Comments on: TrueNAS SCALE Release Plan

By: Bobby L.

Bobby L. — Sat, 01 May 2021 16:42:08 +0000

Is TrueNAS Scale ready for home use?

By: Kris Moore

Kris Moore — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 22:02:17 +0000

In reply to Sam M..

iSCSI HA is on the table, but may not be included on initial release. Right now focus is on multi-channel SMB and of course native glusterfs client access (the most optimal method). The official gluster docs even recommend this method for iSCSI if you are curious:
https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/Administrator-Guide/GlusterFS-iSCSI/#running-the-iscsi-target-on-the-gluster-client
Right now the majority of API work to support gluster is already merged into the TrueNAS SCALE nightly images. Most of the GUI work is taking place inside of TrueCommand, and is shaping up nicely. Cluster creation is already supported, and we’re fleshing out other aspects of it. I’ll be doing a forum post on the status, as well as some screenshots in the coming weeks.

By: Sam M.

Sam M. — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 00:01:01 +0000

What is the overall design/intention for HA iSCSI targets in TrueNAS SCALE? I ask because 1, it seems that the clustering related features (especially GUI) are getting few mentions & seemingly low priority; and 2, things I’ve read *implied* that SCALE’s clustering has more file sharing like SMB & NFS in mind as opposed to block sharing like iSCSI. For example, one post *speculation* was that Gluster compared cluster nodes at a file level as opposed to a block level. Since iSCSI tends to look like 1 massive file instead of a ton of small files as SMB/NFS shares can appear to storage servers, the fear is that when a node falls out of sync, that the entire iSCSI file has to be replicated instead of just the part that’s changed. I emphasis “speculation” because I have no idea how this is really supposed to work.
For context (TL/DR): Our current FreeNAS server hosts several iSCSI targets being served to a number of ESXi hosts & Windows VM’s. We’d love to do the same thing, but with a HA TrueNAS server instead.

By: Michael Dexter

Michael Dexter — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 20:30:45 +0000

In reply to MP. This is a popular request and while this is not planned for the initial release, you could submit a feature request.

By: MP

MP — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 20:24:03 +0000

Will there be a high-availability or failover feature for KVM guests?

By: Joon Lee

Joon Lee — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 00:02:51 +0000

In reply to Luke Fearn. No, they are separate products!

By: Luke Fearn

Luke Fearn — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 15:58:09 +0000

Am I able to move from TrueNAS Core to Scale easily and import existing pools & configuration? Thanks

By: Michael Dexter

Michael Dexter — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 02:32:58 +0000

In reply to Nate Moore.

TrueNAS CORE is proven for production use while the key upcoming features of TrueNAS SCALE are Linux containers and scale-out, rather than up storage. The main page provides a comparison of the key features: https://www.truenas.com/

By: Michael Dexter

Michael Dexter — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 02:20:51 +0000

In reply to Travis Watson. Yes, Intel / Nvidia passthrough to containers is working well and the GUI elements are being finalized.

By: Michael Dexter

Michael Dexter — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 01:56:20 +0000

In reply to Kev.

Is your use case for your NAS to sleep at night? Many motherboards have a “daily schedule” and you should be able to shutdown and have the BIOS wake it on a schedule, or use Wake on LAN (WOL). If sleep is the only solution, please share your use case to this ticket: https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-106687