reserve yours now!

Get 42 TB of All-Flash high-availability storage for only $18,900. This compact, entry-level TrueNAS X10-HA system is perfect for file-sharing or video editing.

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This TrueNAS M60-HA system delivers an incredible 4 PB of raw storage capacity in 12U, complete with expansion shelves for less than 7 cents/GB. This makes it the ideal choice for video editing, archives, backups, or scientific data. You can also scale up to 22 PB on a single head unit for additional storage.

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Fox Studios Turns to Open Storage and TrueNAS for the Scoring Stage! 
The Newman Scoring Stage at Fox Studios in Los Angeles is famous for producing best-in-class film scores. In order to store and preserve these scores, Fox needed a reliable large-scale storage solution. Find out why Fox chose TrueNAS for this essential task. 🎼

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How to Set Up TrueNAS CORE and Connect to it from Ubuntu
Are you feeling overwhelmed by the setup process? Get step-by-step instructions on the basic setup to get your system up and running!

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TrueNAS SCALE 21.02 Angelfish
Watch Thomas from Lawrence Systems explain the Alpha release of Truenas SCALE and clear up some of the common misconceptions about it.

Streamlining Post Production with TrueNAS 
Learn how creative agency Clockwork 9 eliminated post-production bottlenecks and liberated their workflows with a TrueNAS M40-HA.

TrueNAS Mini XL+ Hardware Overview 
Watch Kevin Stevenson from GetmetheGeek.com give you a brief overview of the TrueNAS Mini XL+ so you can decide if it’s the right storage unit for you.

Latest Releases

Here’s what experts at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) had to say about TrueNAS in their recent validation report:

“The combination of ZFS, open source, and a lean sales force provides efficiencies that enable iXsystems to offer high performance, feature-rich solutions at high value price points. We calculated a significant delta. Based on our testing and analysis, we found that iXsystems can typically offer up to double the performance at half the cost of their major competitors.”

Download the full report

TrueNAS Community Store 
Know someone who loves TrueNAS? Maybe that someone is you. Perfect timing since it’s gift giving season and there’s nothing wrong with giving yourself a gift! Check out our new TrueNAS Community Store and show off your TrueNAS pride. We’ll be adding additional items in the coming year so be on the lookout to score new TrueNAS gear.

eBook on Open Source Storage

This free eBook from iXsystems and ActualTech Media explains how proprietary and cloud storage falls short and why Open Source is a better development model for storage systems. Learn about the advantages of NVMe and NVDIMM storage for the modern enterprise and why businesses need a unified data platform.

Download eBook

Tech-Tip #91
It is recommended to configure SSH and automatic dataset snapshots in TrueNAS before creating a remote replication task. This ensures that both systems can connect to each other and new snapshots are regularly available for replication. To streamline creating simple replication configurations, the replication wizard can assist with creating a new SSH connection and automatically creates a periodic snapshot task for sources that have no existing snapshots.

Learn More about Remote Replication

Links of the Month

• Practical Guide to Storage of Large Amounts of Microscopy Data via Cambridge University Press
• How to install JellyFin on Debian (Docker TrueNAS) via Nath042

Employment Opportunities 
Are you as passionate about Open Source technology as we are? Maybe you’re a perfect fit for one of our open positions. Send your resume our way! We’d love to chat with you more about the opportunities here at iXsystems!

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TrueNAS 12.0 is Released!

TrueNAS 12.0 RELEASE is now available! TrueNAS CORE and TrueNAS Enterprise are now ready for production deployments. The merger of FreeNAS and TrueNAS into a unified software image is officially complete, delivering features such as ZFS Native Crypto, API Keys, Fusion Pools, TrueCommand Cloud Integration, and much more!

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iXsystems Expands TrueNAS Product Line with R-Series Systems and Scale-out HCI Software

The TrueNAS Open Storage portfolio expands with the TrueNAS R-Series storage systems and the TrueNAS SCALE Open Source HyperConverged Infrastructure (HCI) software. The new R-Series storage systems include four models designed for maximum density, performance, Open Storage flexibility, and cost savings. TrueNAS SCALE introduces easy-to-manage hyperconvergence based on scale-out OpenZFS.

Read the Announcement 
TrueNAS R-Series

Recession-proof System Specials on High Availability TrueNAS Systems (While Supplies Last)

During these challenging times, keeping budgets under control is more critical than ever. Therefore, we’re offering two specific system configurations at special prices to answer the call. Both are high-availability and hybrid disk/flash systems, designed for 24×7 availability: the TrueNAS X10-HA offers 84 TB of redundant, entry-level enterprise storage, and a TrueNAS M40-HA is loaded with 1.5 PB. These systems are ready-to-ship in limited quantities and are available while supplies last. Click below for detailed information on each system.

84 TB TRUENAS® X10-HA $13.9K

1.5 PB TRUENAS® M40-HA $99.9K

Latest Releases

Here’s what the experts at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) had to say about TrueNAS in their recent validation report: “The combination of ZFS, open source, and a lean sales force provides efficiencies that enable iXsystems to offer high performance, feature-rich solutions at high value price points. We calculated a significant delta. Based on our testing and analysis, we found that iXsystems can typically offer up to double the performance at half the cost of their major competitors.”

Download the full report here

TrueNAS Open Storage Overview
In this video, we introduce the TrueNAS Open Storage family and describe the main features of TrueNAS CORE, TrueNAS Enterprise, and TrueNAS SCALE. Welcome to the Open Storage revolution!

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Open Storage Economics Advanced with TrueNAS M60
Mike Matchett from TruthInIT interviews iXsystems Executive Vice President Brett Davis regarding storage freedom in TrueNAS Open Storage products, and highlights the latest addition to the TrueNAS M-Series.

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TrueNAS Community Store

We’re excited to announce the opening of the TrueNAS Community Store! We’ll be adding additional items over Q4 2020 so be on the lookout to score new TrueNAS gear.

Shop TrueNAS Store 

Creating TrueNAS CORE Install Media
In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through creating TrueNAS installation media with either a USB stick or blank DVD. This step will allow you to set up TrueNAS CORE on your system.

Watch here now

More webinars

How to Upgrade FreeNAS to TrueNAS by Lawrence Systems
Thomas Lawrence of Lawrence Systems shows you how to update from FreeNAS to the latest TrueNAS 12.0-RELEASE, including your ZFS pools and iocage jails.

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iXsystems Launches Professional-Grade Storage for the Edge with TrueNAS Mini X
E-Channel News meets with iXsystems EVP Brett Davis to discuss the history of iXsystems and TrueNAS, the reasoning behind choosing Linux for TrueNAS SCALE, how TrueNAS can meet the needs of any storage environment, in addition to the latest TrueNAS Mini X.

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eBook on Open Source Storage

This free eBook explains how proprietary and cloud storage falls short and why Open Source is a better development model for storage systems. Learn about the advantages of NVMe/NVDIMM storage for the modern enterprise and why businesses need a unified data platform.

Download eBook

We’re Hiring!
We’re looking for people that are as passionate about Open Source technology as we are. Check out the link below to see what open positions we have and to send us your resume! We’d love to chat with you more about the opportunities here at iXsystems. View Open Positions

Tech-Tip #84
When connecting to the TrueNAS system with SSH or the web Shell, the Console Setup menu is not shown by default. It can be started by the root user or another user with root permissions by typing /etc/netcli

Links of the Month

• TrueNAS 12.0-RELEASE Has Launched! By Lawrence Systems via Lawrence Systems
• Say goodbye to FreeNAS, Upgrading FreeNAS 11.3 to TrueNAS 12 Release via PhasedLogix IT Services
• The OpenZFS Developers Summit 2020 Part 1 via Klara Systems
• FreeBSD Case Study: Netflix via FreeBSD Foundation via FreeBSD Foundation

Quote of the Month
“Throughout multiple storage expansions and Operating System updates, and generally putting TrueNAS through the wringer, we have never lost any data. That demonstrates how stable and reliable ZFS is as a file system and logical volume manager.”

– Ron Simpson, Operations Supervisor at McGill University

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New TrueCommand Release Brings Early Access to Cloud Service and New Logo

TrueCommand was launched in 2019 as a single pane of glass management system for FreeNAS and TrueNAS fleets. Since then, it has been adopted by over fifteen hundred organizations to manage their NAS fleets. TrueCommand can be deployed as a VM or as a Docker container, and is available for Early Access as a Cloud service. Today, we are releasing the TrueCommand 1.3.2 minor update with a brand new logo that compliments the new TrueNAS CORE, Enterprise, and SCALE logo set.

Learn more here

Recession-proof System Specials on High Availability TrueNAS Systems (While Supplies Last)

During these challenging times, keeping budgets under control is more critical than ever. Therefore, we’re offering two specific system configurations at special prices to answer the call. Both are high-availability and hybrid disk/flash systems, designed for 24×7 availability: the TrueNAS X10-HA offers 84 TB of redundant, entry-level enterprise storage, and a TrueNAS M40-HA is loaded with 1.5 PB. These systems are ready-to-ship in limited quantities and are available while supplies last. Click below for detailed information on each system.

84 TB TRUENAS® X10-HA $13.9K

1.5 PB TRUENAS® M40-HA $99.9K

Latest Releases

Here’s what the experts at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) had to say about TrueNAS in their recent validation report: “The combination of ZFS, open source, and a lean sales force provides efficiencies that enable iXsystems to offer high performance, feature-rich solutions at high value price points. We calculated a significant delta. Based on our testing and analysis, we found that iXsystems can typically offer up to double the performance at half the cost of their major competitors.”

Download the full report here

TrueNAS Community Store

We’re excited to announce the opening of the TrueNAS Community Store! We’ll be adding additional items over Q4 2020 so be on the lookout to score new TrueNAS gear.

Shop TrueNAS Store 

Creating TrueNAS CORE Install Media
In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through creating TrueNAS installation media with either a USB stick or blank DVD. This step will allow you to set up TrueNAS CORE on your system.

Watch here now

More videos

TrueNAS CORE 12.0-RC1 Review by Lawrence Systems
Thomas Lawrence of Lawrence Systems reviews the first release candidate of TrueNAS 12.0, and discusses features such as Zstandard compression, enclosure management, and replication tasks.

Watch here now

TrueNAS FreeNAS LAGG & LACP Setup by Lawrence Systems
Thomas Lawrence walks us through setting up Link Aggregation (LAGG) and Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) on the latest TrueNAS CORE 12.0.

Watch here now

eBook on Open Source Storage

This free eBook explains how proprietary and cloud storage falls short and why Open Source is a better development model for storage systems. Learn about the advantages of NVMe/NVDIMM storage for the modern enterprise and why businesses need a unified data platform.

Download it here

On-Demand FreeNAS Training
Online training modules from iXsystems are designed to quickly get you up to speed for getting the most out of your FreeNAS system. Each training module is 30 minutes long and cuts to the core information you need to become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS.

Sign up here

We’re Hiring!
We’re looking for people that are as passionate about Open Source technology as we are. Check out the link below to see what open positions we have and to send us your resume! We’d love to chat with you more about the opportunities here at iXsystems. View open positions here

Tech-Tip #83
To check which interface is attached to a Virtual Machine, start the VM and go to the Shell. Type “ifconfig” and find the tap interface that shows the name of the VM in the description.

Links of the Month

• TrueNAS CORE 12 Install and Basic Setup via Everything Smart Home
• Economics of Open Storage via Enterprise IT World
• OpenZFS Developer Summit 2020

Quote of the Month
“The migration of massive amounts of terabytes wouldn’t have happened without the support of iXsystems.”

– Steven M. Rothstein, Executive Director, John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

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iXsystems Unveils Industry’s Fastest OpenZFS Storage System with Launch of TrueNAS M60

As part of our unification of FreeNAS and TrueNAS, the FreeNAS Minis have been reborn as the TrueNAS Minis, joining the lineup of the much-anticipated third generation of our TrueNAS Mini products, the Mini E and Mini XL+ models! After reviewing customer feedback and requests, we developed the TrueNAS Mini X and added higher capacity drive options (14 TB) to the entire TrueNAS Mini lineup!

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Cross-Site Disaster Recovery with TrueNAS

As part of our unification of FreeNAS and TrueNAS, the FreeNAS Minis have been reborn as the TrueNAS Minis, joining the lineup of the much-anticipated third generation of our TrueNAS Mini products, the Mini E and Mini XL+ models! After reviewing customer feedback and requests, we developed the TrueNAS Mini X and added higher capacity drive options (14 TB) to the entire TrueNAS Mini lineup!

Learn more here

Recession-proof System Specials on High Availability TrueNAS Systems (While Supplies Last)

We’ve put together two specials to help you keep your TCO low and your budget in check during these challenging times. Choose between a 154 TB TrueNAS X10-HA that offers a fully redundant infrastructure that can fit any budget and our All-Flash TrueNAS M40-HA, the powerhouse TrueNAS M-Series system that offers an incredible amount of storage to expand capacity combined with an incredibly economical TCO that beats virtually any cloud infrastructure. These systems are pre-built and ready to ship to help you keep things moving at your company. Order yours today to get highly redundant enterprise-class storage and performance at the lowest TCO in the industry.

154 TB TRUENAS® X10-HA $14.9K

40 TB ALL-FLASH TRUENAS® M40-HA $29.9K

TrueNAS CORE is Ready for Deployment — Dive In!
TrueNAS 12.0 RC1 features minor fixes from BETA and several performance improvements to ZFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NFS have been integrated. Snapshot your pool, backup your data, and try it out!

Learn more here
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TrueNAS SCALE Release Plan
While TrueNAS 12.0 (CORE and Enterprise editions) continues its release march, we’re also busy getting the first version of TrueNAS SCALE into the hands of many tech-savvy users. TrueNAS SCALE 20.10-ALPHA is planned for October and will be codenamed “Angelfish”.

Learn more here

Latest Releases

Here’s what the experts at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) had to say about TrueNAS in their recent validation report: “The combination of ZFS, open source, and a lean sales force provides efficiencies that enable iXsystems to offer high performance, feature-rich solutions at high value price points. We calculated a significant delta. Based on our testing and analysis, we found that iXsystems can typically offer up to double the performance at half the cost of their major competitors.”

Download the full report here

iXsystems Appoints Chin-Fah Heoh as TrueNAS APAC General Manager to Address Regional Demand for Open Storage
iXsystems announced the appointment of Chin-Fah Heoh as General Manager for the APAC region. In his new position, Mr. Heoh will be tasked with expanding the company’s partner ecosystem and presence as demand for Enterprise-class Open Storage accelerates among Asia Pacific businesses and governmental organizations.

Read more here

TrueNAS 12.0 & TrueNAS M60 Announced by StorageReview
Adam Armstrong of StorageReview gives us a preview of the new hardware features in the latest addition to the TrueNAS M-Series.

Learn more here

FreeBSD Based FreeNAS Becomes TrueNAS Interview with TFiR
Swapnil Bhartiya, host of TFiR, recently sat down with iXsystems Executive Vice President Brett Davis to discuss what’s in store for the future of FreeNAS and TrueNAS, and other enterprise products in the works.

Watch here now

More webinars

The TrueNAS Stickers & T-Shirt Giveaway
Enter our very first TrueNAS giveaway for a chance to win TrueNAS Stickers and a T-shirt of your size! The more entries you have increases your chances of becoming a winner!

Enter the TrueNAS Stickers Giveaway

How to Install TrueNAS CORE
Check out our first entry in the new TrueNAS how-to tutorial series. This video will show you the basic requirements on getting started and installing TrueNAS CORE on a new system.

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TrueNAS Mini X Plus Review by Lawrence Systems
Thomas Lawrence of Lawrence Systems reviews the latest TrueNAS Mini X+ and demonstrates its hardware features, drive enclosures, network ports, and iKVM/HTML5 IPMI, as well as performing some benchmark tests.

Watch here now

eBook on Open Source Storage

This free eBook explains how proprietary and cloud storage falls short and why Open Source is a better development model for storage systems. Learn about the advantages of NVMe/NVDIMM storage for the modern enterprise and why businesses need a unified data platform.

Download it here

On-Demand FreeNAS Training
Online training modules from iXsystems are designed to quickly get you up to speed for getting the most out of your FreeNAS system. Each training module is 30 minutes long and cuts to the core information you need to become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS.

Sign up here

We’re Hiring!
We’re looking for people that are as passionate as we are about Open Source technology. Check out the link below to see what open positions we have and to send us your resume! We’d love to chat with you more about the opportunities here at iXsystems. View open positions here

Tech-Tip #82
SSH keys are not stored in the configuration database and must be backed up separately. System host keys are files with names beginning with ssh_host_ in /usr/local/etc/ssh/. The root user keys are stored in /root/.ssh.

Links of the Month

• iXsystems TrueNAS Mini X and Mini X+ Launched via StorageReview
• (Video) How to install TrueNAS CORE on VMWare ESXi 7.0 via Nhan Nguyen
• (Video) Customize TrueNAS dashboard with Grafana and influxDB via Di-Ai-Why

Quote of the Month
“TrueNAS reduced our downtime dramatically. We have never had a single second of unscheduled downtime due to a TrueNAS software or hardware issue across all six devices over more than 18 months of continuous 24/7 production use”

– Justin Higgins, Squiz Hosting Manager

The post In-Depth Look at TrueNAS Mini X | Cross-Site Disaster Recovery with TrueNAS – Issue #85 appeared first on TrueNAS - Welcome to the Open Storage Era.

The post Fastest ZFS Platform Unveiled & Brand New Mini-X Launched – Issue #84 appeared first on TrueNAS - Welcome to the Open Storage Era.

TrueNAS CORE makes ZFS Easy

Jim Salter of Ars Technica reviews TrueNAS CORE and documents the installation process, configuring Access Control List, as well as CORE’s ZFS features.

Read more here
Download TrueNAS CORE 12 BETA (Not Production Ready)

Recession-proof System Specials on High Availability TrueNAS Systems (While Supplies Last)

We’ve put together two specials to help you keep your TCO low and your budget in check during these challenging times. Choose between a 154 TB TrueNAS X10-HA that offers a fully redundant infrastructure that can fit any budget and our All-Flash TrueNAS M40-HA, the powerhouse TrueNAS M-Series system that offers an incredible amount of storage to expand capacity combined with an incredibly economical TCO that beats virtually any cloud infrastructure. These systems are pre-built and ready to ship to help you keep things moving at your company. Order yours today to get highly redundant enterprise-class storage and performance at the lowest TCO in the industry.

154 TB TRUENAS® X10-HA $14.9K

40 TB ALL-FLASH TRUENAS® M40-HA $29.9K

FreeNAS 11.3-U4.1 is now available
The FreeNAS Team has made available the fourth update to FreeNAS 11.3, a maintenance release featuring over 130 bug fixes and upgrades including Samba, Google Team Drive with Cloud Sync, unlocking Self-Encrypting Drives, Recursive Replication, and more. This release includes a hotfix addressing a middleware replication and permissions issue.

Release Notes

Latest Releases

TrueNAS CORE	12.0-BETA1	Release Notes
TrueNAS	11.3-U4.1	Release Notes
TrueCommand	1.3	Release Notes

TrueNAS CORE 12.0 Install Tutorial by Craft Computing

Craft Computing walks us through the installation process of TrueNAS CORE, setting up a pool, shares, users, and permissions.

Watch here now 

Here’s what the experts at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) had to say about TrueNAS in their recent validation report: “The combination of ZFS, open source, and a lean sales force provides efficiencies that enable iXsystems to offer high performance, feature-rich solutions at high value price points. We calculated a significant delta. Based on our testing and analysis, we found that iXsystems can typically offer up to double the performance at half the cost of their major competitors.”

Download the full report here

iXsystems FreeNAS Mini XL+ Review: 8-bay ZFS Power for Pros
Jon Jacobi of ITEnterpriser reviews the FreeNAS Mini XL+ model, an 8-bay ZFS powered system designed for serious storage for the small and home office.

Learn more here

What is TrueNAS SCALE and How Does it Compare to TrueNAS CORE? by Lawrence Systems
Thomas Lawrence of Lawrence Systems discusses the upcoming TrueNAS SCALE, its cluster and container features, and what differentiates it from the new TrueNAS CORE.

Watch here now

More webinars

My biggest server build yet! 88TB TrueNAS CORE Build by Craft Computing
Craft Computing is back again with another TrueNAS video, this time walking us through an 88TB server build with Xeon E5 CPUs, NVMe, and 128 GB ECC memory.

Watch here now

TrueNAS CORE 12 Plex Setup & ACL Permissions by Lawrence Systems
Thomas walks us through setting up Plex Media Server from the TrueNAS CORE plugins, explaining how jails work, and configuring the Access Control List permissions options.

Watch here now

eBook on Open Source Storage

This free eBook explains how proprietary and cloud storage falls short and why Open Source is a better development model for storage systems. Learn about the advantages of NVMe/NVDIMM storage for the modern enterprise and why businesses need a unified data platform.

Download it here

On-Demand FreeNAS Training
Online training modules from iXsystems are designed to quickly get you up to speed for getting the most out of your FreeNAS system. Each training module is 30 minutes long and cuts to the core information you need to become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS.

Sign up here

We’re Hiring!
We’re looking for people that are as passionate as we are about Open Source technology. Check out the link below to see what open positions we have and to send us your resume! We’d love to chat with you more about the opportunities here at iXsystems. View open positions here

Tech-Tip #80
Reporting data is frequently written and should not be stored on the boot pool or operating system device.

Links of the Month

• TrueNAS CORE will soon replace FreeNAS—and we test the beta via Ars Technica
• Lawrence Systems & Craft Computing Talking Heads Episode 141
• An Introduction to ZFS A Place to Start via ServeTheHome

Quote of the Month
“Our previous solution made expansion very difficult, and would have required multiple servers, splitting up storage between them. With the TrueNAS, we can very easily extend our volume as much as needed by adding drives and expansion shelves.”

– Ben Diger, Broadcast Engineer at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota

The post Ars Technica: “TrueNAS CORE makes ZFS Easy” – Issue #83 appeared first on TrueNAS - Welcome to the Open Storage Era.

Be One of the First to Test Drive TrueNAS 12.0 BETA

We are excited to announce that TrueNAS 12.0 BETA has hit both the target date and our quality goals. The BETA release has completed two full cycles of QA (the same as FreeNAS 11.3 RC1) and testing from almost 1,000 users. As the official release is near, we invite you to test it out and browse around the new documentation hub.

Learn more here
Download TrueNAS CORE 12 BETA (Not Production Ready)

Recession-proof System Specials on High Availability TrueNAS Systems (While Supplies Last)

We’ve put together two specials to help you keep your TCO low and your budget in check during these challenging times. Choose between an 11 TB All-Flash TrueNAS X10-HA that offers a fully redundant infrastructure that can fit any budget and our TrueNAS M40-HA, the powerhouse TrueNAS M-Series system that offers an incredible amount of storage to expand capacity combined with an incredibly economical TCO that beats virtually any cloud infrastructure. These systems are pre-built and ready to ship to help you keep things moving at your company. Order yours today to get highly redundant enterprise-class storage and performance at the lowest TCO in the industry.

11 TB TRUENAS® X10-HA $9.9K

1 PB TRUENAS® M40-HA $69.9K

TrueCommand 1.3 Provides Seamless Management of TrueNAS CORE, Enterprise, and SCALE
TrueCommand 1.3 extends TrueCommand to TrueNAS CORE, Enterprise, and SCALE and enables hybrid cloud operations. Many other improvements such as a smarter dashboard, scrub and replication monitoring, and datasets monitoring, significantly simplify storage operations.

Learn more here

Latest Releases

TrueNAS CORE	12.0-BETA1	Release Notes
TrueNAS	11.3-U3.2	Release Notes
TrueCommand	1.3	Release Notes

TrueNAS 12.0 BETA & The New Release Schedule by Lawrence Systems

Thomas Lawrence of Lawrence Systems tries out the first BETA of TrueNAS CORE 12.0 and discusses the upcoming release schedule.

Watch here now

Here’s what the experts at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) had to say about TrueNAS in their recent validation report: “The combination of ZFS, open source, and a lean sales force provides efficiencies that enable iXsystems to offer high performance, feature-rich solutions at high value price points. We calculated a significant delta. Based on our testing and analysis, we found that iXsystems can typically offer up to double the performance at half the cost of their major competitors.”

Download the full report here

More webinars

Building a Lab Part 1 Planning with TrueNAS and VMWare ESXi
In Part 1 of their Building a Lab series, Nick Fusco of ServeTheHome shares why they chose to build a lab with TrueNAS, VMware, and Pfsense, highlighting ZFS and native support for iSCSI.

Read more here

eBook on Open Source Storage

This free eBook explains how proprietary and cloud storage falls short and why Open Source is a better development model for storage systems. Learn about the advantages of NVMe/NVDIMM storage for the modern enterprise and why businesses need a unified data platform.

Download it here

On-Demand FreeNAS Training
Online training modules from iXsystems are designed to quickly get you up to speed for getting the most out of your FreeNAS system. Each training module is 30 minutes long and cuts to the core information you need to become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS.

Sign up here

We’re Hiring!
We’re looking for people that are as passionate as we are about Open Source technology. Check out the link below to see what open positions we have and to send us your resume! We’d love to chat with you more about the opportunities here at iXsystems. View open positions here

Tech-Tip #79
Before creating a pool, determine the level of required redundancy, how many disks will be added, and if any data exists on those disks. Creating a pool overwrites disk data, so save any required data to different media before adding disks to a pool.

Links of the Month

• TrueNAS Core 12 Nightly: New Features and Differences From FreeNAS & TrueNAS via Lawrence Systems
• How to install Nextcloud on FreeNAS in an iocage jail with hardened security via Samuel Dowling
• TrueNAS CORE Key Features Overview via StorageReview
• TrueNAS CORE 12 on HPE MicroServer Gen10 Plus via StorageReview
• The RMC Retro Sleeper Server – Tour and FreeNAS Setup via RetroManCave

Quote of the Month
“We use Veeam for straight backups and recovery. The two systems work great together. After implementing Veeam and my TrueNAS, I was getting backups within 30 minutes. The setup was super easy and the TrueNAS is much more stable than my old backup solution.”

– Jeff Carroll, IT Manager, Sudenga Industries

The post TrueNAS 12.0 BETA is Ready for Testing! | TrueCommand 1.3 Adds TrueNAS & Cloud Operation Support – Issue #82 appeared first on TrueNAS - Welcome to the Open Storage Era.

TrueNAS is Multi-OS
With the introduction of TrueNAS SCALE it’s official! TrueNAS is officially becoming a multiple operating system platform built on both FreeBSD and Linux. TrueNAS CORE will focus on continuing the FreeNAS legacy under the TrueNAS Open Storage family, TrueNAS Enterprise will focus on providing scale-up infrastructure with high availability and enterprise support, and SCALE will become a new Open Source project, focusing on expanding TrueNAS to allow a scale-out infrastructure on a Debian and Gluster base.

Learn more here

Recession-proof System Specials on High Availability TrueNAS Systems (While Supplies Last)

We’ve put together two specials to help you keep your TCO low and your budget in check during these challenging times. Choose between an 11 TB All-Flash TrueNAS X10-HA that offers a fully redundant infrastructure that can fit any budget and our TrueNAS M40-HA, the powerhouse TrueNAS M-Series system that offers an incredible amount of storage to expand capacity combined with an incredibly economical TCO that beats virtually any cloud infrastructure. These systems are pre-built and ready to ship to help you keep things moving at your company. Order yours today to get highly redundant enterprise-class storage and performance at the lowest TCO in the industry.

11 TB TRUENAS® X10-HA $9.9K | 1 PB TRUENAS® M40-HA $69.9K

TrueNAS CORE 12.0 Demo by Kris Moore

Want to learn more about TrueNAS CORE? Kris Moore, our VP of Engineering at iXsystems, gave a presentation to Storage Review detailing the new features you can expect from the upcoming TrueNAS CORE 12.0 release. TrueNAS CORE 12.0 will be the first TrueNAS release under the new unified TrueNAS Open Storage family, and features many changes such as enhanced ZFS pools management, improved API functionality, TrueCommand Cloud integration, and much more.

Watch here now | Download TrueNAS CORE (Nightly)

Latest Releases

The New TrueNAS Logo Unveiled

Without further ado, we’re proud to unveil our new TrueNAS CORE (and Open Storage), TrueNAS Enterprise, and TrueNAS SCALE logos, dubbed “the shark tanks” or “shark boxes”.

Learn more here

Here’s what the experts at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) had to say about TrueNAS in their recent validation report: “The combination of ZFS, open source, and a lean sales force provides efficiencies that enable iXsystems to offer high performance, feature-rich solutions at high value price points. We calculated a significant delta. Based on our testing and analysis, we found that iXsystems can typically offer up to double the performance at half the cost of their major competitors.”

Download the full report here

More webinars

TrueNAS CORE 12 Nightly: New Features and Differences From FreeNAS & TrueNAS by Lawrence Systems

Thomas Lawrence of Lawrence Systems tries out a preview of TrueNAS CORE, and breaks down some of the differences from the original FreeNAS and TrueNAS in his latest video.

Learn more here

Setting Up Windows iSCSI Block Shares on TrueNAS & FreeNAS
In this tutorial, we’ll cover the basics of iSCSI, configuring iSCSI on TrueNAS, and setting up access from a Windows machine. Designating a Zvol as an iSCSI drive on Windows allows you to utilize the ZFS rollback feature and protect your system from ransomware or data loss.

Learn more here

eBook on Open Source Storage

This free eBook explains how proprietary and cloud storage falls short and why Open Source is a better development model for storage systems. Learn about the advantages of NVMe/NVDIMM storage for the modern enterprise and why businesses need a unified data platform.

Download it here

On-Demand FreeNAS Training
Online training modules from iXsystems are designed to quickly get you up to speed for getting the most out of your FreeNAS system. Each training module is 30 minutes long and cuts to the core information you need to become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS.

Sign up here

We’re Hiring!
We’re looking for people that are as passionate as we are about Open Source technology. Check out the link below to see what open positions we have and to send us your resume! We’d love to chat with you more about the opportunities here at iXsystems. View open positions here

Tech-Tip #78
Overprovisioning SSDs can be done using the disk_resize command in the Shell. This can be useful for many different scenarios. Perhaps the most useful benefit of overprovisioning is that it can extend the life of an SSD greatly.

Links of the Month

• iXsystems TrueNAS SCALE revealed via StorageReview
• StorageReview Podcast #50: Kris Moore, iXsystems
• Q30 Storinator, Control4 Home Automation with FreeNAS and PLEX via r/homelab
• What is ZFS? The File System other File Systems Aspire to via ITEnterpriser

Quote of the Month
“The migration of massive amounts of terabytes wouldn’t have happened without the support of iXsystems.”

– Steven M. Rothstein, John F Kennedy Library Foundation, Executive Director

The post TrueNAS CORE Demo & TrueNAS SCALE Revealed – Issue #81 appeared first on TrueNAS - Welcome to the Open Storage Era.

FreeNAS 11.3-U3.1 is now available
We are pleased to announce that FreeNAS 11.3-U3.1 is now available! Version 11.3-U3 is a maintenance release that includes over 100 bug fixes and improvements, with U3.1 as an added hotfix release for an SMB share issue. Please be sure to read the list of changes before updating.

Download Now | Release Notes

More Releases

Special Pricing on TrueNAS X10 and M40 Systems

We have 11 TB All-Flash TrueNAS X10-HA and 1 PB TrueNAS M40-HA systems pre-built and ready to ship! Order yours now to get enterprise-class storage and performance at the lowest TCO in the industry.

11 TB TRUENAS® X10-HA $9.9K | 1 PB TRUENAS® M40-HA $69.9K

Open Source Infrastructure is Recession-Proof
Whether your business is growing or contracting during this challenging time, see how Open Source solutions can offer a lifeline to your projects and budgets in times of economic uncertainty.

Read more here

Understanding How OpenZFS Keeps Your Data Safe
Veteran technology writer Jim Salter wrote an excellent guide on the ZFS file system’s features and performance that we absolutely had to share.

Learn more here

Here’s what the experts at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) had to say about TrueNAS in their recent validation report: “The combination of ZFS, open source, and a lean sales force provides efficiencies that enable iXsystems to offer high performance, feature-rich solutions at high value price points. We calculated a significant delta. Based on our testing and analysis, we found that iXsystems can typically offer up to double the performance at half the cost of their major competitors.”

Download the full report here

FreeNAS 11 Rsync Server Setup by Lawrence Systems

Thomas Lawrence of Lawrence Systems dives into the Rsync file transfer service on FreeNAS. In this demonstration he shows us how to Rsync between FreeNAS systems and to a Linux system.

Watch here now

More webinars

Setting Up Windows iSCSI Block Shares on TrueNAS & FreeNAS
In this tutorial, we’ll cover the basics of iSCSI, configuring iSCSI on TrueNAS, and setting up access from a Windows machine.

Learn more here

Self-Hosted S3 Object Storage on FreeNAS with Minio by Lawrence Systems
Thomas Lawrence walks us through configuring Minio S3 Object Storage on a TrueNAS or FreeNAS system.

Watch here now

eBook on Open Source Storage

This free eBook explains how proprietary and cloud storage falls short and why Open Source is a better development model for storage systems. Learn about the advantages of NVMe/NVDIMM storage for the modern enterprise and why businesses need a unified data platform.

Download it here

On-Demand FreeNAS Training
Online training modules from iXsystems are designed to quickly get you up to speed for getting the most out of your FreeNAS system. Each training module is 30 minutes long and cuts to the core information you need to become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS.

Sign up here

We’re Hiring!
Open Source technology is our passion, and we’re looking for more people to join the iXsystems Team! View open positions here

Tech-Tip #77
The task manager shows a list of tasks performed by the FreeNAS system starting with the most recent. Click a task name to display its start time, progress, finish time, and whether the task succeeded. If a task fails, the error status is shown.

Links of the Month

• ZFS 101—Understanding ZFS storage and performance via Ars Technica
• FreeNAS 11.3 – How to create Dataset and mount via Nhan Nguyen
• VR Game Storage by SaberKitten (FreeNAS Build) via Knights Of The Awesomeness
• Creating iSCSI Storage with FreeNAS v11.3 | TSR via BTNHD

Quote of the Month
“Throughout multiple storage expansions and Operating System updates, and generally putting TrueNAS through the wringer, we have never lost any data. That demonstrates how stable and reliable ZFS is as a file system and logical volume manager.”

– Ron Simpson, Operations Supervisor at McGill University School of Computer Science

The post Recession Proof Storage | FreeNAS 11.3-U3.1 Now Available – Issue #80 appeared first on TrueNAS - Welcome to the Open Storage Era.

TrueNAS CORE is the new FreeNAS

Introducing TrueNAS CORE, the next generation in Open Source storage technology. TrueNAS CORE inherits everything you know and love about FreeNAS, while bringing FreeNAS into the TrueNAS Open Storage family of products. Read our blog post to get all the latest information on TrueNAS Open Storage and to hear about all of the great new features to expect in TrueNAS CORE.

>> Read more here
>> Download the TrueNAS CORE Preview Image (Not for Production Use)

You Can Influence the TrueNAS CORE Roadmap!
Now that you know TrueNAS CORE is on the way, we need your help with submitting suggestions and any bugs encountered. This is your chance to help contribute and democratize enterprise storage! Find out how to submit a ticket at the link below.

Help us improve TrueNAS CORE

FreeNAS 11.3-U2.1 is available
This is a hotfix release which addresses a critical issue when exporting and destroying ZFS pools. The second update to 11.3 also includes 150 updates, bug fixes, and improvements.

Learn more here

FreeNAS 11.3-U2.1 is available
This is a hotfix release which addresses a critical issue when exporting and destroying ZFS pools. The second update to 11.3 also includes 150 updates, bug fixes, and improvements.

Learn more here

TrueNAS 11.3-U2 is Generally Available


TrueNAS 11.3 represents another major advancement in the quality and functionality of the leading Open Storage platform. TrueNAS 11.3 supports the very popular API and Web UI improvements of the previous FreeNAS release. It also introduces easy-setup wizards, major replication improvements, and over 500 other enhancements.

Learn more here

FreeNAS Spare Parts Build: Testing ZFS With Imbalanced VDEVs and Mismatched Drives

Thomas Lawrence of Lawrence Systems shows off a FreeNAS build with various spare parts, and does ZFS testing with vdevs and mismatched drives.

Watch here now

Here’s what the experts at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) had to say about TrueNAS in their recent validation report: “The combination of ZFS, open source, and a lean sales force provides efficiencies that enable iXsystems to offer high performance, feature-rich solutions at high value price points. We calculated a significant delta. Based on our testing and analysis, we found that iXsystems can typically offer up to double the performance at half the cost of their major competitors.”

Download the full report here

Setting Up Users, Permissions, and ACLs on FreeNAS
In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to set up Users, Permissions, and ACLs in FreeNAS. ACL stands for Access Control List, which designates access control entries for users and administrators on FreeNAS systems, specifically for Windows SMB shares.

Learn more here

More webinars

Building a TrueNAS CORE 8-bay mATX ZFS NAS
Patrick Kennedy of ServeTheHome walks us through his TrueNAS CORE mATX build with a Silverstone chassis and 8 drive bays.

Read more here

FreeNAS Odroid-H2 Home Build
User LifeNetEng installs FreeNAS onto an Odroid-H2 system to back up his home video files and walks us through the configuration process of link aggregation, NFS file sharing, and running a VM.

Watch here now

Moving, Backing Up, & Restoring FreeNAS iocage Jails
Thomas of Lawrence Systems shows us how to manage iocage jails via command line on FreeNAS 11.3.

Watch here now

eBook on Open Source Storage
This free eBook explains how proprietary and cloud storage falls short and why Open Source is a better development model for storage systems. Learn about the advantages of NVMe/NVDIMM storage for the modern enterprise and why businesses need a unified data platform.

Download it here

On-Demand FreeNAS Training
Online training modules from iXsystems are designed to quickly get you up to speed for getting the most out of your FreeNAS system. Each training module is 30 minutes long and cuts to the core information you need to become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS.

Sign up here

We’re Hiring!
Open Source technology is our passion, and we’re looking for more people to join the iXsystems Team! View open positions here

Tech-Tip #76
Making changes to the network interface the web interface uses can result in losing connection to the FreeNAS system! Misconfigured network settings may require command line knowledge or physical access to the FreeNAS system to fix. Be very careful when configuring Interfaces and Link Aggregations. More info in documentation.

Links of the Month

• Still using FreeNAS and TrueCommand as my storage solution via JayAreTV
• TrueNAS CORE ZFS NAS Build Walkthrough in a SilverStone CS381 Chassis via ServeTheHome
• How to Install Nextcloud Plugin on FreeNAS 11.3 & Enforce HTTPS via Nhan Nguyen
• FreeNAS on Odyssey X86 SBC via ExplainingComputers

Quote of the Month
“The most compelling extra feature we found with TrueNAS was that it’s based on OpenZFS. Unlike traditional RAID systems, when TrueNAS detects an error from a hard drive it not only corrects it but simultaneously writes the correction back to the hard disk. This is a valuable feature that mostly goes unnoticed but is critically important in large storage systems.”

– Alan Brown, Networking and Unix Systems Manager, Mullard Space Science Laboratory at UCL

The post TrueNAS CORE Will be the Best Free NAS Ever – Issue #79 appeared first on TrueNAS - Welcome to the Open Storage Era.

The post FreeNAS 11.3 U2 Release | New TrueNAS vCenter Plugin – Issue #78 appeared first on TrueNAS - Welcome to the Open Storage Era.

iXsystems is proud to announce the next phase of evolution for TrueNAS and FreeNAS. Later this year, we will unify both products into a single software image and brand name. Introducing the two editions of TrueNAS Open Storage: TrueNAS CORE and TrueNAS Enterprise.

Learn more here

Update from iXsystems CEO on COVID-19 Response
iXsystems CEO, Mike Lauth, reaches out to iXsystems customers, partners, friends, and the FreeNAS Community at-large with an update on the iXsystems response to the Novel Coronavirus pandemic.

Read more here

Special Pricing on TrueNAS X10 and M40 Systems

Until the end of March, we have 120 TB TrueNAS X10 and 800 TB TrueNAS M40 systems pre-built and ready to ship! Order yours now to get enterprise-class storage and performance at the lowest TCO in the industry.

120 TB TRUENAS® X10-HA $15K | 800 TB TRUENAS® M40-HA $100K

Introducing FreeNAS Mini E+ and All-Flash Minis

The FreeNAS Mini E+ is built off of the same whisper-quiet enclosure as the FreeNAS Mini E; however, the Mini E+ has double the cores and threads, a higher CPU base frequency, and increased memory capacity and speed. In addition, the FreeNAS Mini product family can now be configured with SSDs in the All-Flash model.

Learn more here

Here’s what the experts at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) had to say about TrueNAS in their recent validation report: “The combination of ZFS, open source, and a lean sales force provides efficiencies that enable iXsystems to offer high performance, feature-rich solutions at high value price points. We calculated a significant delta. Based on our testing and analysis, we found that iXsystems can typically offer up to double the performance at half the cost of their major competitors.”

Download the full report here

TrueNAS M50 High Availability Demo by Lawrence Systems


Thomas Lawrence of Lawrence Systems continues his review of the TrueNAS M50 storage appliance, this time demonstrating the high-availability (HA) and failover feature.

Watch here now

More webinars

Microsoft Active Directory Security Changes Require TrueNAS & FreeNAS Updates
FreeNAS and TrueNAS users that utilize Active Directory should update to version 11.3 (or 11.2-U8) to avoid potential disruption of their networks when updating to the latest versions of Windows software.

Read more here

Latest Releases

Video: FreeNAS Users, Permissions, ACLs

Our latest YouTube video will show you how to configure users/groups, permissions, and ACLs properly on the latest version of FreeNAS, 11.3.

Watch here now

How to Set Up Windows SMB Shares on FreeNAS

In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to set up an SMB share on your FreeNAS machine and connect with a Windows client.

Learn more here

eBook on Open Source Storage
This free eBook explains how proprietary and cloud storage falls short and why Open Source is a better development model for storage systems. Learn about the advantages of NVMe/NVDIMM storage for the modern enterprise and why businesses need a unified data platform.

Download it here

On-Demand FreeNAS Training
Online training modules from iXsystems are designed to quickly get you up to speed for getting the most out of your FreeNAS system. Each training module is 30 minutes long and cuts to the core information you need to become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS.

Sign up here

We’re Hiring!
Open Source technology is our passion, and we’re looking for more people to join the iXsystems Team! View open positions here

Tech-Tip #74
When connecting to the system with SSH or the web Shell, the Console Setup menu is not shown by default. It can be started by the root user or another user with root permissions by typing /etc/netcli. The Console Setup menu can be disabled by unchecking Enable Console Menu in System ➞ Advanced. More info in Documentation

Links of the Month

• (Video) FreeNAS 11.3-U1 Updates and Jails via Lawrence Systems
• (Video) How to Configure Jail VLANs with FreeNAS 11.3 via Lawrence Systems
• FreeBSD Around the World, and Why You Should Get Involved!
• FuryBSD reviewed by It’s FOSS and DistroWatch

Quote of the Month
“TrueNAS allows us to virtualize everything we do in our manufacturing operations from just a single storage unit. We are running VMware instances to multiple client systems on the production floor and throughout our entire operation as fast as our network allows. TrueNAS gives us an edge.”

– John Konc, Head of Computing and Information Systems, A&C Mold

The post FreeNAS and TrueNAS are Merging – Issue #77 appeared first on TrueNAS - Welcome to the Open Storage Era.

TrueNAS & FreeNAS 11.3 Release Delivers Wizards, Plugins, and Accelerated Replication

Building upon the very popular API and Web UI improvements of the previous release, 11.3 introduces easy-setup wizards, major replication improvements, and over 500 other enhancements.

Learn more here

TrueCommand Gets Dockerized with v1.2 Release

TrueCommand 1.2 has been released and is now available as a VM or a Docker image, and will soon be available as a cloud service.

Learn more here

iXsystems Enters 2020 with Sustained Growth in TrueNAS Revenues
iXsystems starts 2020 strongly after four years of more than 50% compound annual revenue growth in its TrueNAS® product family. This momentum reflects the steady adoption of Open Source storage, the cutting-edge TrueNAS M-Series, and power-efficient TrueNAS X-Series storage appliances.

Read more here

Here’s what the experts at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) had to say about TrueNAS in their recent validation report: “The combination of ZFS, open source, and a lean sales force provides efficiencies that enable iXsystems to offer high performance, feature-rich solutions at high value price points. We calculated a significant delta. Based on our testing and analysis, we found that iXsystems can typically offer up to double the performance at half the cost of their major competitors.”

Download the full report here

TrueNAS M50 Software Review by Lawrence Systems


Thomas Lawrence continues his review of the TrueNAS M50 by highlighting its robust software capabilities and demonstrating high availability, enclosure management, and more.

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FreeNAS Plugins Development
Plugins are a technology for easily and securely deploying 3rd party applications directly on FreeNAS and TrueNAS storage systems. Users can use the web interface to deploy, start, stop, and update applications, along with configuration tasks such as assigning storage to them.

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Plex Permissions in FreeNAS 11.3
Plex Media Server is a popular Plugin available for FreeNAS, allowing the user to stream media directly from their FreeNAS system. Learn how to configure your permissions properly for Plex with the latest FreeNAS release.

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TrueNAS Quick Overview
A quick and straightforward overview of everything TrueNAS has to offer in 2 minutes.

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eBook on Open Source Storage
This free eBook explains how proprietary and cloud storage falls short and why Open Source is a better development model for storage systems. Learn about the advantages of NVMe/NVDIMM storage for the modern enterprise and why businesses need a unified data platform.

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On-Demand FreeNAS Training
Online training modules from iXsystems are designed to quickly get you up to speed for getting the most out of your FreeNAS system. Each training module is 30 minutes long and cuts to the core information you need to become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS.

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We’re Hiring!
Open Source technology is our passion, and we’re looking for more people to join the iXsystems Team! View open positions here

Tech-Tip #73
The encryption key file and passphrase are required to decrypt the pool. If the pool can’t be decrypted, it cannot be re-imported after a failed upgrade or lost config. So, save a copy of the key and remember the passphrase! More info at FreeNAS Documentation

Links of the Month

• VFX Artist Builds: Lightning Fast Freenas Server via Tim van Helsdingen
• FreeNAS 11.3 Overview via Lawrence Systems
• Is anyone using FreeNAS in production? via r/freenas
• FreeNAS ZFS Pools RAIDZ Capacity, Integrity, and Performance

Quote of the Month
“We liked the built-in snapshots and data integrity features that ZFS had to offer. We are very familiar with FreeBSD, which we used as a diskless platform for all of our teaching workstations. The fact that TrueNAS is rooted in those technologies was a very big selling point for us in regard to administration and stability.”

– Ron Simpson, Operations Supervisor at McGill University

The post TrueNAS & FreeNAS 11.3 Release Delivers Wizards, Plugins, and Accelerated Replication – Issue #76 appeared first on TrueNAS - Welcome to the Open Storage Era.

TrueNAS Performance Earns Praise from ESG

The Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) provides independent validation of the TrueNAS M50’s incredible cost-optimized performance and features in this new report.

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• How to Install and Configure FreeNAS via OS Radar
• FreeNAS: Backup Jails Automatically Using iocage via digiMoot
• Proxmox and FreeNAS Combo Server (video) via Craft Computing
• Plex Media Server on FreeNAS via Plex.TV

– Rob C, Information Technology

The post TrueNAS Performance Earns ESG Praise – Issue #75 appeared first on TrueNAS - Welcome to the Open Storage Era.

FreeNAS Plans – 2020 and Beyond!
We have some exciting news to share with you! Kris Moore, VP of Engineering, breaks down what’s on the horizon for FreeNAS in 2020. It includes major updates to ZFS, performance improvements, and much more.

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FreeNAS Hardware Guide
In celebration of the upcoming FreeNAS 11.3 release, we have brought together the knowledge of in-house FreeNAS experts and top blog posts to produce the first comprehensive FreeNAS Hardware Guide. The Guide complements existing documentation from both the community and FreeNAS.

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FreeNAS 11.2-U7 is now available
The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the availability of the seventh update to FreeNAS 11.2. This is a bug fix release which addresses Windows ACL, OAuth, UI issues, and several others.

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Lawrence Systems Review: 40TB FreeNAS Mini-E NAS

Thomas Lawrence reviews the new FreeNAS Mini-E and sets up a Plex Server.

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FreeNAS with iSCSI for Steam Games Library
Thomas Lawrence tries out iSCSI on FreeNAS to store his library of Steam PC games.

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FreeNAS Centralised Management – TrueCommand 1.1 release overview
User Lewis Barclay reviews the latest version of TrueCommand with a walkthrough of the installation process and adding a FreeNAS system.

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eBook on Open Source Storage by iXsystems and ActualTech Media
This free eBook explains how proprietary and cloud storage falls short and why Open Source is a better development model for storage systems. Learn about the advantages of NVMe/NVDIMM storage for the modern enterprise and why businesses need a unified data platform.

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On-Demand FreeNAS Training
Online training modules from iXsystems are designed to quickly get you up to speed for getting the most out of your FreeNAS system. Each training module is 30 minutes long and cuts to the core information you need to become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS.

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Tech-Tip #71
It is important to use the web interface or the Console Setup menu for all configuration changes. FreeNAS uses a configuration database to store its settings. While it is possible to use the command line to modify the configuration, changes made at the command line are not written to the configuration database. This means that any changes made at the command line will not persist after a reboot and will be overwritten by the values in the configuration database during an upgrade

Links of the Month

• FreeNAS 11.3-BETA1 Review via Lawrence Systems
• The Future of OpenZFS and FreeBSD via Allan Jude at EuroBSDcon
• FreeBSD Journal Sept/Oct 2019 via FreeBSD Foundation
• Free Flicks on your FreeNAS Plex Server

Quote of the Month
“The migration of massive amounts of terabytes wouldn’t have happened without the support of iXsystems.”

– Steven M. Rothstein, JFK Library Foundation, Executive Director

The post New FreeNAS Hardware Guide and Plans for 2020 – Issue #74 appeared first on TrueNAS - Welcome to the Open Storage Era.

Black Friday FreeNAS Mini Special Starts Today!

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TrueCommand Shifts to Prime Time

TrueCommand is an essential piece of IT infrastructure management for anyone deploying FreeNAS and TrueNAS systems and simplifies IT operations with its single pane of glass management of NAS fleets. Last week’s release of TrueCommand 1.1 introduces significant enhancements for production users and is now ready for prime time, scaling support for up to 500 NAS systems and new LDAP integration.

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FreeNAS and TrueNAS 11.3 Make Their Debuts

FreeNAS 11.3 represents another major advancement in the quality and functionality of the leading Open Storage platform, such as upgrades to ZFS Replication and SMB sharing. TrueNAS 11.3 is also inheriting an abundance of FreeNAS features from previous releases including the upgraded web UI as well as the ability to use and manage jails, plugins, and VMs.

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Breaking Down the FreeNAS Mini E!

The FreeNAS Mini E is a recent addition to the FreeNAS Mini series of storage appliances by iXsystems. The Mini E’s design makes it our most compact, cost-effective, and power-efficient NAS system in the FreeNAS Mini family.

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OpenZFS Developer Summit
The seventh annual OpenZFS Developer Summit took place on November 4th and 5th in San Francisco, bringing together familiar faces and new community participants alike. Unification, Refinement, and Ecosystem Tooling were all important parts of the discussion and focus of this year’s OpenZFS summit.

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iXsystems Serves You

For over twenty years, iXsystems has been dedicated to providing server solutions for thousands of customers around the world, helping design everything from small IT closets to some of the largest web services and data centers around the world. Our team of knowledgeable Solution Engineers is here to be your trusted advisors, guiding you through an easy and painless design process.

Server Solutions

AMD Rome Scalability is EPYC
After more than a year of success and traction with the first generation AMD EPYC 7000 CPUs, iXsystems is introducing AMD’s second generation EPYC 7002 processor family into its line of iX servers.

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eBook on Open Source Storage by iXsystems and ActualTech Media
This free eBook explains how proprietary and cloud storage falls short and why Open Source is a better development model for storage systems. Learn about the advantages of NVMe/NVDIMM storage for the modern enterprise and why businesses need a unified data platform.

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iXsystems Supports the Iozone Benchmarking Lab with a FreeNAS Certified System

This year, iXsystems donated a FreeNAS Certified storage array to the Iozone test lab in support of its important benchmarking research and development activities.

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Veeam Configuration Recommendations for TrueNAS
For users looking to deploy Veeam, or to update their storage repositories, TrueNAS is the ideal data target.

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October 30 Plugins Update
The latest plugins update addresses several security advisories and updates a few plugins such as Gitlab Runner, NextCloud, and Jenkins to their latest available versions.

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On-Demand FreeNAS Training
Online training modules from iXsystems are designed to quickly get you up to speed for getting the most out of your FreeNAS system. Each training module is 30 minutes long and cuts to the core information you need to become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS.

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Tech-Tip #70
After configuring SSH in FreeNAS, remember to start it in Services by clicking the sliding button in the SSH (Secure Shell) row. The sliding button moves to the right when the service is running.

Links of the Month

• The Compelling Economic Benefits of OpenZFS Storage via DCIG
• SNIA SDC 2019: SMB, NVMe, Persistent Memory, Performance, and More! via iXsystems
• FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE Now Available via FreeBSD-Announce
• GhostBSD 19.10 Now Available via GhostBSD.org
• Unix 50 via Nokia Bell Labs

Quote of the Month
“Being in the cloud backup business we needed enterprise storage, but given the competitive nature of our service, we needed enterprise capabilities without the associated costs. iXsystems definitely provided that balance and then some. We had a great experience in the setup and configuration and iXsystems was very helpful from start to finish. We have since expanded our storage systems several times due to business growth, which was very effortless. The systems have been very reliable and we are very satisfied with the value we received. iXsystems has provided great support and are always helpful. We would not hesitate to make future purchases as our needs grow.”

– Nathan G, Information Technology

The post FreeNAS Mini Black Friday Sale Starts Now! – Issue #73 appeared first on TrueNAS - Welcome to the Open Storage Era.

JFK Presidential Library Chooses iXsystems TrueNAS to Preserve Precious Digital Archives

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iXsystems Serves You

For over twenty years, iXsystems has been dedicated to providing server solutions for thousands of customers, helping design everything from small IT closets to some of the largest data centers in the world. See how iXsystems can equip you with the latest in server technology and save time and money in the process.

Server Solutions

All-Flash TrueNAS X10-HA and TrueNAS M40-HA Ready-to-Ship @ Unbeatable Prices!
Until December 31st, we have all-flash 20 TB TrueNAS X10 and 75 TB TrueNAS M40 systems pre-built and ready to ship! Order yours now and get enterprise-class storage and performance at the lowest TCO in the industry before the year ends.

20 TB ALL FLASH TRUENAS® X10-HA $16K | 75 TB ALL FLASH TRUENAS® M40-HA $45K

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Overview of Datasets and Snapshots in FreeNAS
In this tutorial, we are going to cover creating datasets and configuring snapshots after you’ve already set up pools on FreeNAS.

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The New FreeNAS Mini XL+ and E

The original FreeNAS Mini has now been joined by the Mini E, for power efficiency, and the Mini XL+, providing maximum performance for intensive workloads. The FreeNAS Mini XL+ and Mini E provide professional-grade Network Attached Storage for home and office and are powered by FreeNAS, the world’s most popular Open Source storage OS.

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eBook on Open Source Storage by iXsystems and ActualTech Media
This free eBook explains how proprietary and cloud storage falls short and why Open Source is a better development model for storage systems. Learn about the advantages of NVMe/NVDIMM storage for the modern enterprise and why businesses need a unified data platform.

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September 13 FreeNAS Plugins Update

This plugins update addresses a PHP security advisory, updates a few plugins to their latest available versions, and introduces the iconik plugin. More information about iconik, a getting started guide, and an offer for 300 free credits is available here.

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On-Demand FreeNAS Training
Online training modules from iXsystems are designed to quickly get you up to speed for getting the most out of your FreeNAS system. Each training module is 30 minutes long and cuts to the core information you need to become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS.

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Tech-Tip #69
Sometimes network users do not appear in the drop-down menu of a Permissions screen but the wbinfo commands display these users. This is typically due to the FreeNAS system taking longer than the default ten seconds to join Active Directory. Increase the value of AD timeout to 60 seconds to make sure all users are visible in FreeNAS.

Links of the Month

• Simulate SAN Storage with FreeNAS 11.2 via Virtualization Howto
• Setting up a new AM4 based Storage/FreeNAS server via /r/homelab
• Real-world Performance Advantages of NVDIMM and NVMe: A Case Study with OpenZFS via SDC2019

Quote of the Month
“We have worked with iXsystems over the years both for our internal systems as well as a supplier of custom-specified hardware for our on-prem SaaS deployments to our customer sites. This has made for an interesting sales channel, but something iXsystems has truly made easier. Working together, we have been able to ensure the right hardware and preloaded and tested software is delivered. iXsystems has even gone so far as working with us to deliver install guides with serial numbers and pictures of the actual hardware being shipped out. We default to iX not only due to cost but also TCO. All of our internal and on-prem deployments continue to run with little operational issues, outliving our planned failure rate. I attribute this to iX’s quality control and focus on long term part compatibility more than anything else. With remote deployments globally, this is a big benefit to us.”

– Craig Y, Solutions Architect

The post TrueNAS Preserves Scalable Archives for the JFK Library – Issue #72 appeared first on TrueNAS - Welcome to the Open Storage Era.

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Less than three weeks left to take advantage of special pricing on the 40TB X10-HA and 6PB M50 high-availability TrueNAS systems, pre-built and ready-to-ship! Order yours now and get enterprise-class storage and performance at the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) in the industry. More info in the links below.

40TB TRUENAS® X10-HA $9,900 | 6PB TRUENAS® M50-HA $450K

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Reduce Virtualization Costs with TrueNAS

Enterprise users need their IT infrastructure to be simple, reliable, and cost-effective. When they encounter performance issues, they need to rapidly deploy the hardware resources needed to address the issues, without hidden software or support costs. This is the core of the iXsystems approach to building virtualization infrastructure and private clouds.

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iconik Hybrid Cloud Media Management Now Native on FreeNAS
iXsystems and iconik are pleased to announce that FreeNAS can now natively act as a storage repository on the iconik smart media management platform. The new iconik storage gateway plugin is now available in the “Available Plugins” section. Once installed and setup with an iconik account, it allows for easy, always available access to shared files in FreeNAS from the cloud.

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All-Flash FreeNAS w/ 100TB Available at a Special Price for a Limited Time!


For a limited time, we have 100 TB All-Flash FreeNAS “Centurion” systems pre-built and ready-to-ship! Order yours now and get high-performance storage for media editing at the lowest TCO in the industry. Click below for price!

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August 27 FreeNAS Plugins Update
The latest plugins update addresses ClamAV, GitLab, and Jenkins security advisories and updates a few plugins to their latest available versions.

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How to Set Up NextCloud on FreeNAS 11.2
Thomas of Lawrence Systems shows us how to set up the NextCloud plugin on your FreeNAS system.

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eBook on Open Source Storage by iXsystems and ActualTech Media
This free eBook explains how proprietary and cloud storage falls short and why Open Source is a better development model for storage systems. Learn about the advantages of NVMe/NVDIMM storage for the modern enterprise and why businesses need a unified data platform.

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Configure SyncThing in a FreeNAS Jail

Thomas is back with another video, this time he shows us how to configure the self-hosted file synchronization tool, SyncThing, inside a FreeNAS Jail.

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Geekazine: iXsystems Showing the FreeNAS Mini XL Plus
Jeffrey Powers from Geekazine stopped by the iXsystems booth at VMworld to interview Exec VP Brett Davis and check out the new FreeNAS Mini XL+ in action!

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Tech-Tip #68
FreeNAS 11.2 added support for encrypting data synced to the cloud via Cloud Sync.

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Links of the Month

• Can The FreeNAS Mini XL+ Run Plex With 4K Video? via Lawrence Systems
• Install UniFi Controller on FreeNAS 11.2-U5 via CEO S3C
• My High Performance Low Cost Video Production Storage Solution via JayAreTV
• Initial installation and configuration of FreeNAS 11.x as VM within vSphere via Jorge de la Cruz
• How to backup and restore config file on FreeNAS via Pureinfotech

 

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Quote of the Month
“From the sales process through delivery and setup, the experience was perfect and what you would expect from a seasoned company like iXsystems. They simply outperform name brand OEMs at every level.”

– Steven M, Health, Wellness & Fitness

The post $10K for 40TB of Enterprise HA Storage | New iconik Plugin & More – Issue #71 appeared first on TrueNAS - Welcome to the Open Storage Era.

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ServeTheHome: FreeNAS Mini XL+ Review
Patrick Kennedy of ServeTheHome gives an in-depth review of the new FreeNAS Mini XL+ and does an unboxing of the system, goes over the components, and browses the FreeNAS GUI.

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All-Flash FreeNAS w/ 100TB Available at a Special Price for a Limited Time!


For a limited time, we have 100 TB All-Flash FreeNAS systems pre-built and ready-to-ship! Order yours now and get high-performance storage for media editing at the lowest TCO in the industry. Click below for price!

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Lawrence Systems: FreeNAS Mini XL+ Features & Review
Thomas of Lawrence Systems reviews the new FreeNAS Mini XL+ and discusses the 10GbE update as well as HTML5 iKVM for IPMI management.

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Make your mark with TrueNAS at VMworld!

The iXsystems Team will be at VMworld this year in San Francisco from August 25 – 29. Come stop by our booth (#966) and Make Your Mark with TrueNAS, the Open Storage Leader!

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TrueNAS 11.2-U5.1 is now available
iXsystems is pleased to announce the general availability of TrueNAS 11.2-U5.1. This point release provides some NFS fixes and updates the Asigra service to version 14.1.0.2.

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eBook on Open Source Storage by iXsystems and ActualTech Media
This free eBook explains how proprietary and cloud storage falls short and why Open Source is a better development model for storage systems. Learn about the advantages of NVMe/NVDIMM storage for the modern enterprise and why businesses need a unified data platform.

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Mount a TrueNAS or FreeNAS Share to a Docker Host

This blog will go over the steps necessary to create a share in FreeNAS and then use that as storage in a Docker container.

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July 24 Plugins Update
The latest plugins update addresses several MySQL security advisories and updates a few plugins such as BackupPC, Jenkins, and Syncthing to their latest available versions.

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On-Demand FreeNAS Training
Online training modules from iXsystems are designed to quickly get you up to speed for getting the most out of your FreeNAS system. Each training module is 30 minutes long and cuts to the core information you need to become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS.

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Tech-Tip #67
FreeNAS 11.2 now supports over 15 public and private cloud storage providers in System: Cloud Credentials, including Amazon, Backblaze, DropBox, Google, and Microsoft!

Links of the Month

• iXsystems, the last bootstrapped tech company in Silicon Valley via DZone
• TrueCommand Brings Unified Management and Predictive Analytics to ZFS Storage via DCIG
• Configure Your Own Jellyfish Fryer All-Flash NAS via ServeTheHome
• iXsystems FreeNAS Mini XL+ and Mini E Expand the Reach of Open Source Storage to Small Offices via DCIG
• iXsystems (FreeNAS) Swag Unboxing & Thank You Video via DASGeek

Quote of the Month
“iXsystems has some of the most responsive and knowledgeable service that I have experienced. Not only do they ask intelligent questions about the end use of the product, but they also work to make sure that you have the solution that fits your use case best.”

– Michael W, Raytheon Cyber Solutions

The post New FreeNAS Mini XL+ and Mini E now available! – Issue #70 appeared first on TrueNAS - Welcome to the Open Storage Era.

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Security Update for irssi and Bug Fix for Plex Plugins

The latest plugins update addresses a security advisory for the irssi plugin. It also fixes an issue in Plex Media and Plex Pass where some users received a white page after applying the previous plugins update.

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• Open ZFS vs. Btrfs | and other file systems & ZFS vs OpenZFS update
• FreeBSD For Makers via FreeBSD Journal
• Asigra FreeNAS plugin brings open source data protection via TechTarget
• iXsystems TrueCommand Released at V1.0 via ServeTheHome

– Brad Davis, Information Systems Architect at ClickBank

The post TrueNAS 11.2 and FreeNAS 11.2-U5 now available – Issue #69 appeared first on TrueNAS - Welcome to the Open Storage Era.

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Special Price TrueNAS X20-HA and TrueNAS M40-HA
For a limited time, we have 132TB TrueNAS X20 and 1.7PB M40 dual controller systems pre-built and ready-to-ship! Order yours now and get enterprise-class storage and performance at the lowest TCO in the industry.

132TB TRUENAS® X20-HA $23,700 | 1.7PB TRUENAS® M40-HA $170,000

Backup Evolved: Asigra Plugin for TrueNAS
Hundreds of thousands of TrueNAS systems are deployed around the world and can now be used as a turnkey backup solution with Asigra! Users can run the Asigra Plugin for TrueNAS to enable fully agentless backup of all the devices on their network.

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iXsystems TrueNAS brings Open Source Economics to VMware vSphere
iXsystems updates certifications for the TrueNAS M and X-Series platforms on vSphere and ESXi 6.5 and 6.7. Forthcoming update to the TrueNAS vCenter plugin also announced.

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FreeNAS ZFS Pools Overview
This tutorial will show you how to set up ZFS Pools in FreeNAS, along with best practices for keeping your data safe.

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iXsystems eBay Store
The iXsystems store is a great place to find overstock parts from iXsystems for your FreeNAS and server builds! iX Community members will get an additional 25% off all items.

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eBook on Open Source Storage by iXsystems and ActualTech Media
This free eBook explains how proprietary and cloud storage falls short and why Open Source is a better development model for storage systems. Learn about the advantages of NVMe/NVDIMM storage for the modern enterprise and why businesses need a unified data platform.

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Back Up Plugins and Jails on TrueNAS

Plugins and jails are stored in the iocage dataset, which is created automatically when the first plugin or jail is installed. Users can create snapshots of the entire dataset or sub-directories of individual plugins and jails. If an issue occurs, the user can roll back a jail to a previous state.

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June Plugins Update and new Plugins Available for Testing
We released another Plugins update to address some security vulnerabilities. We also have two new Plugins that are looking for testers.

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On-Demand FreeNAS Training
Online training modules from iXsystems are designed to quickly get you up to speed for getting the most out of your FreeNAS system. Each training module is 30 minutes long and cuts to the core information you need to become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS.

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Tech-Tip #65
Some disk vendors offer a DriveSavers data recovery add-on. This option could save you a fortune.

Links of the Month

• TrueNAS muscle l’interface de ses NAS avec TrueCommand via Lemonde Informatique
• Asigra Teams with iXsystems to Unveil Cloud Backup V14 for FreeNAS
• FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report – First Quarter 2019
• DIY Open Source NAS: How to Install FreeNAS via ITProToday

Quote of the Month
“We’ve been using TrueNAS for 12 months and our experience has been fantastic. We discovered the product while searching for reliable, high capacity storage at relatively low cost for our digital archival needs. Our pre-sales experience really made it clear that iXsystems understands the needs of enterprise customers and offers solutions and support that rival the biggest names in the storage industry. While we’ve fortunately had no issues with the solution we purchased, we did work with support to upgrade the system to an HA configuration several months after the initial purchase. We’re so pleased with the product we’ll actually be purchasing a second TrueNAS array this year for DR purposes. You’d be hard-pressed to find a better combination of capability, capacity, performance, reliability, and support for the cost.”

– Jerad A, IT at Health, Wellness & Fitness

The post 💽 Automatically backup data with Asigra on FreeNAS – Issue #68 appeared first on TrueNAS - Welcome to the Open Storage Era.

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Special Price Preconfigured TrueNAS X20-HA and TrueNAS M40-HA
For a limited time, we have 132TB TrueNAS X20 and 1.7PB M40 systems pre-built and ready-to-ship! Order yours now and get enterprise-class storage and performance at the lowest TCO in the industry.

132TB TRUENAS® X20-HA $23,700 | 1.7PB TRUENAS® M40-HA $170,000

iXsystems Takes the Plunge with Liquid Immersion Servers
iXsystems has partnered with the foremost company in liquid immersion solutions, Green Revolution Cooling, to design a line of liquid-immersion-ready servers. These servers are submerged into horizontal racks filled with an eco-friendly dielectric (non-conductive) fluid to more efficiently dissipate heat.

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FreeNAS 11.2-U4.1 is available
The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the availability of the fourth update to FreeNAS 11.2. This is a bug fix release that also includes several fixes for security vulnerabilities.

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Creating FreeNAS Installation Media
Need help setting up a bootable installation media for FreeNAS? This video walks you through how to create one on Windows or macOS, along with some best practice tips.

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Next Batch of Updated Plugins and How to Recover from Failed Update
The latest round of plugin updates is here! Before updating a plugin, review its Release Notes to determine if the update will impact your configuration.

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eBook on Open Source Storage by iXsystems and ActualTech Media
This free eBook explains how proprietary and cloud storage falls short and why Open Source is a better development model for storage systems. Learn about the advantages of NVMe/NVDIMM storage for the modern enterprise and why businesses need a unified data platform.

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Storage Performance Reference Guide: Interconnect Maximum Effective Data Rates

When designing and evaluating performance for network storage, there is an entire chain of interconnects to consider along the data path. This blog has tables that show data rates for the most common storage interfaces and interconnects.

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On-Demand FreeNAS Training
Online training modules from iXsystems are designed to quickly get you up to speed for getting the most out of your FreeNAS system. Each training module is 30 minutes long and cuts to the core information you need to become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS.

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Tech-Tip #64
FreeNAS email notifications are configured like an email client with username and password. Consider setting up a dedicated account for your FreeNAS systems!

Links of the Month

• FreeNAS Video-Editing Workflow Success via /r/freenas
• Snazzy Labs builds a 336TB FreeNAS Server
• FreeNAS 11.2 U4 Update Review via Lawrence Systems
• How to Remote Login to FreeNAS via SSH via Nhan Nguyen

Quote of the Month
“We’ve been purchasing iXsystems servers for a few years now and couldn’t be more satisfied with their hardware, customer service and overall experience dealing with different teams within iX. Whether we’re ordering 1 NAS or 100 servers they always deliver in all areas. Their customer service is second to none; rarely have we experienced hardware or logistical issues and any issue has been resolved professionally, following up every step along the way until satisfactory completion. I would highly recommend iXsystems for any server and storage needs.”

– Carlos H, IT Specialist

The post 🖥 TrueNAS & FreeNAS Simplified IT Operations with TrueCommand – Issue #67 appeared first on TrueNAS - Welcome to the Open Storage Era.

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TrueNAS Powers Media and Entertainment
TrueNAS enterprise storage appliances deliver a superb range of features and scalability for next-gen Media and Entertainment (M&E) workloads. Whether you’re a production house editing a major film, an audio studio working on music or special effects, or simply a smaller organization doing light file sharing, the TrueNAS family has a solution for you.

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Are your backups at risk to malware attacks?
Analyst DCIG reports on the growing threat of malware attacks on backup data and how the Asigra TrueNAS appliance prevents them.

Asigra TrueNAS White Paper | Asigra TrueNAS Solution

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FreeNAS 11.2-U3 is now available
The FreeNAS Team has released a third update to FreeNAS 11.2 featuring several bug fixes listed in the release notes. You can download the latest version here.

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S3 Object Storage on FreeNAS and TrueNAS
In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to set up S3 object storage through Minio on your FreeNAS or TrueNAS system.

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Lawrence Systems Review of FreeNAS 11.2-U3
Thomas Lawrence is back again with a review of the latest FreeNAS update. Thomas looks at some of the changes to pools, jails, and VM features.

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eBook on Open Source Storage by iXsystems and ActualTech Media
This free eBook explains how proprietary and cloud storage falls short and why Open Source is a better development model for storage systems. Learn about the advantages of NVMe/NVDIMM storage for the modern enterprise and why businesses need a unified data platform.

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Tech-Tip #63
A failure of the operating system device does not harm data on the pools. Install FreeNAS on a new operating system device, upload the configuration file, and you’ll be back up and running.

Links of the Month

• • How to Bulk Add Users on FreeNAS via G33k Space
  • FreeNAS Module / VMware PowerCLI via Jerome Bezettores
  • Install FreeNAS 11.2 on VMware ESXi via Nhan Nguyen

Quote of the Month
“iXsystems has experience in the entertainment industry which made it easier for them to understand our needs and tailor an appropriate storage solution. There was a high level of customer service and getting answers from the iXsystems team was very swift. Workflow performance between our previous storage solutions and our single TrueNAS is like night & day; we found that protecting our data became something we could do in four times each hour, instead of once each night. Implementing TrueNAS allowed me to sleep well at night knowing my data is safe.”

– Sang-Jin Bae, Chief Technology Officer at Hornet

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The New iXsystems Experience 
We’re moving the FreeNAS Forums to iXsystems.com to create the new iXsystems Community that will include content from all of our projects including FreeNAS, TrueOS, and TrueCommand.

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Sync Files to Dropbox with TrueNAS or FreeNAS
The Dropbox platform makes it easy to upload content and share links to files. It has free and business versions so organizations can tailor how they wish to implement it. Syncing FreeNAS or TrueNAS with Dropbox has many advantages. We show you how to perform the setup in this article.

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FreeNAS 11.2-U2.1 is Now Available for Download

FreeNAS 11.2-U2.1 is a hot-fix release to address an iocage and a Samba regression discovered in FreeNAS 11.2-U2. Users of 11.2 systems are encouraged to apply the hot-fix using the update instructions in the Guide. You can download it here.

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Asigra TrueNAS® Backup Appliance Named Backup/DR Hardware Product of the Year
iXsystems backup and recovery partner Asigra Inc. received the highest award, Gold, in TechTarget’s Storage Magazine for the jointly-developed Asigra TrueNAS Backup Appliance. This ranking establishes the appliance as the 2018 Backup/DR Hardware Product of the Year.

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FreeNAS 11.2 – Plex Media Server Plugin 
In this video, we talk about the Plex Plugin and demonstrate how to set it up using the FreeNAS 11.2 web interface.

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Latest February Plugin Update 
We released another Plugin update to address some security vulnerabilities and bug fixes.

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eBook on Open Source Storage by iXsystems and ActualTech Media
This free eBook explains how proprietary and cloud storage falls short and why Open Source is a better development model for storage systems. Learn about the advantages of NVMe/NVDIMM storage for the modern enterprise and why businesses need a unified data platform.

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Tech-Tip #62
While USB flash drives make convenient boot media, budget for mirrored SSDs or 2.5″ hard drives for the long haul.

Links of the Month

• 25 Years of FreeBSD via FOSDEM 19
• Create FreeBSD 11.2 USB Installer on Windows 10 via Nhan Nguyen
• Moving FreeNAS ZFS Pool from Physical Server to VM via vswitchzero
• iXsystems in Post Magazine – January/February 2019

Quote of the Month
“We use Veeam for straight backups and recovery. The two systems work great together. After implementing Veeam and my TrueNAS, I was getting backups within 30 minutes. The setup was super easy and the TrueNAS is much more stable than my old backup solution.”

– Jeff Carroll, IT Manager, Sudenga Industries

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Asigra TrueNAS Backup Appliance Gold Winner in Storage Magazine
 
Asigra TrueNAS was the Gold winner in Storage magazine and SearchStorage’s 2018 Products of the Year in the category of Backup and Disaster Recovery Hardware.

Read More Here | Asigra TrueNAS Solution

iXsystems Charges into 2019 With Sustained 50% Growth in TrueNAS and FreeNAS Revenues
iXsystems started 2019 strongly following three consecutive years with over 50% year-over-year revenue growth in its TrueNAS product line. This achievement and momentum reflects the rapid adoption of the cutting-edge TrueNAS M-Series storage appliance.

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February Plugin Updates and New Plugins for Testing

The FreeNAS Team released another Plugins update to address some security vulnerabilities. Several new Plugins are looking for testers, such as Bitcoin Core full node, Channels DVR, and Gitlab Runner.

Learn more here

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FreeNAS 11.1-U7 is now available
The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the availability of the latest update to FreeNAS 11.1. This bug fix release addresses NFS, bhyve, and Samba security vulnerabilities. Download it here.

Learn more here

eBook on Open Source Storage by iXsystems and ActualTech Media
This free eBook explains how proprietary and cloud storage falls short and why Open Source is a better development model for storage systems. Learn about the advantages of NVMe/NVDIMM storage for the modern enterprise and why businesses need a unified data platform.

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Tech-Tip #61
Note your drive serial numbers and their bays as you install them to eliminate any questions of which disk is which should you need to replace one.

Links of the Month

• Enjoy Netflix? You Should Thank FreeBSD via It’s FOSS
• How to Back up Configuration in FreeNAS 11.2 via Nhan Nguyen
• FreeNAS 11.1-U7 Update: SAMBA Security Fixes via Lawrence Systems
• Project Trident 18.12-RELEASE is now available

Quote of the Month
“When I had an issue or a question on TrueNAS I was put on the phone with a person very experienced with TrueNAS to answer my oddball and left field questions about highly unlikely use cases for TrueNAS. This was before I had actually bought anything from iXsystems and was still shopping around. It’s hard to find that kind of support up front.”

– Daniel Weiss, LAN Support, Standard Calibrations Inc.

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FreeNAS 11.2 Unveiled with a New and Improved User Interface

The latest FreeNAS release features a sleek new look and feel to enhance the user experience, updated plugins system, virtual machine stability improvements, and SED drive support. You can download it here.

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Asigra TrueNAS Solution 
With the new Asigra TrueNAS solution, your backup system can be deployed as a simple, integrated service on TrueNAS! Now you can host enterprise data backup, serve SMB shares, NFS exports, iSCSI mounts, S3 shares, and much more, all from the same TrueNAS system!

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FreeNAS 11.2 – What’s New?
Joshua Smith and Kris Moore sit down to discuss the latest changes in version 11.2 and demonstrate the new user interface, in the iX blue theme.

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How to Install a FreeNAS VM on VirtualBox
This tutorial by user Rajkumar will show you how to set up FreeNAS in a virtual environment with VirtualBox.

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ISCSI vs NFS Performance Comparison Using FreeNAS and XCP-NG Xenserver
Thomas of Lawrence Technology Services does an iSCSI and NFS performance comparison test using FreeNAS and XCP-NG.

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eBook on Open Source Storage by iXsystems and ActualTech Media
This free eBook explains how proprietary and cloud storage falls short and why Open Source is a better development model for storage systems. Learn about the advantages of NVMe/NVDIMM storage for the modern enterprise and why businesses need a unified data platform.

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The True Story of FreeNAS 
Olivier Cochard-Labbé, the original founder of FreeNAS, shares with us a presentation outlining the history and beginnings of what would become the world’s most popular storage operating system.

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On-Demand FreeNAS Training

Online training modules from iXsystems are designed to quickly get you up to speed for getting the most out of your FreeNAS system. Each training module is 30 minutes long and cuts to the core information you need to become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS.

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Tech-Tip #59
Confident at the command line? You can enable SSH access under Services but use caution when enabling root access.

Links of the Month

• NVMe: Four Key Trends via DCIG
• How To Setup NFS With FreeNAS and XenServer via Lawrence Systems
• Server “Room” Rebuild Work – vlog via Craft Computing
• FreeBSD 12.0-RC3 is available for download

Quote of the Month
“We were having trouble with our heavy disk I/O and low latency storage and needed something that could do the job required. TrueNAS has handled the task flawlessly. What we were looking for is something that had solid state performance. We looked at several vendors, but TrueNAS came with a lower acquisition cost, more storage, and better performance.”

– Preston Fisher, Systems Administrator, Tennessee County School System

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Silicon Valley Veteran Morgan Littlewood Joins iXsystems as Senior Vice President, Product Management and Business Development
Littlewood will oversee the iXsystems TrueNAS and FreeNAS storage product lines while negotiating the relationships that will help grow iXsystems’ leadership position in Open Source IT infrastructure.

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Backup and Recovery with FreeNAS, bhyve, and Veeam
This step-by-step guide from a FreeNAS user demonstrates how to configure a backup and recovery solution using bhyve and Veeam Backup on FreeNAS 11.1-U6.

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How to Configure Plex Media Server Plugin
Thomas from Lawrence Systems walks us through configuring the Plex Media Server plugin on FreeNAS 11.2-BETA3.

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TrueNAS Privacy and Security Compliance Features
This whitepaper provides an overview of the data-at-rest and data-in-flight encryption features in TrueNAS that help your business stay compliant.

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Six Metrics for Measuring ZFS Pool Performance
The layout of a ZFS storage pool has a significant impact on system performance under various workloads. Learn about these metrics to help you optimize your ZFS pool performance.

 Part 1
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eBook on Open Source Storage by iXsystems and ActualTech Media
This free eBook explains how proprietary and cloud storage falls short and why Open Source is a better development model for storage systems. Learn about the advantages of NVMe/NVDIMM storage for the modern enterprise and why businesses need a unified data platform.

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MeetBSD 2018
MeetBSD 2018 will be held at Intel’s campus in Santa Clara on October 19 and 20. For those looking to attend, registration is still open! Check out our speakers for this year’s conference here. Enter our drawing for a free Western Digital MyCloud Home by registering between now and October 18.

On-Demand FreeNAS Training

Online training modules from iXsystems are designed to quickly get you up to speed for getting the most out of your FreeNAS system. Each training module is 30 minutes long and cuts to the core information you need to become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS.

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Tech-Tip #58
The vast majority of VMware users connect to FreeNAS with iSCSI while most XenServer users use NFS.

Links of the Month

• What is ZFS? Why Are People Crazy About it? via Its FOSS
• BSD Now Episode 265: Software Disenchantment
• FreeBSD Foundation Update 9/18
• FreeNAS 11.2-BETA3 Review via Lawrence Systems

Quote of the Month
“We were having trouble with our heavy disk I/O and low latency storage and needed something that could do the job required. TrueNAS has handled the task flawlessly. What we were looking for is something that had solid state performance.  We looked at several vendors, but TrueNAS came with a lower acquisition cost, more storage, and better performance.”

– Preston Fisher, Systems Administrator, Tennessee County School System

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FreeNAS 11.2-BETA3 is now available for download!
FreeNAS 11.2 BETA3 is available for testing! Be sure to review the Release Notes before installing or upgrading to this version. You can download it.  You can download it here.

Release Notes

Asigra TrueNAS Backup Appliance Launched at VMworld
iXsystems has partnered with Asigra to deliver the Asigra TrueNAS Backup Appliance, featuring enterprise-ready storage with ransomware detection. The new solution runs Asigra Cloud Backup V14 software on iXsystems‘ TrueNAS hybrid storage systems, offering high availability, superior scalability, and data integrity.

Learn more here

FreeNAS 11.1-U6 is available!
The latest update for FreeNAS 11.1 is available. FreeNAS 11.1-U6 addresses several FreeBSD Security Advisories and Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) fixes. You can download it here.

Learn more here

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Set Up FreeNAS Cloud Storage on Backblaze B2
Roderick Bauer walks us through configuring FreeNAS Cloud Sync for cloud storage on a Backblaze B2 account.

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Paul’s Hardware: Riptide 32TB FreeNAS Setup
Paul demonstrates to viewers his fantastic FreeNAS setup featuring a whopping 32TB storage, 32GB RAM, and Alphacool water cooling.

 Watch here now

eBook on Open Source Storage by iXsystems and ActualTech Media
This free eBook explains how proprietary and cloud storage falls short and why Open Source is a better development model for storage systems. Learn about the advantages of NVMe/NVDIMM storage for the modern enterprise and why businesses need a unified data platform.

Download it here

On-Demand FreeNAS Training

Online training modules from iXsystems are designed to quickly get you up to speed for getting the most out of your FreeNAS system. Each training module is 30 minutes long and cuts to the core information you need to become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS.

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Tech-Tip #57
FreeNAS lets you schedule when to assign a higher resilver priority. Increase the priority after business hours and during scheduled downtime to finish the resilver faster.

Links of the Month

• VMworld 2018: Asigra TrueNAS via iXsystems
• Building a Better Backup Appliance via StorageSwiss
• BSD Now Episode 261: FreeBSDcon Flashback
• FreeNAS 11.1 U6 Update & Changelog via Lawrence Systems

Quote of the Month
“One of the challenges facing the data center is the multiplicity of storage systems it needs to manage. Even small data centers have two or three systems and enterprises are now counting more than a dozen systems. Solutions like iXsystems’ TrueNAS provide those organizations with a way to consolidate the number of storage systems they manage. The integration of Asigra as a service into the NAS makes the consolidation message even stronger.”

– George Crump, StorageSwiss Founder 

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FreeNAS 11.2-BETA2 is available!

The second BETA of FreeNAS 11.2 is here with a new graphical user interface and countless improvements based on community feedback. You can download it here.

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How to Configure an APC UPS for FreeNAS

nixCraft demonstrates how to configure an APC UPS on FreeNAS to protect against a power failure.

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Visit iXsystems at VMworld at Booth #2224

We’re counting down to VMworld 2018 (August 26-30) and hope to see you there! The iXsystems team will be out in full force showcasing how the TrueNAS M-Series and X-Series storage systems combined with iXsystems servers are a perfect match for your VMware infrastructure.

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FreeNAS 11.2-BETA Review

Thomas of Lawrence Systems reviews iocage, iSCSI, Plugins, and Backblaze B2 on FreeNAS 11.2-BETA.

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FreeNAS Performance Testing by Lawrence Systems

Thomas Lawrence conducts performance tests on FreeNAS using an Intel i5-4570 equipped server with 36TB via iSCSI.
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eBook on Open Source Storage by iXsystems and ActualTech Media

This free eBook explains how proprietary and cloud storage falls short and why Open Source is a better development model for storage systems. Learn about the advantages of NVMe/NVDIMM storage for the modern enterprise and why businesses need a unified data platform.

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MeetBSD 2018 Registration

MeetBSD 2018 will be hosted at Intel’s campus in Santa Clara on October 19-20. We invite speakers from every corner of the BSD community to submit a topic about BSD success stories, new development, and innovative strategies. For those looking to attend, registration is open! Take advantage of the early bird registration price of $100 through August 31st.

Registration

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On-Demand FreeNAS Training

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Tech-Tip #56

Suspect that a disk or controller has disappeared? Type ‘sysctl kern.disks’ in the Shell to list all recognized disk device names. Check the hardware if any disks are missing.

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Links of the Month

• • BSD Now Episode 2^8: Because Computers

• OSCON 2018 Recap via iXsystems

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Quote of the Month

“We have established a multi-tier data protection strategy that works well for us. VMware VMs running on top of VSAN handle the first level of failures, while replica VMs that are stored on the TrueNAS is the second tier of protection in case something would happen to VSAN. In addition, we perform full VM backup with NAKIVO Backup & Replication running on top of the TrueNAS appliances and FreeNAS servers. Lastly, we use backup copy jobs to send backups offsite.” – Doug C., Senior Network Engineer, NAKIVO

The post FreeNAS 11.2-BETA2, Configure Power Management, iocage Review, and more, Issue #60 appeared first on TrueNAS - Welcome to the Open Storage Era.

This free eBook explains how proprietary and cloud storage falls short and why Open Source is a better development model for storage systems. Learn about the advantages of NVMe/NVDIMM storage for the modern enterprise and why businesses need a unified data platform.

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FreeNAS 11.1-U5 is now available!

FreeNAS 11.1-U5 includes various bug fixes and adds preliminary support for Self-Encrypting Drives. You can download it here.

How to Backup and Restore Configuration File

If you are switching over to new hardware or need to reinstall FreeNAS, nixCraft demonstrates how to back up and restore the configuration database using the GUI.

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FreeNAS Jails, Plugins, and Storage Permissions Explained

Lawrence Systems explains FreeBSD jails, the plugin system, and storage permissions for FreeNAS in this in-depth video tutorial.

>Watch Video Here

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OpenZFS Feature Flags

User Ericloewe describes the OpenZFS feature flags available in FreeNAS and TrueNAS.
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Visualizing ZFS Performance

Michael Dexter, iXsystems’ Senior Analyst, explains how to better understand ZFS performance challenges and opportunities using renowned performance engineer Brendan Gregg’s timescale.

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On-Demand FreeNAS Training

Online training modules from iXsystems are designed to quickly get you up to speed for getting the most out of your FreeNAS system. Each training module is 30 minutes long and cuts to the core information you need to become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS.

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Tech Tip #54

Trying to replace a drive with the same capacity drive from another manufacturer that is slightly smaller? Temporarily reduce the swap size in System → Advanced to 1 or 0 GiB and try the drive replacement again. Once it is successful, remember to change the setting back to the default of 2.

Links of the Month

• Anyone have experience with TrueNAS? via /r/FreeNAS
• TrueNAS M-Series Basic Setup & Deployment Guide BSD Magazine June 2018 Issue
• FreeBSD 11.2 RC-3 is now available

Quote of the Month

“As a user of FreeNAS, I was already aware of how well FreeNAS worked for SoHo storage. When I saw the line of supported TrueNAS solutions iXsystems was putting out there, I knew we had to look further into it. Knowing that our data is correct and protected from data corruption is very important to us, which makes TrueNAS with OpenZFS a tremendous step up from other solutions.” – Ari Orlinsky, Director of Information Systems, iostudio

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Michael Dexter, iXsystems Senior Analyst, explains how to better understand ZFS performance challenges and opportunities using renowned performance engineer Brendan Gregg’s timescale.

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#StorageEnvy: TrueNAS M-Series

The M-Series supports advanced flash technology, including NVDIMM and NVMe, and uses the latest Intel Xeon Scalable Family Processors. Its performance, density, all-inclusive licensing for snapshots, replication, compression, encryption, and optional High Availability reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO).

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iXsystems at BSDCan 2018

Stop by our table at BSDCan this June 8-9 in Ottawa, Canada to say hi! Representatives from the FreeNAS and iXsystems teams will be there to present talks and give away goodies. Registration and schedule are also available at the link below.

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LinuxFest NorthWest 2018

The 19th annual LinuxFest Northwest event took place on the last weekend of April in Bellingham, Washington, and it was a blast as always. A group of us organized a table representing FreeBSD, the FreeBSD Foundation, FreeNAS, and TrueOS. The feedback was extremely positive and iXsystemslooks forward to the 20th annual event next year!

LNFW 2018 Recap

Boise Technology Show 2018

Every year, Fisher’s Technology, our Idaho Channel Partner, holds a one-day technology show and this year iXsystems was excited to be a Platinum Sponsor and the exclusive storage exhibitor.

>Boise Tech 2018 Recap

Stand Out with iX University’s FreeNAS Training

Online training modules from iXsystems are designed to quickly get you up to speed to get the most out of your FreeNAS system. Each training module is 30 minutes long and cuts to the core information you need to become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS. 

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Customer Quote of the Month

“Our use of HPC for genomics and imaging comes with a unique set of requirements that does not fit into standard clouds, so we were very excited to hear about the new TrueNAS M-Series, and iXsystems‘ strategy to focus on private clouds. We plan to add the TrueNAS M-Series to our HPC infrastructure to supplement prior-generation models of TrueNAS. We expect that adding the TrueNAS M-Series will significantly improve our ability to analyze our HPC genomic data and deliver critical insights to the life sciences community.” – Scott Pegg, CIO of Gladstone Institutes, UCSF

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iXsystems announced the TrueNAS M40 and M50 as the newest high-performance models in its hybrid, unified storage product line. The TrueNAS M-Series harnesses NVMe and NVDIMM to bring all-flash array performance to the award-winning TrueNAS hybrid arrays.

Learn more about the TrueNAS M-Series

TrueNAS M-Series: What’s New

The M-Series supports advanced flash technology, including NVDIMM and NVMe, and uses the latest Intel Xeon Scalable Processor Family. Its performance, density, all-inclusive licensing for snapshots, replication, compression, and encryption, and optional High Availability reduce storage total cost of ownership (TCO).

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iXsystems TrueNAS M-Series Blows Away Veeam Backup Certification Tests

iXsystems has officially passed the Veeam Ready Certification for the TrueNAS M-Series product line of enterprise storage systems. The certification includes the TrueNAS M40 and M50 running TrueNAS 11.x or higher, passing test requirements for Full/Incremental Backup, Full Restore, and Instant VM Recovery on Veeam Backup Software.

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TrueNAS Update Delivers OpenZFS Improvements and Cloud Sync Additions 

TrueNAS 11.1 introduces OpenZFS improvements and expanded integration with cloud services. In addition to Amazon S3, TrueNAS cloud service integration supports Microsoft Azure, Backblaze B2 Cloud, and Google Cloud Platform, making it easier than ever to use TrueNAS for all of your cloud storage needs.

Learn More about TrueNAS 11.1

NAB 2018

iXsystems attended the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show in Las Vegas in an effort to fully understand NAB, the M&E market, and its players.

David Valencia’s Recap
Michael Dexter’s Recap

CodeStock Academy 2018

CodeStock 2018 just wrapped up and we had a great time getting to meet all of the conference attendees! iXsystems was there to sponsor CodeStock Academy with our FreeNAS Mini giveaway, and as a presenting sponsor for CodeStock.

CodeStock 2018 Recap

Stand Out with iX University’s FreeNAS Training

Online training modules from iXsystems are designed to quickly get you up to speed to get the most out of your FreeNAS system. Each training module is 30 minutes long and cuts to the core of the information you need to become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS.

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Customer Quote of the Month

“The integration of TrueNAS with Backblaze B2 Cloud Services is ideal for our needs. The use of cloud sync gives us an easy to use and cost effective off-site disaster recovery solution.”

– Aaron Echols, Lead IT Administrator, Benjamin Charter School

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At iXsystems, we have experience with every detail of solution implementation, including planning, custom application and driver development, hardware qualification, hardware integration, testing, and deployment. Turn to iXsystems and let us help you with all of your storage and server needs.

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Hello FreeNAS Users!
After many months of work, we’re excited to finally unveil the next generation of TrueNAS systems, which uses NVMe and NVDIMM flash for caching. Also in this issue, find out the results of our FreeNAS use survey from February and see how Lawrence Systems set up their backup and disaster recovery processes. Lastly, we have an article from the iXsystems CEO about how the company thrives using an open source business model.
Sincerely,
The FreeNAS Team

The Next Generation of TrueNAS
We are excited to announce the release of the new TrueNAS M Series! With twice the capacity and almost 45% more storage density than its predecessor, the TrueNAS M Series brings groundbreaking performance to enterprise storage.
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FreeNAS User Survey Results
In the February 2018 FreeNAS newsletter, we surveyed over 1,500 FreeNAS followers to see how people use FreeNAS around the world and what interests them. Here are the results!
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Lawrence Systems Server Backup & Disaster Recovery
Check out this video from Lawrence Systems to see how they use FreeNAS and XenServer to backup all of their virtual machines as well as their process for recovering data if the system ever fails.
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Leadership Is The Secret To An Open Source Business Model
Open Source is in our blood but how do you run a business when you give away your product for free? In this Forbes article iXsystems CEO, Mike Lauth, explains why the company implements an Open Source business model and how it’s integral to the company’s success.
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On-Demand FreeNAS Training
iX University provides a series of free online training modules presented by Senior Analyst and FreeNAS expert Michael Dexter. These modules are designed to quickly get you up to speed on the key concepts and techniques that will help you become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS.
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TechTip #52
Need to backup your FreeNAS data? No problem! Your FreeNAS system can be configured to support these awesome backup services: OpenZFS Remote Replication, rsync, Microsoft Windows Backup, Apple Time Machine, and TrueOS Life Preserver.

Links of the Month

• SCaLE 16x: Open is Still the Answer via iXsystems
• Episode 240: TCP Blackbox Recording via The BSD Now
• TrueNAS 11.1 – What’s New via iXsystems

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iXsystems officially passed the Veeam Backup and Replication v9.5 for VMware certification tests for the TrueNAS X-Series of enterprise storage systems. This certification includes the TrueNAS X10 and X20 models running TrueNAS version 11.x.

> Learn More about TrueNAS and Veeam Ready

Looking at Lumina Desktop 2.0

Joshua Smith sat down with Lead Developer Ken Moore of the TrueOS Project to get answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about Lumina Desktop from the Open Source community.

> Learn More about Lumina

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iXsystems Sponsors CodeStock and CodeStock Academy

iXsystems is excited to sponsor and attend the annual CodeStock conference taking place on April 20th and 21st, 2018, at the Knoxville Convention Center in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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SCaLE 16x: Open is Still the Answer

Several iXsystems team members attended the 16th annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) conference at the Pasadena Convention Center to build up interest in FreeBSD, FreeNAS, TrueNAS, and Open Source enterprise storage technologies.

>SCaLE 16x Recap

Stand Out with iX University’s FreeNAS Training

Online training modules from iXsystems are designed to quickly get you up to speed to get the most out of your FreeNAS system. Each training module is 30 minutes long and cuts to the core of the information you need to become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS.

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Customer Quote of the Month

“What impresses me most about iX is their deep technical knowledge, their commitment to support and quality, and their willingness to solve any reasonable problem you present them with, be it a rush order, a unique configuration, a fully integrated solution involving non-standard vendors, or any type of additional services (OS install, custom burn-in cycle, etc). While their pricing is not rock bottom, it is quite competitive, and the additional support, quality, and reduced headaches is well worth the small premium over bottom of the barrel solutions.”

– Gilbert G., Head of Engineering, CareerLark

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At iXsystems, we have experience with every detail of solution implementation, including planning, custom application and driver development, hardware qualification, hardware integration, testing, and deployment. Turn to iXsystems and let us help you with all of your storage and server needs.

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Hello FreeNAS Users!
Spring has arrived along with new and interesting projects! From Pi-Hole to Let’s Encrypt, we love seeing all the awesome things you’re doing with FreeNAS. Keep them coming!
Sincerely,
The FreeNAS Team

FreeNAS at SCaLE 16x
FreeNAS development sponsor iXsystems will once again have two booths in the Expo area of the Southern California Linux Expo ( SCALE) to be held in Pasadena, CA on March 8-11. Drop by the FreeBSD booth to learn more about FreeNAS and its parent operating system, FreeBSD. At the iXsystems booth, learn what we’ve got planned for the upcoming year and talk to the team for a chance to win an Apple HomePod.
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FreeNAS Release Notes Archive
Comparing the changes between each FreeNAS update has never been easier. Starting with FreeNAS 11.1, release notes are archived in a single location for your convenience.
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Let’s Encrypt on FreeNAS 11.1
User Danb35 from the FreeNAS forums wrote a useful guide for setting up Let’s Encrypt on FreeNAS 11.1. This tutorial shows how to use HTTPS for the Web UI. It also shows how to automate the process so it only has to be set up once.
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Whole Home Ad Blocking with Pi-Hole on FreeNAS VM
Check out this video from Craft Computing demonstrating how to install Pi-Hole on a FreeNAS VM to block ads on all devices under a home network.
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On-Demand FreeNAS Training
iX University provides a series of free online training modules presented by Senior Analyst and FreeNAS expert Michael Dexter. These modules are designed to quickly get you up to speed on the key concepts and techniques that will help you become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS.
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TechTip #51
Cloud Sync was introduced in FreeNAS 11.1. Link your Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or Backblaze B2 account to securely synchronize your files and directories to the cloud.

Links of the Month

• Samsung Unveils World’s Largest SSD with a Whopping 30TB of Storage via The Verge
• Install OpenVPN in FreeNAS 11.1 Jail via Kulmosen

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Hello FreeNAS Users!
We’re curious— how do you use FreeNAS? This month, we’re asking you to help us understand our community better by filling out a quick survey. We’ll even reward you for your time! Read on for more details. Also in this edition of the newsletter, we’ll take a look at the difference between ZFS & OpenZFS and how TrueNAS can be used to upgrade your media production environment.
Sincerely,
The FreeNAS Team

Take our Survey to Win a Free Starbucks Coffee
Help us understand how you use FreeNAS and get a cup of coffee on us! The first 250 people who fill out this quick survey will get a $5 Starbucks gift card and EVERYONE who fills out the survey by March 2nd will be entered into a raffle drawing for a diskless FreeNAS Mini ($1,000 value). This survey will help us tailor content for future newsletters, blogs, videos, and other documents.
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ZFS vs OpenZFS
You’ve probably heard us say a mix of “ZFS” and “OpenZFS” almost at random when talking about the amazing file system at the heart of FreeNAS. Senior Analyst Michael Dexter explains the history of ZFS and OpenZFS and how these two projects differ.
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TrueNAS Makes the Cut for Avid Editing
IndieStor’s MIMIQ is an application that allows you to use Avid bin-locking with TrueNAS. The bin-locking feature prevents an active Avid media project from being overwritten, allowing multiple users on a network to make changes and work on the same project. Learn how you can free yourself from Avid proprietary hardware and speed up your media & entertainment editing with TrueNAS.
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On-Demand FreeNAS Training
iX University provides a series of free online training modules presented by Senior Analyst and FreeNAS expert Michael Dexter. These modules are designed to quickly get you up to speed on the key concepts and techniques that will help you become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS.
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TechTip #50
Need to switch from the new UI to the old one? No problem! Go to the New UI and click the “Gear” icon in the upper-right corner of the screen. Click the “Legacy UI” option and FreeNAS will automatically log out of the New UI and navigate to the login screen for the Old UI. Alternatively, add /legacy to the end of the FreeNAS system’s IP address in your browser’s address bar. You can return to the new GUI when you log on again.

Links of the Month

• ZFS is the Answer, by Allan Jude. Provided by the 2018 Free & Open Source Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM) Youtube channel

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Hello FreeNAS Users!
Happy new year! In this edition of the newsletter, we’re bringing you some tutorials and guides to help you stay on top of your security.
Sincerely,
The FreeNAS Team

StorageCrypter Ransomware: Security Threat or Clickbait?
There’s a new ransomware targeting NAS systems but the facts surrounding it has been confusing. Get the facts and learn why you don’t need to worry about your FreeNAS or TrueNAS system.
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How to Install FreeNAS 11.1 on VMs
Linux Video Tutorials created video guides for installing and configuring FreeNAS 11.1 on both VMware and Virtualbox. Take a look if you’re interested in using FreeNAS in a virtual environment.

• How to Install FreeNAS 11.1 on VMware Workstation
• How to Install FreeNAS 11.1 on Oracle Virtualbox

FreeNAS 11.1 ZFS Volume Encryption vs Non-Encrypted Benchmark
Check out this cool video from Lawrence Systems as he compares performance numbers between encrypted and non-encrypted volumes.
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Using FreeNAS for NSX FTP Backups
If you’re using FreeNAS in a VMware environment, be sure to read this step-by-step guide to set up FTP backups for NSX.
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On-Demand FreeNAS Training
iX University provides a series of online training modules presented by FreeNAS expert Michael Dexter that are designed to quickly get you up to speed on the key concepts and techniques that will help you become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS.
Watch Now>>

TechTip #49
Security Pro Tip! FreeNAS 11.1 includes the ability to host your own VMs and jails. While these are very powerful tools, precautions should always be taken. Ensure that your VMs and jails are always kept up to date with the latest security patches. These should be treated as full machines on your network and the same security “Best practices” still apply. This will ensure not only the security of your FreeNAS system but your local network as a whole as well.

Links of the Month

• Best of 2017 via iXsystems
• FreeBSD Response to Meltdown and Spectre via FreeBSD

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Hello FreeNAS Users!
This month’s newsletter features several tutorials, a deep dive into TrueNAS, an update from the OpenZFS summit, and the start of the #FreeNASbuildoff contest where you’ll have a chance to win a FreeNAS Mini.
Sincerely,
The FreeNAS Team

TrueNAS X-Series Hardware & TrueNAS Software Deep Dive
In his latest video, Tom of Lawrence Technology Services takes an in-depth look at the TrueNAS X10 and gives his review.
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Lawrence Systems Tutorials – 10GbE Networking Setup/Configure XenServer
Tom Lawrence also took the time to make a couple of tutorials for FreeNAS. Take a look to learn how to set up configure Citrix XenServer with FreeNAS and iSCSI.

OpenZFS Developer Summit 2017 Report
Check out our recap of the OpenZFS DevSummit to learn what’s ahead for the file system.
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#FreeNASbuildoff Contest Begins
The #FreeNASbuildOFF Contest begins now! Make sure to follow the directions in each phase to be eligible for your chance to win a brand new FreeNAS Mini.
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Geekazine Interview with Brett Davis
iXsystems’ EVP Brett Davis spoke with Geekazine at VMworld 2017 about the flexibility and capabilities of FreeNAS and TrueNAS.
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On-Demand FreeNAS Training
iX University provides a series of online training modules presented by FreeNAS expert Michael Dexter that are designed to quickly get you up to speed on the key concepts and techniques that will help you become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS.
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TechTip #46
Back up your configuration database every time you make a configuration change! You’ll thank yourself.

Links of the Month

• Testing the Gigabyte MA10-ST0 with pfSense 2.4-Release and FreeNAS 11.0-U4 via ServeTheHome
• How to Replace a Failing Drive via The OptionKey

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FreeNAS Users,
Fall is in full swing and we have a couple of tutorials to share this month. Keep reading to learn how to replace a failing drive, upgrade the network card in your FreeNAS Mini, and more.
Cheers,
The FreeNAS Team

FreeNAS Mini & XL-Network Card Upgrade
Do you own a FreeNAS Mini or Mini XL? We’ll show you how to upgrade the network card on your system with our newest tutorial video. Watch now 

How to Replace a Failing Drive in FreeNAS
At some point, a drive in your system will probably fail on you. When that happens, this guide demonstrating how to replace the drive will come in handy. Check it out! Read More

On-Demand FreeNAS Training
iX University provides a series of online training modules presented by FreeNAS expert Michael Dexter that are designed to quickly get you up to speed on the key concepts and techniques that will help you become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS. Watch now

Why We Still Love ZFS (Part II) – Free Webinar
We invite you to join Michael W. Lucas and Allan Jude, the co-authors of FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS and Advanced ZFS, for a free webinar about ZFS. Learn about the benefits of ZFS and how it can help keep your data safe. Watch webinar

Live Events

• October 24-25, 2017 – OpenZFS Developer Summit in San Francisco, CA
• October 29-November 3, 2017 – LISA 2017 in San Francisco, CA

TechTip #46
ZFS datasets are also called “file systems” for good reason: Moving data between them at the command line does not instantly move the data, but rather copies it to the destination and then deletes it from the source. NFS users may also find that they have to share datasets individually because any two datasets can have conflicting inode numbers.

Join the Team
iXsystems, the company that sponsors FreeNAS, is looking for talented people to join our team. Interested? The full list of available positions can be found on our website.

Links of the Month

• Introduction to iXsystems: Not just #FreeNAS anymore via Truth in IT
• #ServerEnvy: Drives for Days via iXsystems

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Hello FreeNAS Users!
In the spirit of back to school season, we’re excited to announce the release of the full 100 and 200-level FreeNAS training modules. We listened to your feedback and launched a series of training videos to help you continue your FreeNAS education. Be sure to also keep an eye out for some of the news and guides we’ve rounded up in this issue of the newsletter.
Cheers,
The FreeNAS Team

FreeNAS Training Modules Now Available
All of the classes for the beginner and intermediate FreeNAS Training modules are now available for registration and viewing. Presented by FreeNAS expert, Michael Dexter, these self-contained videos are designed to give you all the information you need to become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS at your own pace. Register now >>

A Practical Guide to Containers on FreeNAS
Want to use Docker on FreeNAS 11? Check out this handy tutorial from Andrew Cherkashin for step-by-step instructions on setting up Docker containers on your FreeNAS system. Read more

FreeNAS at VMworld 2017
The team behind FreeNAS was out in full force at this year’s VMworld 2017. We spoke with thousands of IT professionals about FreeNAS and passed out free storage and schwag to lucky winners of our slot machine. Watch now >>

Why We Still Love ZFS (Part II) – Free Webinar
We invite you to join Michael W. Lucas and Allan Jude, the co-authors of FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS and Advanced ZFS, for a free webinar about ZFS. Learn about the benefits of ZFS and how it can help keep your data safe. Read more

Live Events

• September 21-24, 2017 – EuroBSDcon in Paris, France
• September 29-30, 2017 – Ohio Linuxfest in Columbus, OH

TechTip #45
Remember that you can mirror your FreeNAS boot device. You’ll thank yourself should one device fail.

Join the Team
iXsystems, the company that sponsors FreeNAS, is looking for talented people to join our team. Interested? The full list of available positions can be found on our website.

Links of the Month

• iXsystems is Hiring Oracle Refugees via Brett Davis
• 360 Drive FreeNAS System via Scott Gilliland Jr

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OpenZFS vs Btrfs
Our senior analyst Michael Dexter takes a look at how the death of Btrfs affects OpenZFS and what the announcement means for the future of storage. Read more >>

How Hard is it to Crash FreeNAS?
Lawrence Systems/PC Pickup recently uploaded a series of FreeNAS tutorial and testing videos. Check them out!
How Hard is it to Crash FreeNAS?
How to Use ZFS Snapshots with Files and VM’s
FreeNAS Testing with Laptop Drives
Controller Upgrade and Moving Volumes

On-Demand FreeNAS Training
iX University provides a series of online training modules presented by FreeNAS expert Michael Dexter that are designed to quickly get you up to speed on the key concepts and techniques that will help you become an expert in FreeNAS and OpenZFS. Watch now >>

Why We Still Love ZFS (Part II) – Free Webinar
We invite you to join Michael W. Lucas and Allan Jude, the co-authors of FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS and Advanced ZFS, for a free webinar about ZFS. Learn how ZFS protects your important data like no other file system can. Read more >>

Live Events
August 27-31, 2017 – VMworld 2017 (Booth #1224) in Las Vegas, NV

TechTip #44
A pfSense router makes a good OpenVPN appliance in front of FreeNAS.

Join the Team
iXsystems, the company that sponsors FreeNAS, is looking for talented people to join our team. Interested? The full list of available positions can be found on our website.

Links of the Month
Episode 205: FreeBSD Turning it up to 11.1 via BSD Now
FreeNAS Server Hardware via Josh Ruehlig

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The XL Deal of the Summer Packed with unbeatable performance and high storage capacity in a small footprint, the Mini XL is perfect for streaming all your movies and TV shows during the long summer days, and now it’s an even BETTER deal! We are reducing the price of FreeNAS Mini XL by $150 so take advantage while you can! Check it out >>

How to Update FreeNAS 9.10 Is your FreeNAS system up to date? Our newest tutorial video demonstrates how to update FreeNAS 9.10 and helps explain the different options available. Watch now >>

FreeNAS Build by Stephen Foskett Stephen Foskett, a tech writer and the organizer of Tech Field Day, decided to replace his older Drobo and Iomega systems with a new FreeNAS server. His new system features a Supermicro motherboard, an Intel Xeon CPU, and 16GB of ECC RAM. Read More >>

How to Run Minio on FreeNAS Thanks to Ben Agricola for writing a guide detailing how to run Minio on FreeNAS. Minio is an object storage server built for cloud application developers and is compatible with Amazon S3. Read More >>

6 Reasons Why TrueNAS is replacing NetApp and EMC – Free Webinar We invite you to join Matt Olander, Co-Founder and CSO of iXsystems, in a free webinar about TrueNAS. Find out why people are making the switch from big-name, legacy storage vendors to TrueNAS. Read more >>

Live Events August 28-Sept. 1, 2016 – VMworld 2016 in Las Vegas, NV September 19-22, 2016 – SNIA SDC in Santa Clara, CA September 22-25, 2016 – EuroBSDcon in Belgrade, Serbia November 11-12, 2016 – MeetBSD CA in Berkeley, CA

TechTip #32 A flash Separate LOG device (SLOG) accelerates synchronous writes. This can make a huge different in VM, database and NFS performance.

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October #MissionComplete Best Stories We received so many great #MissionComplete stories that we had no choice but to declare a tie for October’s best! Congratulations to Justin V. and Todd R. who will receive Amazon Gift Cards and FreeNAS schwag packages for their accounts of their successful missions.Read their full stories on the iXsystems blog and tell us how you have used FreeNAS, FreeBSD, TrueNAS, OpenZFS or iXsystems hardware to complete your mission!

ZFS ZIL and SLOG Demystified As you surely know by now, ZFS is taking extensive measures to safeguard your data and it should be no surprise that these two buzzwords represent key data safeguards. What is not obvious however is that they only come into play under very specific circumstances. Read more >>

TrueFlash Continues Trend of Excellence The all-flash TrueNAS Z50, aka TrueFlash, was ranked “Excellent” in DCIG’s 2015-2016 All-Flash Array Buyer’s Guide. This news comes just months after DCIG awarded the TrueNAS Z20 with an “Excellent” rating in their 2015-2016 Small/Midsize Enterprise (SME) Hybrid Storage Buyer’s Guide. Read more >>

Why I Chose FreeNAS for My Business ” I did not have a lot of experience in [computer hardware] at first and found it much less approachable. That all changed about a year and a half before I started my own firm.“Mary Moore Wallinger shares why she went with FreeNAS when she started her own landscape architecture firm. Read more >>

SeaGL 2015 Recap The third SeaGL Seattle GNU/Linux Conference took place October 23rd and 24th at Seattle Central College in Washington State. Michael Dexter made the trek to the show on behalf of our team and reported back. Don’t forget to check out our photos from the event on Facebook and Google+.

6 Reasons Why TrueNAS is replacing NetApp and EMC – Free Webinar We invite you to join Matt Olander, Co-Founder and CSO of iXsystems, in a free webinar about TrueNAS. Find out why people are making the switch from big-name, legacy storage vendors to TrueNAS. Read more >>

FreeNAS Certification Classes We offer a free Intro to FreeNAS class that runs every day. For those of you interested in learning more about advanced topics, we also offer paid, fully interactive classes. Read more >>

Live Events November 19-21 – Fossetcon in Lake Buena Vista, FL January 21-24, 2016 – SCALE 14x in Pasadena, CA

TechTip #23 From the CLI, you can type: # zfs set copies=2 poolname/dataset name to have two copies of important data in a specific dataset. This will protect the dataset from silent data corruption as if it were mirrored to another disk.

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FreeNAS 9.3.1 is Available It’s not a full RELEASE but as Jordan Hubbard, FreeNAS Project Lead and iXsystems CTO, notes, “…Enough stuff has changed that we thought it time to increment the minor version in order to denote that we’ve now reached a point of stability and bug fix quality that merits a small permutation of the naming.” Read More>>

Defeating Cryptolocker Attacks with ZFS “CryptoLocker is a joke with ZFS.” Todd Ladouceur, the CTO of Plextec, shares how his company combats CryptoLocker attacks by using FreeNAS and ZFS. Read more >>

FreeNAS 9.3 Permissions Overview By popular request, our newest tutorial video covers permissions properties for Windows, Mac, and Unix on FreeNAS 9.3. Watch it here>>

VMworld 2015 The team is back from VMworld. Our iXsystems booth was mobbed by many attendees who were familiar with FreeNAS and TrueNAS. During the show, we raffled off a 8TB FreeNAS Mini and held a Street Fighter II tournament. Check out our final show recap and the photos from the expo (Days 1 & 2 and Day 3).

6 Reasons Why TrueNAS is replacing NetApp and EMC – Free Webinar We invite you to join Matt Olander, Co-Founder of iXsystems, in a free webinar about TrueNAS. Find out why people are making the switch from big-name, legacy storage vendors to TrueNAS. Read more >>

FreeNAS Certification Classes We offer a free Intro to FreeNAS class that runs every day. For those of you interested in learning more about advanced topics, we also offer paid, fully interactive classes. Read more >>

Live Events September 11 – 13 – vBSDcon 2015 in Reston, VA October 1 – 4 – EuroBSDCon in Stockholm, Sweden October 2 – 3 – Ohio Linuxfest in Columbus, Ohio

TechTip #20 Active Directory acting abnormally? Double check that your FreeNAS systems is synchronizing its clock with an NTP server.

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