iXsystems entry-level NAS goes hyper-converged with TrueNAS Scale
Summary
iXsystems uses open source operating systems and commodity hardware, delivering hyper-converged products that can be half the price of those from Dell EMC or HPE. “TrueNAS Scale brings the ability to run applications in the form of KVM virtual machines or in Kubernetes containers,” said iXsystems director general Brett Davis in an interview with Computer Weekly sister publication LeMagIT. Meanwhile, in New York, one bank customer has replaced its Pure Storage FlashBlade NAS with TrueNAS M60 arrays because it offers 20PB of capacity for half the cost. “We have gained the ability to run virtual machines under the KVM hypervisor and to automatically group OpenZFS volumes in a global pool using GlusterFS as a distributed file system,” said Davis. iXsystems envisages following the model of Nutanix, in which it provides the system software and third-party suppliers sell products based on their hardware selection.