 Time here for more systems. It is August of 2022 and TrueNAS Core 13U2 has been released, so has TrueNAS Scale 22.02.3. The dev teams at TrueNAS have been quite busy. This is a lot maintaining two of these, but they seem to be doing a good job of it, closing bugs, adding features, keeping the roadmap going forward for both products. I know a lot of people thought with the introduction of Scale, TrueNAS Core was going away. Well, it doesn't appear to be, and I didn't expect it to be. Kind of the little background on that is we are a TrueNAS reseller and IAC systems reseller of their hardware, and that hardware comes with support contracts. So support contracts are for multiple years that guarantees that the money that comes in these support contracts that are from selling your hardware that goes into the development of the free and open source TrueNAS product line will be updated both for core and scale. That's kind of the business model and how all this works. Don't worry, you don't have to buy a system for either one of these. There's no license fees. This is still open source and free, which was also a concern when people seen some of the name changes. That being said, we're going to talk about some of the changes in TrueNAS Core 13 and TrueNAS Scale 22.02.3. But before we dive into the details of the video, let's first. Are you an individual or company looking for support on a network engineering, storage, or virtualization project? Is your company or internal IT team looking for someone to proactively monitor your system security or offer strategic guidance to keep your IT systems operating smoothly? Not only would we love to help consulting your project, we also offer fully managed or co-managed IT service plans for businesses in need of IT administration or IT teams in need of additional support. With our expert install team, we can also assist you with all of your structure, cabling, and Wi-Fi planning projects. 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On that note, I do not have a TrueNAS Scale system updated to this version because playing around with some of the things in TrueNAS Scale, I was able to break a few things. So I have to reload that particular system, but I'm going to do a upcoming video kind of getting started with TrueNAS Scale because it's gotten a lot better than it was when I first initially played with it. Performance issues aside, the ability to have such a large catalog of apps is actually really cool and, you know, popular use case for this. So I'll be diving into that in the future. But for now, the list here, though, of improvements, there's a handful of little things, but they're not groundbreaking. They did not address yet that I can tell any of the performance issues I had brought up previously with it, but the performance issues may not be that big of a deal to you and your use case, especially if you're just looking at a lot of the app usage on there. When it comes to the bug list, though, wow, there is just a lot. Now, one particular thing in this list is this right here. Snapshots not deleted after specified lifetime expires. There are conditions that will cause this. I've had a few people comment on this. It doesn't seem to do it from a fresh load, but if there's certain conditions met, and they're noted in the bug there, that will cause a system to fill up. And I had a few people, I think it was a couple forum posts I had seen and people tagging me that said this was one of the problems where it will just kind of keep running away with the snapshots and not properly deleting them. But that has been fixed. That's one of them that stood out, but there's a lot of other little details in here that are, well, quite important. So they spent a lot of time basically debugging this version. So I'm ready to start with it again. I'm going to reload the system that I broke before. I kind of just have it set aside, but I'll be doing it, like I said, a deeper dive on that soon. Now for two days, core 13, you too. Now this is their software release cycle. And I want to point out you one was suitable for business use, release, general use, just when it hits this right here and says release, but you two plus essentially, we're at you two and all the updates beyond larger systems suitable for higher uptime deployments. And they have some of their release schedules, obviously the next one is going to be you three. I have been testing this internally, I updated some of our systems. Well, it just came out today, August 30th of 2022. So the testing I've done so far has been limited, but has gone well. Now, one thing to note here is this right here, due to a bug upstream network driver causing data corruption of ice, because he's sharing two and a half gig real card nicks are unsupported and 13 you too. Now I think this is an important thing. Free BSD and real tech have not always been the best of friends. I generally try to avoid both Broadcom and real tech cards on doing builds. They just seem to be problematic. The Intel and Melanox cards I've just had, well, way better luck with I guess you could say because it is certainly unlucky having a two and a half gig card that you're hoping to handle ice because he caused ice because he corruption, not the biggest fan of two and a half gig for the price, the 10 gigs aren't substantially more, but you got to do what you got to do with the devices you have. But I would just go 10 gig if I was going to set up ice because he anyways, and I generally as I said, avoid real tech and that goes the same for PF sense being built on BSD as well. There are some over the years bugs that have come up in some of the real tech drivers with BSD nature of things scale being on Linux probably has better driver support for it. I didn't see any particular notes about real tech cards in there. Coming down here to what did they change? Well, the one thing about your next core is it's very stable. It is very business oriented in terms of just being a dedicated storage server. So there's not a major amount of improvements on here. These are all small incremental improvements, which is what people want in their storage target when they're using it for let's say a hypervisor or some intense database sharing application where you're just using it for storage, not loading applications. So there's not a lot of changes that come in here, but they did do some updates to the community plugins to get them to the latest version. So they're pulling off of BSD 13. There's a lot of little bugs that are in here. Obviously the big scary one if you're using real tech would be iSCSI data corruption with real tech. So there's clearly a condition there that is very problematic, but everything else in here pretty straightforward, just a lot of little things to be fixed in here. Now the one thing that is also in here is an update to next cloud. Next cloud is probably one of the better applications that do still have good support in running it inside of IOCage, but I did notice this in a notes net cloud issue could not be reproduced recommend users migrating to scale which provides a better experience when running applications. I thought it was interesting that they put that in here and it's kind of signaling that there's not the best maintenance on some of the IOCage packages. So that is something to keep into consideration. As I said at the beginning, TrueNet scale is going to be way more application centric and better supported. And to see this kind of officially inter documentation, if you're looking for a better experience because you're having some of the problems on there, then yes, you may want to look at using scale. Now seeing that did not stop me from well being curious and seeing if it would install. So here is my TrueNash 13 U2. We're going to go over here to the plugins. And I have a next cloud instance that I set up just today, just built this, got it configured. And it works perfectly fine. Well, works perfectly fine unless your goal is to use the next cloud office combined with the collaborate online built in code server. This is designed only to work in a Linux environment and not a BSD jail. So while next cloud does work and install there is at least this particular feature, maybe others, but this one I know is a popular one that will not work if you use this on TrueNash core. And of course, this brings us back to the question of which platform do you go with TrueNash scale or TrueNash core? TrueNash scale, way better application support, more diverse application support, more up to date applications. TrueNash core, well, it's the dependable BSD system that I use for a lot of enterprise storage solutions that just don't need applications. This is a storage target device such as a target for your virtualization, a target for a NAS where you have many people sharing files off of it, but no other applications directly running on it. So ultimately, those are, you know, the diversions we're going to see in these two different products where one is really focused on that storage performance and that's your core and it's been around for a while. But hey, I'm all for TrueNash scale and the application support because there's a lot of efficiency to be gained by having, well, everything run is close to your storage as possible. So as that platform progresses and TrueNash scale gets it to be a more mature product, it can be a good choice to, you know, consolidate everything and have all those fancy Docker things running on that links to the different notes that I talked about down below. Links to my tutorials on TrueNash and permissions and all the other questions that people frequently ask. 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