Exploring TrueNAS CORE with iXsystems

StorageReview and iXsystems participate in a YouTube Live Stream as the team breaks down the latest in TrueNAS CORE 12 (evolution of FreeNAS), including sneak peaks at new features and functionality. We also dive into TrueNAS SCALE, the latest offering due to be released in 2021.

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[Speccyk]

Nice release, thanks. Noticed the ´Cancel’ yellow button is not always at the same position. A bit confusing. The ‘Create, Add or Confirm’ buttons should be green to clarify the action

[mihaipopa]

Yet another great show on this channel, thanks!

[JudahRichardson]

Much love to you guys for this content.

[FlaxTheSeedOne]

I really am excited.
I do wish tho what i also asked in the stream that a cache drive setup can be divided into a block that can be used for VMs/Jails/Dockers and one which can be used forcaching.
The reason for it is SSDs get so big and so cheap these days that they would be a waste for like 50gb of jails with 200gb left doing nothing which could be used as a cache. Especially for small nas Builds which there are plenty in node 304s in itx size there is often not an option to just add another drive for jails and have space for some for caching. Especially when the expansion slot available will be taken up by a GPU or networkcard.
I really hope this will be and can be implemented with a I.E. hybrid caching mode for Arrays/Pools for example.

[afterthesmash]

Another 3 minutes on the extra management complexity surrounding the fusion pools would have been nice, but otherwise a pretty good overview. What happens when you fill up the SSD portion? I'm none the wiser.

[prjectSkyneT]

What are the differences/pros/cons of using a Fusion Pool vs L2ARC (with maybe SLOG)?
Can you add flash devices to an existing pool anytime to create a fusion pool or does a fusion pool need to be setup from the get-go? If you have a fusion pool, can you add L2ARC (and SLOG) on top of it?

[mg.]

In the fusion drive example 2x2TB HDD are used and 2x 1.5TB SSD as meta. The available ZFS storage is about 1.7TB. If the SSD is almost the size of HDD, whats the point using the fusion option?

[bergshiretech]

Limit 50 disk you can use truenas? Not free any more. I miss freenas already

[SayWhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat]

STUPID SHIT NEEDS 8GB OF RAM.. GARBAGE SYSTEM