 Tom here from Orange Systems and Chunas Scale 22.12.3 was released on June 13th of 2023 And of course immediately I updated all my systems I had four of them specifically that I wanted to test before I roll this out to any production clients we have and today is June 20th of 2023 and I haven't had any issues Well, I had one minor hiccup that I'll cover But it's really not anything that I can reproduce because well one system kind of didn't work But I don't know why and all I had to do is reboot it and then it did so outside of that really minor problem Which people have mentioned before basically the Kubernetes side did not start But I didn't even dig into error messages because all I did was restart the system again and it worked So I'm gonna call that problem solved moving on to the change log itself There are some significant changes. They made there's some very welcome new features It's nice to see all this progress coming along So let's jump right over the change log and talk about what changed and what some of those things that are being deprecated are because I really Wanted to talk about that because I was really confused and I hopefully will not confuse any of you talking about this Because I think it's a good move deprecating some of these features But before we get to any of that I want to really look at this highlighted note right here an issue was discovered with a virtualization post-release when virtual machines with PCI password deployed deploying upgrading 22.12.3 for details see resolution Do not upgrade if you need PCI pass through. There's a bug report on this. They're aware. They're working on a resolution for this I'm not using PCI pass through so this did not affect me in any way and any of the systems that it upgraded But just in case you have that use case start there now I was actually screw up to talk about what's new new because they deprecated so new applications for deprecation I think they could have just worded it deprecated, but it's newly deprecated. So we'll go with that Dynamic DNS TFTP open VPN web dev our sync Damon This the part that was confusing to me is when I seen that they were deprecating our sync They're getting rid of the menus for our sync and I don't use them all that often So it's not too big of a deal But if you're using our sync modules and they're part of your workflow those are going away, but they're not getting rid of our sync You'll still be able to do our sync over SSH. They're still leaving our sync in the system It's just that you're going to use it over SSH That's generally not how you use the modules in there and there was always well The modules were a less secure way to do it if you're doing on your own network Probably not a big deal, but now you'll just have our sync over SSH as a methodology in order to do our sync Which is popular for usually migrating from a NAS system That's not true NAS over to true NAS as far as systems that are both based on true NAS or both based on ZFS You're gonna want to use ZFS send or true NAS calls it replication Which is using ZFS send on the back end. That's the best way to copy files over now the s3 and min I o That wasn't too surprising They were always a little bit behind when you're using it as a service and the ideal way to do it is now with their Application packages now I don't use this too often anytime. We've used s3 min I o we generally build it on a native Linux system Not bolted into the true NAS system partly because it was an older version But I'll have to explore it. Maybe at some point in the future. I'll dig into setting up that as one of the applications within there But nonetheless, it's not Making a lot of sense to keep it inside of true NAS when you can get a newer version Especially when there's a lot of updates and a lot of new features changing because by the way check out min I o It's just a really cool product Multi-channel capabilities added to the SMB configuration form We'll talk about that in a second here But this is a long-awaited and at some point time We'll do a video out in the future where people who have pretty high-end systems and want to be able to Utilize the SMB configuration in order to do multi-channel to get more performance more speed. That's definitely very welcome The other updates remote Mordain latest kernel. That's great updated Samba till 4.17.8. Hey, that's good, too Now one more thing I want to focus in here is this release fixes a bug with data set encryption where it was possible to create an encrypted storage pool or data set and Unencrypted data sets within that pool or data set beginning with 22.12.3 It is no longer possible to create an unencrypted data set when the storage pool or data set is created with encryption Active data sets created in spanner will not be affected by this fix The if the original intention was for the data set to be encrypted please migrate data from the unencrypted data set to a new encrypted data set now this one very directly affects me and There's a double reason for this and let's talk about that and it's a topic I've talked about before in the true NAS forums and this is me talking about the latest version that this issue still persists Essentially, there is a problem I ran into where I prefer to encrypt everything. That's kind of my default behavior Why not encrypt everything until I moved over to true NAS scale and found that there appears to be kind of a bug and That bug essentially is when you have encrypted data sets it seems to go to a single threaded mode for reading data off there and specifically this true NAS scale system that I have here is where my video editing happens and single core on a Intel atom is not that good in terms of stream performance So even though I have a 10 gig connection I have SSDs pulling the encrypted files is too slow once they're cached They're quite fast and there's not a problem now They encode as in when I write to the drive has no problem using all the cores and once you've Cached it in arc. There's no problem using all the cores But this is kind of a weird bug that the simple solution was to simply not have an encrypted So if you're using a situation like this So you've encrypted but then have nested data sets that are unencrypted as I did and also it was Migrate all my data to an unencrypted data set you can't create those anymore But now I have to rebuild this whole data set and it's not too big of a deal So I'm going to be migrating all the data over Reloading this system and cleanly building them without encryption And then I'll just encrypt the things as needed But then leave this unencrypted, which I don't really care because my videos can be unencrypted They all end up on YouTube anyways So it's kind of a workaround But I want people to be aware that this is a migration if you have a situation like I do if you are using a Faster system you're just probably not going to notice this problem We aren't seeing this at all with one of my faster systems because it's so fast that the decoding In the processor isn't the slowdown for the data. So this is just something to keep in mind and consider Now jumping back over here to the true nest system itself We're going to go over here to our system settings and we want to look at our services And we want to go down here to configure SMB and we'll come to advanced This is where we now have the multi-channel option SMB multi-channel allows servers to use multiple network connections Simultaneously by combining the bandwidth of several network interface cards for better performance SMB multi-channel does not function if you combine next into a lag read more in their docs This will be a separate tutorial where I break down what SMB multi-channel is I've seen you just Google it and find out but I'll talk about setting it up There's gonna be certain ways you're gonna have to do that and I'll do some testing on it As far as the other things in here, you will get the notices when you boot up and I've already cleared them So I can't show them I didn't feel like looking at a red notice for a while, but under the services things like our sink which I have turned off I believe if I turn it on maybe it'll generate that notice again. So let me turn on our sink Say here's the deprecation notice that I'm gonna get The following act of service is deprecated our sink this service is scheduled for removal any future version of scale before upgrading Please check. So there's your notice right there That's all I have for true NAS scale Overall, I'm gonna say it's another good update. The product has really matured quite a bit It doesn't seem to have as much quirkiness as it did before even that problem I mentioned where the apps weren't there on one system rebooting it fixed it I've seen people posting the forums saying the same thing that at the apps aren't there after an update Just restart it and then they show back up But every subsequent restart I've done afterwards which I did several just to see if I can repeat the problem Every time the applications have shown up started up and worked perfectly fine And the testing I've done it included the little zima board that I've been working with and doing some testing with true NAS scale I'm almost done with that review and that updated versions has been running True NAS scale from the old version to the new version and running applications on it without any problems at all That's actually gone really smooth And even though it's not as fast some of the other systems I have I'm still impressed with how fast it did the updates. So overall I'm gonna say thumbs up for this update for those that always love to ask about true NAS core Has it been forgotten? Has it been abandoned? No, it has not And there's a recent update to it I just didn't do a video about it because there's not any significant changes in terms of like Changes changes like new features being added There's just lots of bug fixes going on because they're not sunsetting it, but they're really stabilized it It's not where there's a lot of focus on innovation Like there is with the scale out system because they've already built a really solid reliable that we still support and sell Platform which is true NAS core. It's still one of our go-to systems for a lot of high-end enterprise equipment We install where we've built petabytes of servers With targets for VMs or other workloads such as especially a lot in the movie industry lately So we still use a lot of true NAS core because it's been proven and well Depended upon so I wouldn't say that product's going away anytime soon But you're also not going to see Brand new hey, we added and bolted on kubernetes to bsd or anything crazy Because that doesn't really work that way. That's not where that's going scale out is a little bit different application So it's not dead. It's still going and there's still plenty of good support out there for it It's just a very stable and predictable environment Which means people aren't looking to rock the boat with a lot of innovation As always before you do an update remember a raid is not a backup if you need a shirt to remind you of that There's a swag store link down below Like and subscribe if you want to see more content from the channel Leave your comments and questions down below or head on to my forums for a more in-depth discussion and thanks