Two Truenas Scale Systems treated as 1

[xero-degrees]

I was curious if you could run 2 Truenas scale servers as one service. What I mean by this and what I would want from this is to store each system at a different location and say for instance one of the servers crashes and burns all of the same apps and data that would run on the other server. I would love it if you could create an app on one system like Nextcloud or Photoprism, and I start uploading data to it either overnight or whenever to the other server automatically. Then in a situation, I lost one server the other server could pick up the slack. Also if this is possible could I make is so there is a load balancer so that when traffic comes in it will send it to whichever system is not being used?

 

[morganL]

I was curious if you could run 2 Truenas scale servers as one service. What I mean by this and what I would want from this is to store each system at a different location and say for instance one of the servers crashes and burns all of the same apps and data that would run on the other server. I would love it if you could create an app on one system like Nextcloud or Photoprism, and I start uploading data to it either overnight or whenever to the other server automatically. Then in a situation, I lost one server the other server could pick up the slack. Also if this is possible could I make is so there is a load balancer so that when traffic comes in it will send it to whichever system is not being used?

No.. much easier said than done.

You can replicate a primary system to a secondary system.... but the failover requires administration.

 

[Davvo]

Also if this is possible could I make is so there is a load balancer so that when traffic comes in it will send it to whichever system is not being used?

I think this is something you can do with proper network design.

For the rest maybe, and I say maybe since I don't use it myself and know very little about it, you can look into clustering and therefore TrueCommand.

 

[xero-degrees]

I started to use truecommand but I want to have a way that if one of the truenas systems fails the other system will continue to run and can run all of the apps. Is there anyway to do this?