iXsystems to Release TrueNAS Enterprise F-Series All-NVMe Appliances and TrueNAS SCALE 23.10
November 2023 by Marc Jacob
The TrueNAS Enterprise F-Series is iXsystems’ new flagship line of storage appliances. These all-NVMe models were designed for maximum performance, reliability and density to serve the most demanding workloads. With 30TB NVMe drives, a single 2U system supports 720TB of highly available storage. Compared to prior models from iX, F-Series offers significant reductions in power, space and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
TrueNAS F-Series appliances ship with the latest version of TrueNAS software, TrueNAS Enterprise 23.10. With the latest generation hardware and software, IT organizations have a new choice to address demanding performance requirements with Open Source economics. The new solution from iXsystems supports data intensive use cases including AI/ML, containerization, content creation, database servers, gaming, and virtualization. The new series has been eagerly awaited by the company’s thousands of global customers at enterprise, government, service provider, and media creation organizations.
TrueNAS Enterprise 23.10 integrates across the iXsystems’ appliance portfolio, offering storage, compute, and container solutions for a flexible feature-rich storage environment. The Linux-based platform uniquely offers native container support, Kubernetes integration for containerized applications, and the ability to scale up to 1,200 drives and 25PB+ in a single system. The highly evolved TrueNAS storage operating system emphasizes scalability and high-availability, boasting a scale-up or scale-out architecture, built on the robust OpenZFS 2.2 filesystem. This ensures top-notch data integrity and advanced storage features to meet the most data-intensive business challenges.
Highlights of TrueNAS Enterprise 23.10 include:
– Upgraded to OpenZFS 2.2 with multiple iXsystems contributions
– Upgraded to Linux Kernel 6.1 with improved hardware support
– NVIDIA 535.54.03 driver updates
– Improved application UI
– Enhanced storage pool UI
– ZFS Block Cloning (Deduplication) for SMB and NFS file copies
– ZFS dRAID Pool Layouts
TrueNAS F-Series Storage Highlights:
– High-performance NVMe-powered storage for low latency and bandwidths greater than 20GB/s Next-Generation Hardware: Designed to provide unrivaled resilience and drive density.
– Superior Scalability: The F-Series easily scales from tens of terabytes to 720TB in 2U, meeting a wide range of user requirements. Both scale-up and scale-out technologies can be used for higher capacity
– High Availability: Dual-controller architecture provides continuous accessibility, preventing data downtime.
– Maximum data mobility: The TrueNAS F-Series provides a vast array of connectivity options to maximize interoperability.
– Future-Ready Design: Built for modern business applications and the challenges they present.
The TrueNAS M-Series remains the versatile and high capacity system for hybrid flash and HDD requirements in the portfolio. Both the M-Series and F-Series systems run the same TrueNAS Enterprise 23.10 software with compatible features and a common WebUI.