Unified Storage that Scales Up or Out
TrueNAS (formerly known as FreeNAS) is the world’s most popular storage OS because it’s the only universal and unified data platform, giving you the freedom to use file, block, or object storage plus Apps to scale up or out depending on your needs. It is built on the ZFS filesystem, giving you unparalleled enterprise-grade data protection. Features include snapshots, replication, and built-in RAID, providing a robust, highly reliable and versatile storage solution.
Open Storage that Scales
TrueNAS® SCALE Community Edition is an Open Source Infrastructure solution with community support. Zstor server and storage solutions can be preinstalled with TrueNAS SCALE for various enterprise-grade storage needs, ranging from backup and archive to virtual machine storage and private cloud. In addition to powerful scale-out storage capabilities including SMB, NFS, iSCSI and S3, SCALE adds Linux Containers and VMs (KVM) so your organization can run workloads closer to data.
Scale-Up or Scale-Out
OpenZFS with its excellent data management capabilities is the basis for all deployments. Scale-up by adding drives, or deploy scale-out object storage by adding multiple systems to a cluster. Deploy a single host, or group nodes together for a highly scalable and highly available software-defined infrastructure.
Hardware
No matter if it is a high-density 102-bay storage server, a server with JBODs, or a NVMe-server - TrueNAS SCALE can be preinstalled on Zstor enterprise hardware. With support for SATA, SAS and NVMe as well as networking options from multiple 1G to 100G interfaces, all possible needs are covered.
High-Availability
RSF-1 for ZFS is a fully featured software-only middleware product that turns TrueNAS SCALE into highly available ZFS cluster appliance, which can be installed and ready for enterprise use within minutes. Active-active configurations, secure data fencing and stateful heartbeats secure a stable and enterprise-grade infrastructure while upgrades without downtime and feature rich management provide a resilient functionality.
Zstor offers high-availability solutions with TrueNAS SCALE and RSF-1 for ZFS preinstalled. The Zstor NVMe HA Solution with TrueNAS Scale and RSF-1 is one example, and custom solutions can be designed.
Go Beyond Storage
TrueNAS SCALE allows you to easily customise and expand functionality with various free Apps, like Plex Media Server, NextCloud, Prometheus, Elastic Search, Emby, and many others. It also provides simple access to the well-established Linux container ecosystem, with support for KVM virtual machines, Kubernetes, and Docker containers. This can be used to build hyper-converged solutions.
TrueNAS SCALE Open Storage Features | |||
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| Multi-System Management | TrueCommand, RBAC, Auditing, Single Sign-on, Cloud | Alerting, Reporting, Analytics | TrueCommand 3.0 SCALE UI Improved Statistics |
| Administration | Web UI, SNMP, Syslog, Reporting, CLI | REST API, WebSockets API, Audit Logging | API ACLs, Restricted Admins |
| System Utilities | Tasks, Cron Jobs, Scripts, In-Service Updates | Alerting, Email, Debugs, SMB/NFS Session Management | SMB Activity Audits |
| Clients and Applications | Windows, MacOS, Linux, UNIX, iOS, Android Clients | Many applications via SMB, NFS, iSCSI, or S3 client | Integrated Applications via ZFS and Containers/VMs |
| Application Services | Apps (Helm Charts), Docker Containers, Kubernetes, New Apps UI and Catalogs, GPU sharing | VMs: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, PCIe pass-through, Community Supported Sandboxes | Apps: OverlayFS, Alder Lake GPU, GeForce 40xx GPUs, Bulk App Updates VMs: USB pass-through, CPU Pinning |
| Directory Services | Active Directory, Google 2FA | Local users and groups | LDAP, Kerberos |
| Storage Services | File: SMB 2/3, NFSv3/v4, rsync, Multi-protocol shares with SMB and NFSv4, SMB Multi-channel, NFSv4.1 | Block: iSCSI, VAAI Object: Distributed Minio, Cloud Sync, Credentials Data Ingest over SMB | SMB Share proxy, OpenStack Cinder, SMB Data Migration CSI (iSCSI, Gluster, SMB, NFS) |
| Data Management | Unlimited Snapshots, Pool Checkpoints, Space-efficient Clones | Replication: Remote, Local, Auto-resume, to any OpenZFS endpoint | Improved Storage UI Improved Share Creation Forms |
| Data Protection | Accelerated Copy-on-Write, 2-Copy Metadata, iX-Storj Globally Distributed Storage | Built-in RAID: Single/Dual/Triple Parity, Mirrors, dRAID, Fast Resilvering, Fast Boot | Self-healing Checksums, Background Scrubbing |
| Data Reduction | Thin Provisioning, Fast File Cloning (SMB/NFS) | In-line Compression | ZFS Clones, Deduplication, SSD TRIM/UNMAP |
| Data Acceleration | All Flash, Fusion Pools, Metadata on Flash Improved Prefetch | Read Cache (ARC/L2ARC): RAM / Flash | Write Cache (SLOG/ZIL): Flash, Dual Port SAS/NVMe |
| Networking | Full IPv4 and IPv6 | LAGG, LACP, VLANs, Interface Bridging | Jumbo Frames, TCP options |
| Data Security | Self-Encrypted Drives (TCG Opal), Dataset Encryption | Encrypted replication, WireGuard, OpenVPN | ACLs, IP Filtering |
| Foundation | Debian, Boot Management, SSH, Container | Kubernetes, KVM | System Logging, Time Synchronization |
| High Availability | Fast ZFS Replication | 10 - 100 GbE Clustering, LAGG and/or LACP | Dual Controller High-Availability with RSF-1 for ZFS |
| Hardware Management | IPMI Remote Management | SAS JBODs, Global Spares | SMART, SSD Wear Monitoring |
| Support | Community Support - Forums, Documentation, Release Notes, Bug Ticketing | ||
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