Guentha

I just commentedon another post similart to this but I too want a backup option without buying a full copy. I have my servers in a COLO and it would be cool to have a localy accessable copy at my house for speed and geographic redundancy. my other sugestion would just be multisite licencing. with all server on that licence syncing with eachother as a private cloud.

LACP is alreay in truenas. dont know about HEXOS gui yet but you can always drop to truenas and do your bonding. I bond 4 40gb conections and get about 100GB of throughput(on truenas). haven fired up HEXOS yet.

I was thinking the same thing. Syncthing can do this but I was hoping for a really simple option. would be cool to have a sync licence so you can have a second location without a full licence. I have a colo but would love a copy local at my house. Maybe even a multisite option. cheap pack of 5 with some kind of restriction to only sync between them. would love this for small offices where people often work from home. build them cheap NAS's and they could all be synced like onedrive.

connectx3s are awesome cards. I use them in my cluster. 2 dual port cards in each server bonded into a 160GB interface to a pair of sx6036 switches. I run ethernet mode because it’s simpler and I can’t actually use that much bandwidth, but the cluster likes speedy redundant links. Who would have thought 40GB is cheaper than 10gb. pretty sure I have spent more on DAC cables than cards and switches. Not all cards are equal. there are IB cards, ethernet cards and VPI cards.

I am migraing over to hexos from windows server(stoage spaces) for my storage. I have several HGST 60 drive DAS units and my biggest issue with truenas other than it took more work than it was worth unless you use it all th time is the lack of Drive and enclosure ID's. It identifies drives by serial wich does no good when you have hundreds of drives and cant see the serial. The truenas fourms are awash with peoiple saykng to spend the time and lable the top of the drive with the seireal but this has been solved a million years ago. enterprise stuff lists drives by control,encloser and Drive ID 00:00:41 ( card 0, enclosure 0, drive 41.) Windows server has always done this, limux has always done this but Truenas seems to ignore this. this gets super frustriating when II add an encluser of 60 drives and 56 of them show up......now what? slowly pull them one by one till I find one that doesnt disapear? Super simple. just add the ID's next to serial in the GUI. life will be awsome again.