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.
TrueNAS 12.0-U7 was released today and is recommended for even the most conservative users of FreeNAS, TrueNAS CORE, and TrueNAS Enterprise. It will ship by default on all new TrueNAS systems. Assuming no unforeseen issues, U7 is likely to be the last of the TrueNAS...
Today we are announcing a partnership with Nextcloud to provide an officially supported integration with TrueNAS. Nextcloud and TrueNAS are the #1 Open Source platforms for team collaboration and software-defined storage, respectively. The Nextcloud software suite...
TrueNAS 12.0-U6 was released yesterday and is now the recommended update for even the most conservative users of both TrueNAS CORE and TrueNAS Enterprise. It will now ship by default on all new TrueNAS systems. TrueNAS 12.0-U5 and U5.1 were the most popular releases...
FreeNAS reigned as the world’s most popular Open Source Software-Defined Storage (SDS) from 2009 to 2020. During Q3 2020, TrueNAS 12.0 was introduced, which started the transition of FreeNAS merging into TrueNAS. Within a year, TrueNAS is now the new #1 Open Source...
TrueNAS has integrated well with VMware and vSphere for many years by maintaining VMware-ready certification status and including support for vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI), vSphere Storage DRS, a vCenter plugin, and other integrations. In 2021, the TrueNAS...
The migration of FreeNAS to TrueNAS started in October 2020. The transition has been deliberately slow and methodical, while the efficiency gains have been every bit the windfall we anticipated. Over this period, many exabytes of data were carefully managed while the...
Accurately predicting storage performance and capacity needs for the next twelve months is a struggle for most customers, let alone predicting it over the entire 5+ year lifetime of a storage system. To make matters worse, even if it were possible to predict that far...
TrueNAS 12.0-U3 was released and marks an important milestone in the transition from FreeNAS to TrueNAS. TrueNAS 12.0 is now considered by iXsystems to be a higher quality release than FreeNAS 11.3-U5, our previous benchmark, and is now ready for mission-critical enterprise deployments.
TrueNAS 12.0-U2 resolves many bug fixes and introduces some new minor features. It is an easy web update for CORE users while Enterprise users can automatically update via the web UI on February 23rd. There will soon be a migration path from TrueNAS CORE to TrueNAS SCALE!
Congratulations to the OpenZFS Community! OpenZFS 2.0.0 hit the RELEASE milestone on November 30, 2020. OpenZFS 2.0 represents a new era for both the project and the file system itself, and iXsystems is proud to have contributed to such a significant engineering accomplishment. We’re also excited to announce its official availability to our Community starting immediately, making TrueNAS the first software to officially include it in a release.
