Month: June 2024

IXsystems TrueNAS M Series At STH, we have many readers that are FreeNAS users either personally or for their SMB operations or client operations. The company behind FreeNAS is iXsystems who sells commercially validated and supported hardware based on TrueNAS, a cousin of FreeNAS. This week, iXsystem launched two innovative storage solutions, the TrueNAS M-Series with the M40 and M50 systems highlighting the launch. iXsystems TrueNAS M-Series M40 and M50 The TrueNAS M40 and M50 share a somewhat common base. At their heart, they utilize a 4U 24x 3.5″ head unit that comes in a dual-controller design for high availability.…

TrueNAS LogoIn the grand orchestra of digital media, the search for the perfect conductor and the most harmonious instrument can often feel like an endless symphony, a composition that’s perpetually being written. The digital landscape is vast, filled with a multitude of options that can leave even the most tech-savvy maestros feeling overwhelmed. However, amidst this digital cacophony, two platforms have emerged as the virtuosos of this realm, Plex Media Server and TrueNAS.Much like my early days of piano lessons, where I relied more on my keen sense of hearing than reading sheet music, navigating the world of digital media…

Two Kubernetes-related news stories in this week’s storage news round up. Diamanti has debuted a software-only offering and Robin.io has upgraded its core offering and introduced a full-featured but capacity-limited free-for-life software edition. HYCU has found another great sub-niche for its data protection – SAP HANA on Google Cloud, and iXsystems has added two more products to its TrueNAS range. Diamanti Ultima Diamanti, the supplier of a hyperconverged system for running Kubernetes orchestration of containers, has announced a standalone software product called Ultima. This is an integrated networking and storage data plane system and extends across on-premises and cloud-based environments,…

TrueNAS SCALE "Dragonfish" 24.04 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 vCenter Plugin (E), API ACLs, Restricted Admins System Utilities Tasks, Cron Jobs, Scripts, In-Service Updates Alerting, Email, Debugs, SMB/NFS Session Management Proactive Monitoring (E) 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…