Case Study: Ashland Food Co-op achieves high-performance virtualization with iXsystems TrueNAS

Ashland Food Co-op - Customer Case Study

Ashland Food Co-op, the only certified organic food retailer in Southern Oregon, faced significant disk I/O bottlenecks after virtualizing their servers, which hindered their sustainability goals. They contacted vendor iXsystems to find a centralized storage solution that could resolve these performance issues within their budget.

iXsystems implemented a TrueNAS solution featuring two appliances for replication and disaster recovery, utilizing flash-based L2ARC read cache for high IOPS and low latency. This deployment exceeded the co-op's performance needs, eliminating bottlenecks and providing stability through features like periodic snapshots. The successful results from iXsystems gave the IT team confidence in their data safety and paved the way for future infrastructure expansion.

Ashland Food Co-op

Steve Davidson

Systems Administrator