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TrueNAS SCALE Clustered SMB to the fore

By cfheoh | July 4, 2022 - 8:00 am |July 4, 2022 API, Appliance, Business Continuity, CIFS, Clusters, Containers, Data Availability, Data Management, Disaster Recovery, Filesystems, FreeNAS, Gluster, High Performance Computing, iXsystems, Microsoft, NAS, NFS, Ryuusi, Scale-out architecture, SCSI, SMB, Software Defined Storage, TrueNAS, Unified Storage, Virtualization
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iXsystems™ released second iteration of TrueNAS® SCALE software just over a week ago. It is known as version 22.02.2 or Anglefish.2, with the most notable upgrades to HA (High Availability) for SCALE and Clustered SMB capabilities. This is the perfect excuse for me to learn about Clustered SMB and share what I have learned.

TrueNAS SCALEFor the

For the uninformed, Clustered SMB brings highly available SMB file sharing services to mission critical environments. More importantly, Clustered SMB is high availability in a scale-out clustered architecture.

My view beyond HA SMB

I am not familiar with Clustered SMB in a NAS (Network Attached Storage). The world I am more familiar with is either having CIFS/SMB file services on a dual controller storage appliance or running Windows File Sharing on an Microsoft® Clustered Service (MSCS). Typically in these 2 types of HA SMB services, the scale up architecture require a shared access to a consolidated storage volume. Behind the scenes, there are many mechanisms at play to ensure that one, and only one, storage controller or HA host can have write access capabilities at one time. The most common mechanism is the SCSI-3 Persistent Reservation or sometimes known as SCSI fencing, using the SPC-3 (SCSI Primary Command) primitives. The whole objective is to prevent 2 nodes or hosts to writing to the shared storage volume at the same time and other issues like split-brain.

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Tagged Clustered Samba, Clustered Trivial Database, CTDB, distributed clustering, federated clustering, High Availability, metadata server, Microsoft Cluster Server, Samba, scale-out file system, SCSI fencing, SCSI persistent reservation, Trivial Data Base, TrueCommand, windows file sharing
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