 Time here for more systems and TrueNAS scale beta has been released. I've talked in the past about TrueNAS scale It is basically a Reinvention as I would put it of the TrueNAS system based on Debian So originally TrueNAS would go back originally. I guess we'd say FreeNAS FreeNAS became TrueNAS, but it's always been based on BSD The departure over to Linux isn't exactly a departure and I know people think it's like they're switching the project It is a project that will run alongside TrueNAS. They Modulized as they would put it the middleware So you take the interface that you're used to and you put a different operating system behind it But it still controls on the front end. You're sharing your NFS SMB and all the functionality on top of ZFS This is a pretty big undertaking because well when you spend a lot of time writing code for BSD It doesn't just natively flip a switch and go to Linux But the advantage of doing this is of course we have access to Docker and Lots of better hardware support and of course a few other features that we'll talk about as we go through this But before we dive into the details if you like to learn more about me or my company head over to laurance systems comm If you like to hire short project There's a hires button at the top if you like to hire for storage consulting That's the place to do it if you want to support this channel in other ways There's affiliate links down below to get your deals and discounts on products and services We talk about on this channel No, as usual, I'll be leaving links to all the things I talk about down below But right here is the forum post by SVP of engineering Chris Moore was a really talented developer here And he is pleased to announce the 2106 beta of true NAS scale has been released with this beta We kicked off a pre-release testing cycles to prepare for release Version coming in the coming months now I say it that way because I'm not gonna go absolutely in depth on this and tell you exactly how to like fully Get started with it. I want to just cover the basics There's kind of a prerequisite here that you're familiar with the true NAS core system You're already running it, but I will at least cover, you know some of the details and highlights here I will also leave a link to this where it, you know scale stands for scale out ZFS capacity and performance Converge compute and store active active reliability Linux container and virtualization And this is the real big one right there the container system in The BSD world is well Let's just say not as popular as Docker is in the Linux world This is one of the reasons people are really excited about this releases be able to pull Docker images on there And I really want to get people out there Testing this and that's by the way, this is not for production This is for production for people like me who don't mind beta testing on their own stuff But this is clearly not something I'm gonna be rolling out to clients But I know a lot of you are enthusiasts like I am and excited about you know Helping out with the development of this net means finding the edge cases and your configurations and where those bugs may lie So we can go back to the forums over at true NAS and make sure we report those bugs so they can get fixed But I'll leave links all this It's not the little details about some of the things in there, but obviously the scale out ZFS I'm not gonna cover that but it's a pretty cool feature. It's going to be underlying in this It's still pretty new. They're gonna be using cluster FS Coming in a future video, I'll dive into that, but let's first take a look at this the installer which really Not too much to talk about we'll start the true NAS installer But it doesn't look substantially different than the true NAS core installer So this is the scale beta is gonna take a second. Well, thanks. And here's the true NAS 2106 beta 1 council setup. It's pretty much what you're used to if you've installed true NAS at all So there's really not too much here. Go ahead and proceed with installation Set a password whoop So something simple and it runs through the install process I'm not actually for this rest of this demo. We're not gonna be running a virtualized install I just did this to make this easy to display I actually have real hardware running and not great hardware, but hardware nonetheless that we have Running for this that we're gonna do the demo on now all I did was run through the installer and install this But I have these drives as in the dataset drives that are attached to this Previously running true NAS core and alls I did was go into true NAS core to system general and Save the config nothing special here now before I did that of course I had set up some shares set up the permissions and made sure it worked I had an NFS share. I had some replication tasks I had an SMB share and I also had some snapshot test So all that functionality I'd set up under true NAS core then I went and just Exported the config now we have this right here running beta and we go over here to storage No pool in here now I can create a pool or import a pool, but I could create shares But as I said, I created them in true NAS core So one of the things I wanted to do was test the import feature now Of course because the containerization part of this is different You're not gonna be able to import your jails from true NAS core into Docker containers There's no easy way to just switch those they're built on different Container technologies. Therefore, they're not going to just drop right in there There's gonna be a pretty manual process for doing any of that backing up configurations and such of the actual Things running in your jails and transporting them over and rebuilding them from an operating system level and then Reconfiguring them as in plex, but don't worry. They have a lot of Docker options in here We'll cover that a little bit later in a video First thing I want to do though is go over here and just point out that the layout is a lot different So even though it's similar like here's jails plug-in services. Sharing's a little pull-down They did there's a little bit different So we have data protection is actually where a lot of the things that you would see under tasks and like your replication and scrub tasks, they just kind of moved them here So it is a little bit of a layout change, but it's still pretty navigable and it's you're not too lost if you're familiar with the true NAS platform and Finding things wasn't that hard shares are under shares And as I said, there's none right now, but let's go here to system settings and we're going to general Managed configuration we're gonna upload a file choose file This right here true NAS 12.04 is just a standard true NAS 12.0 u4 backup I did nothing special made sure I exported keys and things like that. So, you know all the configuration is in there We're gonna open we're gonna upload it's gonna upload a config It's gonna reboot and we'll skip ahead so you don't have to wait take some minutes to reboot and Then we'll have all of our shares back We'll have our pool imported with its encryption keys and the NFS shares and the replication tasks and all those and we'll show those working All right, the system's rebooted. We'll go ahead and log back in and Look at storage It's gonna take a second to think and then we we go There is the pool that we created when I was in there now one thing to note is as I said I can't get any of the systems to bring over from the jails, but the shares are all working. So we go here to shares Here's our Windows SMB shares Running Unix NFS shares and let's go ahead and attach to one of them But the username and password that I created in core copies over that too. I think that's the right one Yeah, perfect, and there's my share with a bunch of random files inside of here And let's go ahead and look at the storage and the snapshots And even all the snapshots are imported. So there's quite a few of them. Here's why it paused on that I have a snapshot job of running. I think every minute. So let's go ahead and look at data protection Oh, yeah, there we go every hour in an hour every minute in a few seconds So each one of these is keeping all these extra snapshots, but all those jobs came over Here's a replication desk that is running successfully so we can go ahead and kick it off and continue I believe it'll give me a message in a second that it should complete if not it'll wait for another snapshot But the important part is the task came over that only leaves us figuring out what to do with the application So we go over here to apps and it says what pool do you want to put them on? And we'll put them in the gross public pool that we created here And it'll go ahead and kick off and start the job now This does pause a lot because this is just a slower atom hardware We're doing some of the testing with but I will be moving some of my other systems that we have here over to churnas scale at least a couple of times I want to do some testing and Really, you know, give this a thorough once over because there's a There's the using it in the lab environment like a MRI test a few things and see that a few shares work But then there's the hey, how does it hold up when I have virtual machines running either within it or Running as a storage target and I want to set that up And I have not taken the time to really dive into it like that Partly because I'm using this little hardware I just get aggravated with setting it up when I wait for things like this But through the magic of video editing will jump ahead to when this is done configuring successfully configured And we can see if there's any installed applications. I think I'd actually put one on there before you can switch back and forth Between true nas scale and true nas core matter of fact it started up one thing I had on here before But you will have problems if you do this and that's what this little notice is over here New ZFS version feature flags are available for this gross public pool Now upgrading pools is a one-time process that can prevent rolling systems back to earlier true nas versions as recommended You read the true nas release notes and confirm the new ZFS feature flags before upgrading now No problem. We're going to an upgrades I'm not going to go back on this particular system But that's something you need to consider if you're going to test this out make sure things work and you can go back You can switch back to that true nas core system as long as you don't upgrade the ZFS features We're gonna head and do that right now run upgrade the pool because there's no going back And there's really nothing important on there. So we'll go ahead and it continue successfully upgraded the gross public pool awesome and Yeah, that's it now. It's no going back. We are now using true nas scale on the system Of course, this is just a lab system for this video. So not a big deal there but overall I found the system to be Stable we actually and they've been deleted because we rebuilt the system a couple times We built a Windows VM in here. We built the Linux VM. Both of them seem to work As I do some more testing I'll do some future videos on that as far as the apps go the available applications list is kind of small But they have the ability here to launch Docker images and pull from Docker So future videos I'll do one that as I kind of get the hang of that system so I can prepare create a proper tutorial for it The other interesting thing is what Chris more mentioned right here and improve application selection including support for third-party repository such as true charts and This is really neat. This is the ability to add more Applications to the system to automatically install so you want to manage catalogs and they have an entire catalog manager here We're going to be able to go through and add more Applications, this is something once again, I'll do a future video on but it's you know beta We played a little bit with it and got some of the other applications in there to install and I find it quirky But I think it's mostly because I don't know what I'm doing That's I'll just be very honest with it and until I really understand it Well, I don't want to do a tutorial on it where I don't give all the right answers now One thing I'll admit that just feels weird, but I really like and let's see if it breaks something is the fact we have apt get Updates it's not just based on Linux. Of course is based on Debian so we can apt-get update And I'm not sure if they're supposed to do this, but hey, why not it's got the Ability to do it so let's do it apt-get upgrade and it allows us to update things as we go This is going to be interesting seeing how this plays out in a big picture But I do just kind of get excited the fact that this is built on Linux Which is much more familiar to me in BSD but for some final thoughts on this I do not think to BSD version TrueNAS core is going anywhere anytime soon I think we'll see it for years to come I believe both code bases will be maintained for a long time And it's because the tried and true TrueNAS core is a very stable platform and for a lot of especially the Commercial clients that we have sold these two They are expecting something to have at least a you know Maybe a five-year life cycle and not be turned off and not have any crashes and yes TrueNAS core is a very dependable system for that There are new bells and features and whistles and all the things we get with this is going to be awesome I'm going to be excited with many of you playing with this and you know I like the cutting-edge stuff which eventually will turn into that stable Platform that we'll be installing but it's going to be a long time for those you wondering if this is the end of TrueNAS core And not really you're going to keep developing both products side by side But obviously there's plenty of excitement we have especially under the Docker images and this has been one of the hangups of you know People who want to build everything into their virtual machine Stack and have their storage server all be in one place I think TrueNAS scale is going to do a good job of that with the KVM and some of the apps on there Especially for the homelab users. I think this is going to be a Real slam dunk so to speak in terms of a lot of adoption in the homelabs because well putting it all in one place and Consulting even a one server. It's all based on Linux is going to be some happy stuff for sure but this is Tom Lawrence and See you guys in the forums and leave some comments below But if you decide to try this don't don't report beta problems to me, please note They have an entire place to report those I see that because sometimes people say hey, I'm having I'm seeing this problem Can you people have messaged me like on Twitter and say hey, can you let people know about this problem? I'm like let the developers know I am not the developer. I'm just an enthusiast User who also will be reporting problems as I found them to the proper channels So we can get bugs fixed and overall make the product better babies last words are I wonder if this will break that? Well, I ran app get update it does boot but it no longer goes into the system anymore So we're gonna have to probably switch back to the core on this lab or just reload scale But it's uh, it's broke But those of you wondering what the hardware looks like sometimes lab environments are not pretty but you know They get the videos done But so don't have to get update it unless you know what you're doing clearly. 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