Category: TrueNAS

The world’s number one open-source operating system, TrueNAS brings the performance and features of the legendary OpenZFS file system in an easy to use package. Available in two free and open-source software versions, TrueNAS also comes as a professionally-supported Enterprise solution when coupled with iXsystems branded hardware.

AMD Rome Scalability is EPYC

AMD Rome Scalability is EPYC

After more than a year of success and traction with the first generation AMD EPYC 7000 CPUs (formerly known as “Naples”), iXsystems has introduced AMD’s second generation EPYC 7002 processor family (formerly known as “Rome”) into its line of iX servers. AMD Rome brings exciting possibilities and truly “EPYC” value to the table with incredible scalability, increased memory speeds and bandwidth, bountiful next-gen I/O capability, and cost efficiency leadership.

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FreeNAS and TrueNAS 11.3 make their Debuts

FreeNAS and TrueNAS 11.3 make their Debuts

iXsystems is proud to present FreeNAS 11.3-BETA1! FreeNAS 11.3 will represent another major advancement in the quality and functionality of the leading Open Storage platform. Building upon the very popular API and Web UI improvements of FreeNAS 11.2, FreeNAS 11.3 introduces easy-setup wizards, major replication improvements, and over 500 other enhancements.

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Veeam Configuration Recommendations for TrueNAS

Veeam Configuration Recommendations for TrueNAS

TrueNAS is well suited to back up and archive storage workloads. Offering incredible scalability in a single share, TrueNAS systems can continuously extend storage pools to grow to several petabytes in size without the need for clustering. For users looking to deploy Veeam, or to update their storage repositories, TrueNAS is the ideal data target. 

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IBC 2019 Conference Recap

IBC 2019 Conference Recap

The International Broadcasters Convention has grown since 1967 to over 1700 exhibitors and over 50,000 attendees. Taking place in Amsterdam RAI each September, the event is a perfect place for organizations around the world to meet up with their European partners, customers, and advocates. iXsystems attended with our partner Cantemo iconik to announce the release of the iconik storage gateway plugin for FreeNAS.

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Mount a TrueNAS or FreeNAS Share to a Docker Host

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. TrueNAS users can follow the same process and provide high-availability (HA) shares to their Docker hosts. With the upcoming TrueNAS 11.3 release, the TrueNAS web interface will also be similar to the FreeNAS web interface shown in this blog.

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TrueNAS Updates for VMware vSphere

TrueNAS Updates for VMware vSphere

TrueNAS Unified Storage is always improving its support of virtualization and private clouds. Pairing the reliable and scalable performance of ZFS with all-flash and hybrid-flash configurations, TrueNAS is a natural fit for the virtual storage backends of VMware ESXi®, Microsoft® Hyper-V®, XenServer®, or KVM hypervisors. 

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Take Command with TrueNAS

Take Command with TrueNAS

TrueNAS 11.2 is here with a slew of performance, architecture, and usability enhancements. The update features enhanced APIs, ZFS improvements, and multi-threaded Samba 4.9 to ensure users are getting maximum performance and manageability.

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Open ZFS vs. Btrfs | and other file systems

Open ZFS vs. Btrfs | and other file systems

Michael Dexter returns to update his blog post on the different file systems and details some key developments that are unfolding. He covers what’s being added to these respective file systems: OpenZFS, Btrfs, and bcachefs. Michael Dexter has invested his volunteer time and career in Open Source hypervisors and file systems and is saddened to hear that a fledgling alternative to OpenZFS, suffered a setback this week with Red Hat’s announcement that it is deprecating Btrfs as a “Preview” file system.

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ZFS vs. OpenZFS

ZFS vs. OpenZFS

You’ve probably heard us say a mix of “ZFS” and “OpenZFS” and an explanation is long overdue. Our Senior Analyst clears up what ZFS and OpenZFS refer to and how they differ.

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Run S3 Object Storage on FreeNAS and TrueNAS

Run S3 Object Storage on FreeNAS and TrueNAS

The iXsystems Team discusses how to set up the S3 service on FreeNAS, as well as how to connect several S3 tools to the storage. With Plugins, Jails, Docker, VMs, S3 object storage, and cost savings of up to 80% compared to renting cloud storage, FreeNAS and TrueNAS are the perfect storage platforms for developers and web service providers.

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