 So yesterday December 16th 2017 FreeNAS 11.1 is available and this is exciting because today is Sunday December 17th and it's server upgrade day for me saying a lot of things to get upgraded and this was among I added this to my list and I back everything up so I'm not worried about you know loading my production servers over to FreeNAS 11.1 I like to test this on my own before I start rolling it over to clients now it's got some cool features that are pretty exciting here including AMD Ryzen support is built in and something we're gonna talk about and show you actually how it works I set up the backblaze b2 cloud option on there now they support a few different Amazon S3 backblaze Google cloud and Microsoft Azure so you can do some storage buckets and I want to cover that part real quick how it works is it's really cool now they preliminary add some Docker container support so that's pretty cool Docker delivers a VM I'm gonna maybe test that later that's pretty beta I've not been thrilled with any of their VM stuff it doesn't I play with it I haven't on a video on it because it just didn't work very fluid so I've stuck with Zen for my VM servers kind of need be able to run it all inside of FreeNAS but on the production side it just it just didn't work very well for me so it's why I haven't spent a lot of time with it and it's still in beta so at some point when I feel it was more stable I maybe recommend it for now they are adding it if you want to play with it it's there now they're also are putting some time into the GUI the new one and this has been a kind of neat way they developed it where you saw the functionality in a way it looks in FreeNAS 11 but there's an option when you log in to look at the new Angular version that they have now it's still not feature complete and that's what this is another update to add more features but it's still not feature complete so as cool as all the cool graphs and everything look inside of it until it's feature complete it's not something I'll use every day but I'll still give you guys a peek of it you know if you try it out for yourself I mean that's really get some feedback to them and help develop it they know what's missing I haven't really had any problems with the crashing it's just not all there so until it gets there I things until everything I need to use is in there I don't bother logging into it so he'd happen to jump back and forth between things all right so here's my system it's loaded up with FreeNAS 11.1 here and let's cover real quickly the cloud things this this is neat so I have set up my blazing bucket test and it's a push for a mount to go here now we'll edit it and give you an idea how this looks when you go ahead and create some credentials and we're gonna jump to a credential second you can create these jobs and I have a job that says every 30 minutes sync up the data you can sync copy or move the data over to the cloud for a writer now the way you set up the cloud writers is pretty neat so you go over here system cloud credentials and I'm gonna blur out my application ID so you can't jump into my bucket but it's pretty simple you put your account ID the application key associated with the bucket inside of whichever storage provider of your choice and away we go so I have a backblaze and there's plenty of rooms you can keep adding multiple so you can have multiple providers backing up your data so once you have that you go over to the tasks and here's one I can add another cloud sync if I want so this is the one for blazing bucket test and it goes here like we had said and I just have it set to run every 30 minutes but you can select certain times to run all the standard menu features if you're familiar with them and FreeNAS are right here now how does this work really well I know errors I set it up I went into backblaze created a bucket storage for this I actually created a free backup account on backblaze just to test this and because I didn't have an account with them I store my data elsewhere and it no problem I'm able to upload the files browse the files I threw some thumbnails and stuff in there for my YouTube videos and I might start using some pricing an easy way to back up all of my videos because I have redundant offsite storage but the videos are huge and I'd have to put in a big storage server somewhere to put them so I'm actually thinking about archio am either you know an Azure or Azure because I have some space there or right here on backblaze and it's nice I can you know still a cloud provider in there and it's a really simple to use this is a great way for enabling backups on your free Nasser's I really like this feature a lot maybe I'll set some more stuff up and do scenarios and do something more in depth but it may not need much I mean it only took me a few minutes to set this up you you go create the bucket at the application ID copy paste boom done and that's it you're you're set it up matter of fact if you ever wanted to change the cloud provider or the bucket you can just change your credentials here like I said I only have backblaze in there now but you just hit the poll down choose the provider and the scripts you already have set up we'll just go to that provider instead so really easy stuff here all right so covered that another thing they added and I don't think I seen that in their list here yeah they did not mention this they snuck this one in down here and it's funny I just did a review of this yesterday is net data by default it's not turned on so you can start and stop it and when you click it there's no config but it'll take you to the UI which is right here and it's your IP address slash net data and this is the same net data that I was using yesterday for my video if you didn't see that one I'll leave a link in there and this is great it's it's coming built and installed with here it's turned off by default easy enough to turn on and has all the ZFS gives interface information here and it's cool because you can look at all the speeds data actually this is particularly neat zoom into IPv4 we're gonna jump over to the well I should go into network interfaces and this is the 10 gigabit interface that we have and you can see when I started up the servers and the peaks and usage for that it's it's really cool so I was like this is this is pretty neat I'm a big fan of net data so integrating it in here is really nice it'll break down all the application usage it's all the same features I talked about before gives you all the discs so you can look at what each disc is doing in here so there's all the wonderful detail you get with the system it'll also give you information by mount type so you can have like this is each mount so it breaks down a lot more detail running on ZFS so it's got all the plugins loaded which is great so it'll even give you the efficiency of your ZFS file system as in your arc and your cache hits and the graphs are super pretty as well so I you know then one of the reasons I really like this being able to have the really nice graphs and everything and zoom in and out so this is this is a great feature a little if you can't tell I'm a little excited about this feature being in there well I like pretty graphs and I think a lot of you guys do too it lets you drill down especially when you're trying to solve load issues and things like that for what's going on with your servers you can kind of do a nice dig in with this and have that data now last thing I said I do is take a look at the new GUI so here it is it's neat it's great but well let's go right away to something missing here's cron jobs in its scripts and things like that on our task but you may have know what's missing the feature I was excited about before we haven't they've added the cloud sync but then didn't add it here so I kind of like the hamburger menus and the dialouts the way they're going with it so as a design I like this design it seems pretty simple I can see my shares and things like that but it's very plain compared to even the standard GUI for setting some of these things up so it does work it's functional they have some of the virtualization shales and reporting here now what is nice here when you're on the dashboard is the reporting so this is one thing I really like about it but it's almost moot point when you say this is cool but it's so basic compared to this so I wouldn't I still don't really foresee myself using this much anymore it is neat as it is it's still not this is looks so is it this look would look nice compared to what our old reporting looks like in here which is these really antiquated welcome to the 90s graphs so while this does look better it's not this so yeah I don't know it's cool I'm glad I eventually I think once they get a feature complete I won't have any problem using it because I kind of like the slide outs and in the looks of things so I won't have a problem using when it gets feature complete but until then yeah it's the novel in the background but you can feel free to play with it all right so this is a quick overview of Freenance 11.1 more videos will be coming on this because I know they added some features that I probably didn't cover I'll dig around in this and maybe do a video but the cloud storage thing really cool and the net data integration just turning it on no configuration you just turn it on and tell it to start on startup if you want it running all the time and done you can get the really cool net data graphs in here alright thanks for watching like the content here like and subscribe and knock on wood I did update my system I had no problems I can't say that will happen to you but that's how it works for me I've actually updated a couple of them so far all my test machines I did first and then I did the production machine that includes encrypted drives the only thing I will note and I haven't been able to reproduce it twice it did give an error when I unlocked drives on boot it gave an error but then goes past it I didn't screenshot the error and I did it again it didn't do it so I will work out and see if there's any other bugs but so far and I've been checking the forums and everyone seems like people are upgrading and it's working well but keep you posted leave a link in the comments or join the launch systems forums where I can be more interactive and answering questions if you have any on any of these systems all right once again thanks for watching