We’ve made it official: iXsystems is now doing business as TrueNAS. From community setups to virtualization updates, here’s what’s new.
iXsystems Rebrands as TrueNAS
You have been calling us TrueNAS for years, now it's official. iXsystems is now doing business as TrueNAS.
This change reflects how far the platform and those that trust TrueNAS to protect their data have come. With over 60% of the Fortune 500 trusting TrueNAS, and massive growth across enterprise and community edition deployments, the brand you helped build is finally unified.
Thanks for being part of the journey. We are just getting started.
We love our community. This is why we decided to share some of our community’s experiences with TrueNAS on our new Community Edition web page:
The page features stories, setups, and shoutouts from users around the world who rely on TrueNAS every day. It’s our way of saying thank you and putting the spotlight back where it belongs.
TrueNAS Tech Talk: Virtualization Classic, CE Future, and AI Experiments
In this episode, Chris and Kris cover the return of Virtualization Classic in 25.04.2 and what's coming in 25.10, including support for TPM and running Windows 11 in the restored VM subsystem. They also answer a community question about the long-term vision for TrueNAS Community Edition, reaffirming: it's not going anywhere.
Plus, they talk about edge-case hardware requests, developer mode experiments, and how agentic AI tools like Cloude Code and Gemini CLI are shaping workflows.
DM Honeybadger on the forums or write questions to t3@truenas.com if you’ve got a topic you want to see covered next.
What’s going on with VMs and Containers in TrueNAS?
The virtualization tab is officially coming back in versions 25.04.2 and 25.10, with a focus on making key features like TPM and VNC enterprise-ready. Containers will stay experimental for now, but the team is continuing development behind the scenes.
On other news, Kris and Chris also discuss Jellyfin catching up to Plex in active deployments, Tailscale becoming the go-to for private VPN-like connections, and the Immich app receiving a storage layout update to boost performance.
Jens Neubauer, developer and IT architect, and member of the TrueNAS Advisory Council, turned to TrueNAS to bring reliability and control to his home storage setup. After struggling with a slow, basic external drive and being let down by another OS, Jens installed TrueNAS on a ZimaCube and built a balanced system featuring mirrored boot drives, SSDs for apps, and 30 TB of RAIDZ2-protected storage.
As Jens puts it, “It’s not about moving fast, it’s about moving thoughtfully.” His story is a great reminder of what the TrueNAS community is all about: building reliable systems that last.
Lawrence Systems chats with Allan Jude from Klara about ZFS recovery, performance under heavy snapshots, RAIDZ expansion, fast dedup, block cloning, and why ZFS is truly copy-on-write.
Planning your NAS setup? This video from Hardware Haven breaks down how to configure 4, 6, or 8 drives using ZFS on TrueNAS Community Edition, with real benchmarks run on a TrueNAS Mini R. Great for home labbers looking to balance performance, capacity, and resilience.
Matt walks through his upgraded TrueNAS Community Edition server, covering hardware tweaks, the switch to Electric Eel, and setting up apps like Tailscale, Pi-hole, Immich, Jellyfin, and more.
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