Debian-based TrueNAS Scale updated – and iXsystems wins a gong
(2023/02/23)
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Enterprise NAS vendor iXsystems has updated its Kubernetes-capable Debian-based NAS OS, and scored Digital Public Good status too.
iXsystems now has a family of dedicated storage-server OSes, and the new release of TrueNAS Scale, [1]version 22.12.1 . The company has a very cautious, slow-moving [2]lifecycle – which is what you want from a vendor whose offerings will hold all your corporate data.
At the end of last year, it released Scale 22.12, codenamed "Bluefin", as [3]we predicted when we covered TrueNAS Core version 13 last May. The company's Morgan Littlewood told us: "'Bluefin' was the first full release, and this is the 'point-one' version of that."
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At the time of writing, the company's Software Status [5]page hasn't yet been updated with the new version, but there you can read its description of the suitability of each version. Its point-one releases mark the point where it considers the software ready for production use for "general", "conservative" and "mission-critical" customers.
[6]Transmission FOSS BitTorrent client hits version 4.0
[7]helloSystem 0.8: A friendly, all-graphical FreeBSD
[8]FreeBSD 13.1 is out for everything from PowerPC to x86-64
[9]OpenZFS 2.1.3 bugfix brings compatibility with Linux 5.16
[10]TrueNAS Scale is the newest edition of TrueNAS, and slightly surprisingly for the biggest commercial vendor of FreeBSD products, Scale is based on Linux: specifically, on Debian. The reason is basically Kubernetes. Otherwise, Scale looks and works very much like its elder siblings: it has the same UI, and runs on the same OpenZFS storage back-end as the FreeBSD-based TrueNAS Core, which is the free edition of the OS that the company sells on its Enterprise products. You can even do an in-place upgrade from the FreeBSD-based TrueNAS Core to TrueNAS Scale, and it will retain your config – it will even migrate Core's bhyve-based VMs to Scale's KVM VMs.
Reg sister site Blocks & Files has [11]looked at TrueNAS Scale's clustering support , as well as its cloudy [12]Global Distributed Storage partnership with StorJ .
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The company is also proud that TrueNAS has won [14]certification as a Digital Public Good. The DPG [15]standard is a worldwide cooperative effort to ensure that FOSS products meet the United Nations' [16]guidelines for digital cooperation.
It also has a new model in what, for iXsystems, is its low-end line, [17]TrueNAS Mini . The TrueNAS Mini-R is a 12-drive rackmount model and starts at $1,998, so it's not going to cause consumer NAS shifters such as [18]Synology to sweat. Its offering for home users is the free TrueNAS Core, which you can run on any PC-compatible kit: The Reg FOSS desk has a couple of instances, one on an old HP Microserver N54L and another on a slightly newer Microserver G8. It works fine in 8GB of RAM, and happily talks SMB, NFS and AppleTalk, including acting as a networked Time Machine for a couple of old Intel Macs. ®
Get our [19]Tech Resources
[1] https://www.truenas.com/docs/scale/scale22.12/#22121
[2] https://www.truenas.com/docs/scale/scale22.12/#software-lifecycle
[3] https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/11/truenas_13_released/
[4] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_onprem/storage&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2Y-dHTTMY5QaPabjWwD4JVgAAAMg&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
[5] https://www.truenas.com/software-status/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/08/transmission_bittorrent_v4/
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/31/hellosystem_08/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/20/freebsd_131/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/12/openzfs_213/
[10] https://www.truenas.com/truenas-scale/
[11] https://blocksandfiles.com/2022/06/27/ixsystems-adds-high-availability-and-smb-clustering-features-to-its-scale-out-nas/
[12] https://blocksandfiles.com/2022/09/15/ixsystems-bluefin-truenas-storage-cloud/
[13] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_onprem/storage&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44Y-dHTTMY5QaPabjWwD4JVgAAAMg&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[14] https://app.digitalpublicgoods.net/a/10299
[15] https://github.com/DPGAlliance/DPG-Standard
[16] https://www.un.org/en/content/digital-cooperation-roadmap/
[17] https://www.truenas.com/truenas-mini/
[18] https://www.theregister.com/Tag/Synology/
[19] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
iXsystems now has a family of dedicated storage-server OSes, and the new release of TrueNAS Scale, [1]version 22.12.1 . The company has a very cautious, slow-moving [2]lifecycle – which is what you want from a vendor whose offerings will hold all your corporate data.
At the end of last year, it released Scale 22.12, codenamed "Bluefin", as [3]we predicted when we covered TrueNAS Core version 13 last May. The company's Morgan Littlewood told us: "'Bluefin' was the first full release, and this is the 'point-one' version of that."
[4]
At the time of writing, the company's Software Status [5]page hasn't yet been updated with the new version, but there you can read its description of the suitability of each version. Its point-one releases mark the point where it considers the software ready for production use for "general", "conservative" and "mission-critical" customers.
[6]Transmission FOSS BitTorrent client hits version 4.0
[7]helloSystem 0.8: A friendly, all-graphical FreeBSD
[8]FreeBSD 13.1 is out for everything from PowerPC to x86-64
[9]OpenZFS 2.1.3 bugfix brings compatibility with Linux 5.16
[10]TrueNAS Scale is the newest edition of TrueNAS, and slightly surprisingly for the biggest commercial vendor of FreeBSD products, Scale is based on Linux: specifically, on Debian. The reason is basically Kubernetes. Otherwise, Scale looks and works very much like its elder siblings: it has the same UI, and runs on the same OpenZFS storage back-end as the FreeBSD-based TrueNAS Core, which is the free edition of the OS that the company sells on its Enterprise products. You can even do an in-place upgrade from the FreeBSD-based TrueNAS Core to TrueNAS Scale, and it will retain your config – it will even migrate Core's bhyve-based VMs to Scale's KVM VMs.
Reg sister site Blocks & Files has [11]looked at TrueNAS Scale's clustering support , as well as its cloudy [12]Global Distributed Storage partnership with StorJ .
[13]
The company is also proud that TrueNAS has won [14]certification as a Digital Public Good. The DPG [15]standard is a worldwide cooperative effort to ensure that FOSS products meet the United Nations' [16]guidelines for digital cooperation.
It also has a new model in what, for iXsystems, is its low-end line, [17]TrueNAS Mini . The TrueNAS Mini-R is a 12-drive rackmount model and starts at $1,998, so it's not going to cause consumer NAS shifters such as [18]Synology to sweat. Its offering for home users is the free TrueNAS Core, which you can run on any PC-compatible kit: The Reg FOSS desk has a couple of instances, one on an old HP Microserver N54L and another on a slightly newer Microserver G8. It works fine in 8GB of RAM, and happily talks SMB, NFS and AppleTalk, including acting as a networked Time Machine for a couple of old Intel Macs. ®
Get our [19]Tech Resources
[1] https://www.truenas.com/docs/scale/scale22.12/#22121
[2] https://www.truenas.com/docs/scale/scale22.12/#software-lifecycle
[3] https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/11/truenas_13_released/
[4] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_onprem/storage&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2Y-dHTTMY5QaPabjWwD4JVgAAAMg&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
[5] https://www.truenas.com/software-status/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/08/transmission_bittorrent_v4/
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/31/hellosystem_08/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/20/freebsd_131/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/12/openzfs_213/
[10] https://www.truenas.com/truenas-scale/
[11] https://blocksandfiles.com/2022/06/27/ixsystems-adds-high-availability-and-smb-clustering-features-to-its-scale-out-nas/
[12] https://blocksandfiles.com/2022/09/15/ixsystems-bluefin-truenas-storage-cloud/
[13] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_onprem/storage&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44Y-dHTTMY5QaPabjWwD4JVgAAAMg&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[14] https://app.digitalpublicgoods.net/a/10299
[15] https://github.com/DPGAlliance/DPG-Standard
[16] https://www.un.org/en/content/digital-cooperation-roadmap/
[17] https://www.truenas.com/truenas-mini/
[18] https://www.theregister.com/Tag/Synology/
[19] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/