 So I've been running and testing with the FreeNAS 11.2 Beta1 for a little over a week now, and it works pretty well. I have not had any major issues with FreeNAS's functionality. I have had issues though with the plugins and jails. I'm going to talk about that in a second, but we'll start with just the general functionality of the system. Now, this is the new UI. If you're a diehard and like the old UI, you can revert to it, but some things are, because they made the switch, not working well at all. I think the jails are gone. The jails are installed and working, but they don't show up in the old legacy UI. I don't know if they ever will when this hits production, but I do have some jails running, and here they are. Now, this system is reasonably fast. It's AMD Opturon older model, so it's not anything blazing fast. Okay, so it's not that fast at all. I just set it up because I have the server laying around through a few drives in here and did some testing with it. And it really has been overall stable as far as core functionality of the system. It has not randomly crashed on me. It hasn't had any weird issues that forced me to reboot. There's little quirks that are some known bugs in the list of bug reports that, of course, are going to have fixed by the time this comes into release. Nothing I did ran into any of them. So, from setting up the storage pools to snapshotting them to sharing them out, no bugs at all. All that stuff, as I said, your base level free NAS stuff works perfectly fine. So, here's my window shares mounted, move files back and forth. That hasn't been a problem at all. Now, the VM system and the jail system are greatly enhanced, and I still had a really hard time with the VMs in this. That's, I'm still not a big fan of it. I know it's something you're working on. It uses UEFI. I just had little quirky issues with it. I know there's work throughs for any of the problems you may have with it. I do really like the way they built in the VNC with it. So, you can view your VM through a browser, but I just don't feel that free NAS is the place to run my VM, so I don't know how much time I'll spend working on it. I do really like the switch to IOCage, and the bugs that they have in here in IOCage we're going to talk about right now. This is kind of a major one. So, IOCage fetch plugins, and you can IOCage fetch the latest version, but it doesn't quite work the way it's supposed to. Let me show you what this means. This is one of the buggy reports. This is all filed, and they're working on it in a target. It's going to be probably beta 2 when they have this issue fixed. So, let's go over here and take a look at what's in the jails. Now, the jails are what runs the plugins. So, this, if you want to use this and beta test with it, and you want to use a plugin, you're going to have some issues with it unless you understand how to, you know, kind of work around it. So, I created a test and test 2. I created these jails here. This one's down because, well, watch how it doesn't start. So, we'll tell it to start, and it just fizzles out. But of course, when you do it from here, you don't get to see the errors. So, we're going to go ahead and do it here. Start test 2. 11.1 is not greater than Jail 11.2. This is unsupported. Now, here's what's really strange. What happens is when you build a new jail and you're choosing the new 11.2, it starts up. But when you stop it, it won't start again, or if you reboot the system, it won't start because IO Cage has some type of flaw that causes it. There's a whole discussion on this problem. Now, how does this affect the plugins? Well, we'll can load one real quick. Available plugins. Whoops. So, if we go here, we go to install the plugin, save. So, here it installed it, and looks like it's ready to go, and it ran a plugin. But notice how it's an 11.2 release. Let's go back here, and we're going to go ahead and stop, Plex. And there's our error again. So, now the plugin, if you're assuming it's working when you load this, you get the plugin all set up, and then it never starts again. So, there's still some quirks to work out. I know this is in there. There is a workaround for this, and I'll show you real quick what we have here, is when you create a jail manually, test 3, you just choose the slightly older release version here, next, and away it goes. I'm not going to create another one. But we go here to Jails, switch back over to here. Well, this one's already up and running, so we can stop and start it though. Stop, start, and it starts up perfectly fine. That's this jail right here called test. Now, what I've done here also is, it does not look complete. We're going to go into this jail here, and this is one of them I manually created. I have Plex running in it, and it works perfectly fine. So, you can use the plugins, but you're going to have to manually build the jail and then load plugin inside of jail. That way works perfectly fine. So, that's just a big caveat here if you wanted to test this out. There's some issues. I have not tried any in-place upgrades if the plugins migrate properly from the old versions of FreeNAS into the new versions, but I know there's a lot of changes going on, and I don't have a guide on that. I don't know if I'm going to make one. I've also run in some of the other plugins, NextCloud specifically, because I had a client contact me, and we helped them get it set up. NextCloud does not in provision properly in here either. It actually dumps all the data, but not where it's supposed to. So, I had to append a couple of things in the config file and kind of do a manual setup of that. So, the plugins really kind of dicey right now. I'm sure they'll have it all worked out, but I wanted to get that out there that these like, so to speak, add-ons or was referred to as some of the add-on middleware for this does seem to have a little bit of a problem right now. And there's bugs on it. They're actively working on it. That's why there's beta in the title. So, no big deal there. There's, like I said, if you want to play around with it, you can just build your own jails and run them manually. I'm going to be doing some more in-depth on the IOCage jail system. As I've learned a lot about it, I like it. It's definitely a great system. It's very efficient, very fast, and I'm going to be building a system with it pretty soon here, replacing my home system so I can, you know, do this even more in-depth with this version as I can help them fill out bug reports and do some beta testing. Now, one thing I'm excited about that works really well. So, the Cloud Sync task. I set this up to an encrypted Cloud Sync bucket. And I'm going to do a tutorial. Probably I'll wait till it's beta 2 so I can have a more polished interface. I don't know if they're going to make any major changes so I don't want to really do their tutorial on it and if there's going to be a bunch of version changes. But I can tell you that I've been testing it and it works. So, over here, we have the FreeNAS beta bucket. And we have an LTS FreeNAS bucket. Now, this is a feature that came a while ago in FreeNAS being able to Cloud Sync to AWS, Backblaze, and other S3 bucket providers, S3 compatible bucket providers. There's a lot of options in here of backing it up. But of course, the question comes in, why don't trust those companies to store my data? So, I want to encrypt it before. Great answer. So, we can go over here and this is how it used to store the data. So, we go in here. Here's the file names. I could download them. This is the old version of FreeNAS. I configured and set up and it goes to this bucket here. So, let's go in and look at the way the buckets are. Now, if they're encrypted, I'll show you how this is set up in just a second, here is the FreeNAS beta using the encryption. You have encrypted folders, names, all the file names encrypted, so you can't see anything that's inside of here. Let me actually connect to the share. I uploaded kind of the same files again I uploaded before. It's all the Sunday morning Linux review. These are the names of the files of our podcast. The directory name purposely is just one character. And then here's a couple of dev files that I had to download for something else. I threw them in here and because the encryption used, you don't see anything. You see the folder? You can't even tell that it's only a one character folder. So, it adds assault to this. It adds encryption to this. So, wonderful job here on being able to do this. Now, you can back up, push back and forth to the cloud and not have to worry about your data being there. Now, how does that work? Let's talk about that. Let's edit the settings. I made the password and assault the same Thomas123 dollar sign. Really simple. I know not a complicated password that's what I'm showing it to you guys. So, no one, no one go but time you left your super secure password out. Obviously, it's not super secure. And a note of warning and I may ask some to change this. It says the password for encrypting and decrypting what data warning always back up this password losing the encryption password can result in a data loss. No, I should say it will result in data loss. Once you're using the encryption here and it encrypts it, it doesn't have a way to unencrypt it if you lose these passwords. So, make sure you have a backup. Know what these passwords are. Use a lot of entropy. They left a lot of room on here to put a long password in. So, when you're doing these encrypted backups that are wonderful so you can get your data off site securely. Also, make sure you are using backing up that password. So, just a note on there. In as far as the way the system works, hourly, daily, weekly and it uses a sync synchronization. So, as you add a remote things, it can be synchronized with your offsite bucket. And then there's all kinds of other options you can do to have multiple copies of it. That being said, if you're not familiar with back plays and their buckets, I may do some more tutorials on there. You can even have back plays create snapshots of the bucket too. So, you can, even though it's encrypted, they can still create snapshots because they're not looking at the data. They're looking at just the files themselves and in whatever the back end file system back plays is using creating copies of it. So, I mean, I'm going to do once this all comes out a really nice offsite backup plan with back plays and show you how to do that once this comes out of beta. Or when I fail low, it's really close to being out of beta. So, there's not many interface changes. But overall, the system works really well. I also did test, and I'll show you on the services here which I still am not a fan of this. It's all too big and I don't know. I like it. I like this list for you a lot better. But I did set up iSCSI on. I'm going to do a tutorial on this as well. The iSCSI seemed to work perfectly fine. The only thing that I thought was a little strange when you're setting up their authorized access in previous versions of FreeNAS, you can put a username here, the secret, and you can skip the peer user if you're not using the peer setup. They don't let you skip it. I don't know if that's a bug or a feature. So, when you're setting up authorized access for your iSCSI, if you want to set that up that way, it makes you put in that. It was confusing at first because it won't let you continue until you do it, but it doesn't necessarily tell you what you're doing wrong. Fill it all in and it works perfectly fine. I also have some iSCSI tutorials coming up and I'm going to do it with the new interface because I can't imagine this is going to change much. But this works perfectly fine. The iSCSI connected, I connected to a Zen server, moved some things around on it. No errors, no issues that seem to work perfectly fine. And this is still like the iSCSI configuration so completely available in the old VM. But today I'm going to keep plugging away and keep testing it and kind of get myself very familiar with it. I like the way everything is on one side now. So, it kind of makes it easier to like for a workflow, I just know all those things tear down from the side over here. The only thing just a little bit because I'm not used to it is going, hey, what's this over here? I keep wanting to go here to add like a data set. You add data sets here and Z-Vals here. This adds entirely other pools where you can import a great pool. From a UI design standpoint, I kind of wish they had maybe a plus here, but I got the three dots menu. So, I guess that makes sense to have that there. And of course, here's the one for the IOC age and all the jails and the templates. But I'll be doing more in depth as this comes along. If you have questions, comments, leave them below. If you are using this and you found some type of bug in this, go ahead and fill out a bug report. That's how they get fixed. Complaining about them doesn't fix them. Filing bug reports do. This is one reason I'm testing it. I'm going to build myself my home system and move my Plex server and everything over to this, even though it's in beta. So, I can really put it to actual use and see how it's working. But so far, I've tested things in other than the kind of weird issues with the plugins and jails. Building a manually works fine. I'm sure they're going to have that fixed. I know in the forum, someone has kind of a work around how to get around it. But that's kind of a weird bug to me that it's not understanding the version that it has in there. But like I said, this should be cleared up and you can just run the jails manually, build them manually, and it still works. You can still use the jail system in here. All right. Thanks. This is just an update on the FreeNAS 11.2 beta. I'm looking forward to the new versions that are coming out. This is a welcome refresh and it works well overall. The core functions are well. Just the VM stuff. Thanks for watching. If you like this video, go ahead and click the thumbs up. Leave us some feedback below to let us know any details what you like and didn't like as well because we love hearing the feedback or if you just want to say thanks, leave a comment. If you want to be notified of new videos as they come out, go ahead and hit the subscribe and the bell icon that lets YouTube know that you're interested in notifications. Hopefully, they send them as we've learned with YouTube. 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