Are you considering upgrading TrueNAS Core to 13.3 to Move To Scale? In this video, I dive into the latest TrueNAS Core 13.3 release and whether it’s time to switch.
TrueNAS 13.3 Release Notes
How to Migrate From Core To Scale
Electric Eel Announcements
The graying open source community needs fresh blood
Chapters
00:00 TrueNAS Core 13.3 Released
00:22 The Ad
01:16 Release Notes
02:13 When or If You Should Upgrade
03:16 Why is Core No Longer Getting Features?
04:57 Is Scale Stable?
Tom… so just curious… you mentioned that the tech community needs devs… you prob know at this point I’m not a dev, but I’m wondering… what is happening at ix systems w/ the bsd devs? do they magically become linux devs as ix moves more and more to linux based scale?
They did some FreeBSD dev work, but IXSystems spends much more time committing upstream to ZFS and the core functions of TrueNAS. I am not sure how many FreeBSD only devs they had.
Is the coming death of Core any kind of official statement from iXsystems, or are you just reading the writing on the wall? I too am reading said writing and I’m sad because I really like FreeBSD as a base OS. It’s always felt more coherent out of the box than any linux distro.
I think I can almost answer my own question here. It seems that iXsystems TrueNAS Enterprise is now Scale-based instead of Core-based like it was a was a few years ago. Maybe not an official statement, but it’s basically a mural on the side of a building.
Used the manual upgrade method to migrate one of my secondary backup systems from TrueNAS-13.3-RELEASE to Dragonfish-24.04.2
Initially it did not seem to work (not responding to pings nor log into web interface), so I connected a monitor and KB. It rebooted a couple of times, but everything seems to be working. It even migrated my LACP bonded interface.
Manually removed iocage data set and Bhyve VM’s. I’ve long since moved to Proxmox
I’ll kick the tires for awhile before migrating my primary backup system.
Maybe the Netgate April Fool’s post was to gauge reaction from customers, and they too will eventually migrate to Linux.
PF is currently very closely tied to BSD, that will be very difficult to pull off. They extracted OpenZFS though, so anything can be done with time and money.
Look, some of us have predicted the move from Core to SCALE for a while. It’s all about feature parity and feature expansion, as well as just OS development. BSD isn’t getting the development that it once had, Linux still is. Sooner or later, there will be an official move to Scale. Things age out and get replaced by something newer and more flexible, so it will be with Truenas.
This prediction happened back with 12, I’m surprised it made it this far down the road, but I don’t think everything is fully at parity yet. But when it is…
That said, I do have one Scale install in my lab, I really don’t notice any differences compared to my Core installs. I’m not terribly worried about the change, really not worried at all.
I actually just upgraded our secondary backup server at work to Scale and I’m hard pressed to find the missing features. Not as many reporting items I thought, but if you go into Netdata there’s actually a ton more. Having some trouble with the NFS share I was using with VMware, but NFS has always been a bit wonky I feel.
I’m going to miss a bunch of BSD commands I like such as systat and the BSD version of top that had ARC stats built in. The web interface is different, which I hate only because I need to find things again, but I’ll live. On the improvement side, VMs with passthrough work way better right out of the box. I was having issues with Bhyve VMs not actually restarting when I would attached a physical network interface. KVM has no issues and just works as I’d expect it to. Scale might even support SR-IOV with my I350 NIC, Core just didn’t have drivers for it.
I think it might be time to move my home server to Scale and get comfortable with it before the Eel comes out.
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