iXsystems TrueNAS X20
Compact Unified Enterprise Open Source Storage

Compact Unified Enterprise Storage

The TrueNAS X-Series is a line of compact entry-level enterprise storage appliances that deliver reliability, unbeatable value, and efficient performance over ethernet or fiber channel. Available in hybrid or all-flash configurations, the X-Series provides high availability options for up to 1 PB in capacity.

The TrueNAS X-Series is a compact 2U system with 12 drives and expansion to 72 drives and over 1PB of capacity. Each system can be configured for scalable Hybrid capacity or affordable All-Flash performance. The X-Series is designed for industry-leading Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) with <300W power. Pricing is all-inclusive of TrueNAS Enterprise software and TrueCommand can be used to manage the entire fleet.

Efficient by Design

The sleek 2U design of the X-Series is designed to minimize rack space and power footprint to provide efficient performance and capacity for small to medium workloads. Despite its small size, a single TrueNAS X20 can support up to 1 PB of raw capacity in just 6U.

Storage You Can Rely On

Pairing the best Open Source storage technology with enterprise-grade hardware offers best-in-class reliability. 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 so you can keep working even if a component fails.

Hardware Management: Simplified.

The X-Series was built for painless operation and maintenance with its 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.

Scale Up or “SCALE” Out

Begin building the foundation of your scale-out, hyper-converged virtualization infrastructure with TrueNAS SCALE or use TrueNAS Enterprise for high-performance, ultra-reliable local HA storage. With the lowest total cost of ownership for enterprise storage, a self-hosted TrueNAS storage solution can save over 70% the cost of public cloud storage.

Professional White-Glove Support

In the unlikely event that a failure does happen, you can rest easy knowing that all TrueNAS X-Series systems are fully backed by our world-class support team. Bronze, Silver, and Gold support packages are backed by a global spares network to keep you up and running, no matter where you’re located.

Hybrid Flash Performance

Solid-state performance at spinning-disk capacity and cost. TrueNAS leverages ZFS to merge multi-layer DRAM and flash cache with high-density spinning disks: system RAM and SSDs are used to cache reads and writes while HDDs store the data. RAM and SSD performance is significantly faster than HDDs, while power requirements are much lower. TrueNAS lets you increase performance and scale capacity while conserving power and saving money.

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

The TrueNAS X-Series maximizes storage efficiency by offering compression, 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 over 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.

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 7.68 TB
  • RI, SED, FIPS 140-2 options

Power Management

• Dual redundant, hot-swappable, high-efficiency (90%+) power supplies
• Auto-switching 100-240V 50/60Hz input power supported
• Remote power on/off
• UPS signal response and alerts

Physical Parameters

• 2U: 12x 3.5/2.5” hard drive bays (front-loading, hot swap)
• Dimensions (l x w x h): ◦21” x 19” x 3.5” | 531 x 447 x 89 mm
• Rackmount Rails:
  • 23.5” - 29.5” standard
  • up to 36” with included extenders
• Empty weight: 26 lbs | 12 kg
• Fully-Loaded weight: 44 lbs | 20 kg

Disk Management

• Global hot spares
• Hot-swappable drives
• Corrupted block scan + HDD S.M.A.R.T.
• Hard drive activity/alert LEDs
• Hardware-accelerrated disk encryption (AES-NI)
• Enclosure monitoring and alert LEDs

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

Directory Services

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

Networking

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

High Availability

• Dual controller support
• Automated failover without data loss
• Virtual IP address migration
• Online software updates

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
• Out-of-Band Management
• 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