Seriously? Can a FreeNAS setup actually support the kind of uptime and performance features of modern enterprise storage? I've never heard of an open solution supporting redundant controllers and multipath, for instance.
well, re: "enterprise storage", note that i did specify "internal corp IT dept".
so i guess it depends on what you mean by "enterprise"? and what that enterprise does?
we serve a decent amount of video content out (~35Gbps during peak) and we have a lot of video content stored and edited in-house. we made the decision to use TrueNAS for our _internal_ work video storage and sharing, but (not yet) for _public_ serving of video.
all the in-house edit masters, work files/partial renders etc are stored on the in-office TrueNAS systems, but the actual _serving_ of the final encoded HLS content out to customers is via in-DC clustered NetApp sitting behind a lot of striped SSDs (FS-Cache) serving out http(s). we have an autoencoding pipeline that picks up the finished masters from the TrueNAS, does the various encodes and throws them up on the NetApps for public serving once they're done.
i'm a longtime enterprise storage user (and specifically a big fan of NetApp), but i would very much like to see if its possible to transition out of such a giant dollar-suck as NetApp and give something like TrueNAS a chance at the frontend.
these baby steps (so far successful!) are our foray into these uncharted waters!
Yes. My employer uses TrueNAS and we have some setup with redundant controllers in an HA configuration as well as multipathing. The HA feature is considered enterprise so it won't be in the FreeNAS ... I mean TrueNAS Core edition.
