iXsystems Unveils Extremely Fast OpenZFS Storage System With TrueNAS M60

TrueNAS Open Storage suite from IXsystems, Inc. expands with M60 Unified Storage System powered by the faster TrueNAS 12.0 Open Storage OS.

Truenas M60

Delivering on demands for affordable capacity, security, and performance, the TrueNAS M60 provides high-performance OpenZFS storage to meet demanding virtualization, multimedia and backup applications.

TrueNAS 12.0 is the newest version of the Open Source storage OS, based on the OpenZFS file system. It unifies the software, documentation and branding of FreeNAS and TrueNAS and can be used with existing customer hardware or with a range of storage solutions available through TrueNAS resellers. New features available in include many security and performance enhancements for enterprise users:

Enhanced enterprise security

Dataset encryption for very secure remote replication
Key Management Interoperability Protocol for drives and datasets
2-factor administrator authentication
API keys for TrueCommand vSphere, and other REST API systems
OpenVPN client and server integration.

Performance Improvements

Fusion pools with mixed SSDs and HDDs (metadata on flash)
NVME SSDs with HA, persistent read cache
ZFS improvements: Async ops, vectorization
iSCSI, SMB and NFS improvements (>20%)

Leading the TrueNAS product line and leveraging OpenZFS is the TrueNAS M60 Unified Storage System. Now available, the TrueNAS M60 joins the M-Series flagship line of unified storage arrays. It is configured for enterprise environments where HA and performance are a mandate. The systems provide unified file, block, and object storage with single or dual-controller and hybrid, fusion or all-flash configurations.

Capabilities of TrueNAS M60 include

20PB hybrid capacity with 1,200x18TB HDDs
3,800TB all-flash capacity
1.5TB RAM and 64 CPU cores
128GB of NVDIMM fast write cache
NVMe flash tier of 12.8TB
8x100GbE network connectivity
1 million IO/s
15GB/s bandwidth

“There has been increasing demand from midsize and enterprise organizations for higher price/performance storage solutions that also have the flexibility, functionality, and reliability for today’s changing business environments,” said Morgan Littlewood, SVP, project management and business development. “With the M60, we are leading the Open Storage revolution, both with high performance hardware and the increased performance of TrueNAS 12.0 – improving Open Source economics for channel partners and customer organizations globally.”

Comments

iXsystems confirms its momentum and the right choices made several years ago especially around ZFS.

TrueNAS 12.0 represents a new era for the company, simplifying its image and the product line as several systems and OS coexist. This release unifies past OS iterations and reduce choices and hesitations with today 3 editions: Core, Enterprise and Scale.

TrueNAS Core = FreeNAS

TrueNAS Enterprise = TrueNAS

TrueNAS Scale = New, coming later this year

It delivers 30% performance improvements in latency, IO/s and bandwidth. OpenZFS 2.0 introduces several key features like Fusion Pools and new L2ARC for write cache and it reinforces iXsystems market positions.

With this release exposing file, block and object with MinIO, TrueNAS 12 sets a standard in open source unified storage.

Security is also considered by the engineering team with dataset encryption, VPN tunneling, support of 3rd party key managers, TrueCommand management with integrated role based access control and self encrypted disks.

The M60 offers a rich set of features in 4U with NVDIMM, SSD and HDD even if in such chassis, 24 HDDs is a pretty small number.

The firm promotes a freedom of choice in storage being aligned with various SOHO, SMB and enterprises needs with Mini, X- and M- series powered by one open source storage OS coupling FreeBSD and OpenZFS among others.

Strong product line with small systems to scale-up ones all controlled via TrueCommand. Now we expect iXsystems to address highly scalable system with a scale-out model. It has everything - team, expertise and installed base - to dig into this direction.

To confirm this evolution, the company pre-announces TrueNAS Scale to be officially released in 4Q20. This is a key evolution that invites the company in the scale-out world shaking potentially market positions fueled by commercial offerings.

iXsystems gains visibility on the market with a growing faithful ecosystem with innovation and rapid market footprint growth.

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March 12, 2020 | Press Release