Debian-based TrueNAS Scale gets an update • The Register

Enterprise NAS vendor iXsystems has up to date its Kubernetes-capable Debian-based NAS OS, and scored Digital Public Good standing too.

iXsystems now has a household of devoted storage-server OSes, and the brand new launch of TrueNAS Scale, version 22.12.1. The corporate has a really cautious, slow-moving lifecycle – which is what you need from a vendor whose choices will maintain all of your company information.

On the finish of final yr, it launched Scale 22.12, codenamed “Bluefin”, as we predicted when we covered TrueNAS Core version 13 final Could. The corporate’s Morgan Littlewood informed us: “‘Bluefin’ was the primary full launch, and that is the ‘point-one’ model of that.”

On the time of writing, the corporate’s Software program Standing page hasn’t but been up to date with the brand new model, however there you may learn its description of the suitability of every model. Its point-one releases mark the purpose the place it considers the software program prepared for manufacturing use for “common”, “conservative” and “mission-critical” prospects.

TrueNAS Scale is the latest version of TrueNAS, and barely surprisingly for the most important industrial vendor of FreeBSD merchandise, Scale relies on Linux: particularly, on Debian. The reason being principally Kubernetes. In any other case, Scale appears and works very very like its elder siblings: it has the identical UI, and runs on the identical OpenZFS storage back-end, because the FreeBSD-based TrueNAS Core, which is the free version of the OS that the corporate sells on its Enterprise merchandise. You possibly can even do an in-place improve from the FreeBSD-based TrueNAS Core to TrueNAS Scale, and it’ll retain your config – it can even migrate Core’s bhyve-based VMs to Scale’s KVM VMs.

Reg sister web site Blocks & Recordsdata has looked at TrueNAS Scale’s clustering support, in addition to its cloudy Global Distributed Storage partnership with StorJ.

The corporate can be proud that TrueNAS has gained certification as a Digital Public Good. The DPG standard is a worldwide cooperative effort to make sure that FOSS merchandise meet the United Nations’ guidelines for digital cooperation.

It additionally has a brand new mannequin in what, for iXsystems, is its low-end line, TrueNAS Mini. The TrueNAS Mini-R is a 12-drive rackmount mannequin and begins at $1,998, so it isn’t going to trigger client NAS shifters similar to Synology to sweat. Its providing for residence customers is the free TrueNAS Core, which you’ll run on any PC-compatible equipment: The Reg FOSS desk has a few cases, one on an outdated HP Microserver N54L and one other on a barely newer Microserver G8. It really works high-quality in 8GB of RAM, and fortunately talks SMB, NFS and AppleTalk, together with appearing as a networked Time Machine for a few outdated Intel Macs. ®