iXsystems TrueNAS M50
Powerful and Scalable Enterprise Storage with Open Source Economics

Enterprise-Grade Open Storage

Built to maximize storage capacity, performance, and uptime, the M-Series is the TrueNAS® flagship line of appliances designed with the flexibility to address an array of demanding storage requirements and adapt as needs change over time. With high-availability options and advanced data management tools, the TrueNAS M-Series safeguards data for mission-critical operations where downtime is not an option.

Performance & Scale without Compromise

All-flash or hybrid disk and flash? The M-Series can be both. Combining vast system RAM, NVDIMM, and NVMe flash as layered cache provides industry-leading read and write efficiency and optimizes the performance of the primary storage media. Flash pools are supercharged, and high-density disk pools deliver low latency flash performance at disk capacity and cost. Fusion Pools, comprised of both disk and flash together, deliver the best of both worlds. With up to four 100Gb/s network ports per controller, the TrueNAS M-Series is designed to move terabytes at maximum speed.

Storage You Can Rely On

The TrueNAS M-Series offers unmatched data reliability in both software and hardware. The OpenZFS file system is the last word in data protection with copy-on-write and bit-rot detection ensuring the integrity of your data from write to read. Dual controllers and high- availability options ensure over 99.999% uptime to maintain business operations and keep applications running around the clock.

Hardware Management: Simplified.

Servicing an M-Series system is made easy by the modular, tool-less hardware design. Additional integrated enclosure management capabilities save time and effort by providing graphical visualization of the system in the UI, making it easy to monitor the state of your system from a single screen. If performance or capacity needs change over time, it’s as simple as a non-disruptive upgrade to higher-end M-Series controllers.

Scale Up or “SCALE” Out

Begin building the foundation of your scale-out, hyper-converged virtualization infrastructure with SCALE or use Enterprise for high-performance, ultra-reliable local HA storage. Expand to over 20 PB on a single M60 head unit with support for up to 12 expansion shelves, or use TrueNAS SCALE to cluster over 100 systems together for massive capacity and performance.

Professional White-Glove Support

In the unlikely event that a failure does happen, you can rest easy knowing that all TrueNAS M-Series systems are fully backed by our US-based professional support team. Whether you need 24×365 support or on-site repair, flexible Bronze, Silver, and Gold support options are available to help you meet your goals.

Performance & Scale Without Compromise

Hybrid or AllFlash Array? With TrueNAS, you can have both. TrueNAS M-Series leverages industry-leading cache along with open source ZFS by merging DRAM, non-volatile memory (TrueCache NVDIMM), and flash (NVMe/SSD) with highdensity disks to deliver low latency flash performance at disk capacity and cost. With up to four 100 Gb/s network ports per controller, the TrueNAS M-Series is designed to move terabytes at maximum speed.

Self-Healing Data Protection

Data integrity is the name of the game, and TrueNAS leaves nothing to chance. In-flight data corruption is automatically detected and repaired before it ever reaches disk. Bit rot and data decay are identified and scrubbed clean. With TrueNAS, your data is always pristine.

Intelligent Storage Optimization

TrueNAS M-Series maximizes storage efficiency by offering compression, space-efficient snapshots, clones, and thin provisioning at no extra cost. TrueNAS Adaptive Compression (TAC) efficiently boosts performance while maximizing capacity. TAC intelligently adjusts its compression ratio without wasting system resources. Before data is stored, TrueNAS dynamically detects and compresses what it can and skips any data too inefficient to be worthwhile.

Unlimited Snapshots & Replication

Most storage appliances require additional licenses for advanced features — but not TrueNAS. Gain unlimited file version retention, restoration, and replication. Data is automatically protected against unintentional alteration, such as from ransomware or malware, with minimal storage consumption. Data can be replicated locally, remotely, or to the cloud for backups or disaster recovery. TrueNAS snapshots can also be coordinated with VMware snapshots. With TrueNAS, any data protection or disaster recovery policy is simple to implement and maintain.

TrueCache

TrueNAS M40, M50, and M60 come equipped with TrueCache NVDIMM; the fastest, most reliable, and low latency Write Cache available. TrueCache NVDIMM stores incoming data prior to it being written to the ZFS pool with its data protection. On High availability systems, each write is stored on the TrueCache NVDIMM of the active controller, then mirrored to the TrueCache NVDIMM of the standby controller. In the event of power failure or loss, TrueCache NVDIMM saves the contents of DRAM to its flash devices.

Available Storage Media

• Enterprise Nearline Hard Drives 7200 RPM SAS3:
  • Available from 4 TB to 22 TB
  • SED, FIPS 140-2 options
• Enterprise SSDs:
  • SAS3: from 1.92 TB to 15.3 TB
  • RI, SED, FIPS 140-2 options
• NVMe SSDs:
  • From 1.6 TB to 3.2 TB

Power Management

• Dual redundant, hot-swappable, high-efficiency (80%+) power supplies
• Auto-switching 100-240V 50/60Hz input power on TrueNAS M30/M40/M50
• High-line 200-240V 50/60Hz input power on TrueNAS M60
• IPMI Remote power on/off

Physical Parameters

• 4U: 24x 3.5/2.5” hard drive bays (front-loading, hot swap)
• Dimensions (l x w x h): 27” x 19” x 7” (686 x 483 x 178 mm)
• Rackmount rails 26” - 36.5”
• Empty weight: 75 lbs (34 kg)
• Fully-Loaded weight: 114 lbs (52 kg)

Disk Management

• Global hot spares
• Hot-swappable drives
• Corrupted block scan + HDD S.M.A.R.T.
• Hard drive activity/alert LEDs
• Local and remote (KMIP) key management
• Enclosure monitoring and alerts

Virtualization

• Supports VMware and VAAI, ESXi snapshot integration, VM Warn/Stun, vCenter
• Supports KVM, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V, bhyve, and other common hypervisors
• Microsoft VSS, ODX, and CSV
• Integrated Jails and Plugins

File System

• OpenZFS Self-healing file system
• Snapshots and clones
• Thin and thick provisioning
• Online capacity expansion
• Virtual block devices
• In-line compression and deduplication
• ZFS Stripe, Mirror, RAID-Z1/Z2/Z3

File-Based Protocols

• SMB v1/2/3
• NFSv3, v4
• AFP, FTP, WebDAV

Block-Based Protocols

• iSCSI
• Fibre Channel
• OpenStack Cinder

Object Protocols

• S3-compliant
• Minio Management

High Availability

• Dual controller support
• Automated failover without data loss
• Virtual IP address migration
• Online software updates
• TrueCache NVDIMM sync between controllers

Directory Services

• Active Directory (AD)
• Kerberos
• LDAP, NIS

Networking

• Port Trunking/NIC Teaming
• IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation
• IEEE 802.1q VLAN support

Remote Administration

• Alert notifications via email, AWS-SNS, Hipchat, InfluxDB, Slack, Mattermost, OpsGenie, PagerDuty, and VictorOps
• SSH, Syslog
• Automated backup of system configuration and state
• Graphical reporting, enclosure management
• Signed updates with the ability to rollback
• IPMI Remote Management with iKVM HTML5
• REST APIs and SNMP
• TrueCommand Single Pane of Glass

Backup

• Snapshot-based OpenZFS local/remote replication
• Rsync and cloudsync
• Backup data to public clouds
• Supports Asigra, Acronis, Veeam, Nakivo, NetBackup, and more

Supported Public Cloud Providers

• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
• BackBlaze B2 Cloud
• Google Cloud
• Microsoft Azure