Education
Public or private educational institutions are under constant pressure to maximize their budgets and achieve more with less.
Deployed in schools and universities of all sizes around the world, TrueNAS is a trusted partner in providing students, educators and researchers with secure and reliable storage solutions while staying within budget.
Each system comes with an all-inclusive license with no hidden costs for enabling features like compression or snapshots. TrueNAS Unified Storage supports block, file and object protocols and is available in all-flash or hybrid configurations.
Easy to deploy
Manage and administer your TrueNAS systems using a modern and intuitive web user interface. TrueNAS integrates easily with existing Windows, macOS and Linux environments, providing data storage and file sharing capabilities through block interfaces (iSCSI or FC) or file interfaces (SMB, NFS or S3 API). Easily deploy and manage virtual environments using vCenter and TrueCommand. Whether you need a single system for a small school or a distributed solution to support research across multiple sites, there is an ideal TrueNAS solution for you.
Cost-effective scaling
A single TrueNAS system can accommodate over 1200 high-capacity drives. Expand a single system from a few terabytes to tens of petabytes without purchasing additional controllers, expansion licenses, or exorbitant support contracts. TrueNAS lets you scale compute, storage, and performance independently, so you never have to buy more than you need. Smaller labs can use TrueNAS-certified or mini systems to stay on budget and integrate seamlessly into a TrueNAS-based environment reserved for critical data and workloads.
Reliable backups
TrueNAS provides all the essential tools you need to effectively manage and store your data. Redundancy is provided at the system level with high availability (HA) configurations, and RAID-Z provides efficient data redundancy to protect against drive failures. Built-in integrity checks protect your data from corruption. Unlimited snapshots and replications make it easy to back up and restore data to recover after a disaster. Volume-level encryption and self-encrypting drives provide secure protection against unauthorized physical access.
Optimized Procurement
Public education institutions can purchase TrueNAS through GSA Schedule 70 to simplify the purchasing process and ensure compliance while getting the best value for any budget. GSA-approved products offer a streamlined process and pre-negotiated pricing with government agencies to shorten the purchasing cycle by up to 50%!
Share and secure data across campus
Consolidate individual file servers into a single, high-performance platform that meets your needs. TrueNAS supports block, file and object storage in all standard file protocols, including SMBv1/v2/v3, AFP, NFSv3/v4, S3 API and iSCSI. The OpenZFS file system offers bit-rot protection and copy-on-write to ensure data integrity from creation to deletion. Expand your storage capacity even further with built-in ZFS data optimization features such as compression and deduplication. TrueNAS integrates with major backup software providers such as Asigra, Veeam, CommVault or Nakivo. Integration via Active Directory, LDAP and Kerberos is also included.
Virtualization and Private Clouds
TrueNAS supports all major hypervisors and virtual environments, including Citrix, VMware, and OpenStack. With network speeds up to 100GbE, TrueNAS easily integrates into virtualization clusters to manage datastores over iSCSI or Fibre Channel and share files using SMB or NFS. A single TrueNAS all-flash system can deliver sub-millisecond performance and support over 5,000 VMs! The same TrueNAS system can support virtualization and non-virtualized workloads simultaneously. New virtual environments can be quickly deployed and easily managed through vCenter and TrueCommand.
Protect access to academic data
Ensure up to 99.999% uptime with a TrueNAS high-availability system. Dual controllers provide top-to-bottom redundancy of all active components and are arranged in an active standby array to minimize failover times and simplify upgrades. If a failover occurs, all network services are automatically started on the second controller and users still have access to their data. In the unlikely event that a system becomes corrupted or a ransomware attack occurs, built-in features like snapshots and replication make it easy to recover data. TrueNAS also natively supports cloud sync with popular services like Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, and many more.
Multi-System Management
Take command with TrueCommand ™
TrueCommand is a ZFS-enabled platform that enables teams to manage one or more NAS systems while improving system security and reliability.
– NAS Fleet Dashboard
– Single sign-on for all NAS devices
– Role-based access control (RBAC)
– Custom alerts and reports
– Fast fault management and diagnostics
– Real-time data collection and analysis
