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TrueNAS SCALE in Production: Design, Deploy, and Operate Modern Storage Infrastructure is a practical operations guide for engineers who are responsible for storage systems that must not fail. trueThis book is written for real environments-where data loss is unacceptable, outages are costly, and infrastructure decisions have long-term consequences. It assumes you are not experimenting in a lab, but operating TrueNAS SCALE as part of a critical production stack that supports users, applications, virtual machines, and business workflows. Rather than focusing on features or UI walkthroughs, this book explains how TrueNAS SCALE behaves over time, under load, during failure, and across years of ownership. Every chapter is grounded in operational reality: what decisions matter, which choices are irreversible, where most teams make mistakes, and how to recover safely when something goes wrong. You will learn how to design hardware and capacity that survives growth, build ZFS pools without painting yourself into architectural corners, and operate datasets, snapshots, and replication with a clear understanding of their real impact. The book covers production-grade file, block, and object access patterns, explains how to run apps and virtual machines without turning SCALE into a fragile platform, and shows how to plan upgrades, migrations, and hardware refreshes without downtime surprises. Data protection and disaster recovery are treated with the seriousness they deserve. You will learn how to design snapshot policies, replication architectures, and restore workflows that actually work under pressure-not just on paper. Security, governance, and multi-tenant isolation are addressed from an operator's perspective, focusing on least privilege, auditability, and long-term control rather than checkbox compliance. The final chapters focus on what most documentation ignores: day-2 operations, monitoring signals that matter, structured recovery during incidents, controlled migrations, and building operational runbooks that your team can rely on when things break at 3 a.m. This book is ideal for: Storage and infrastructure engineers running TrueNAS SCALE in production DevOps and platform teams integrating SCALE into modern stacks System administrators responsible for data integrity and uptime Architects designing long-lived storage platforms with ZFS Teams migrating from legacy NAS or virtualization platforms If you are looking for a quick start guide or a feature tour, this is not that book. If you are responsible for keeping data safe, services online, and systems operable year after year, this book was written for you.

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