 Tom here from Orange Systems and FreeNAS 11.3 was released on January 20, 2020. Today is February 8, 2020, and we're gonna talk about the release and all the updates related to it. If you want to learn more about me or my company, head over to LawrenceSystems.com. If you want to hire us for a project, there's a hires button at the top, or if you just want to reach out, there's a forums where I spend some time replying and chatting with people. Also, if you want to help the channel out in other ways, there are affiliate links down below that get you deals on services and products we talk about on this channel. But FreeNAS is free. You can go ahead and download this. You don't need any special affiliate link to get that going. So FreeNAS 11.3 has been released. I talked about it in the release candidates. I started trying it in a release candidate, and then once it went full release, updated my systems. I wanted to wait a week before I did a video so I could, you know, talk about that it works. And yes, I haven't had any problems. A few highlights, the re-implemented replication engine. That was cool. That was the only not really problem, but it didn't copy my replication over from the old version to the new. It gave an error. I just deleted the replication started it over again, which was perfectly fine because the way they did it now is a lot easier. Now I have promised and I will get to a separate video on the ACL manager. This has been really nice. It offers a lot more control over permissions, which is a vexing problem for many people. Also, I did a video on the SMB shadow copies are now enabled by default on shares. This is another great feature where the VSS is, as it's presented to a Windows system and share, it looks like volume shadow services. So you can look at a snapshot and see it right from Windows. I talked about that and did a video on last time. That's a great feature. The ice because the wizard is really nice alert system overhaul dashboard updates. They're nice polish on the dashboard. I'll just say that Nats support for plugins eliminates the need for each plug and have a dedicated IP address on your network. I haven't really tested that much. But I think that's a neat feature they added it in there. Featured full featured 2.0 API includes REST WebSocket Connection. I'll be fully scripted and driven from the same API used for the web interface. This is a really nice back end feature for those people that are going to create customizations on top of it. So I think this is going to be a really cool in the future where we see more people plugging away and coming up with different ways to manage free NAS. Large pool creation assistance when creating ZFS pools with a large number of this UI price automated way to repeat a VDev layout across remaining disks. Now I just did a video about laying out ZFS and VDevs. It's kind of related to all this too because this question comes up as well of how do I lay out all these disks and what's the most efficient or what's going to be the most performance way to do that. Performance optimization across the board, many different workloads. Nice stuff to hear. If you want to dive into some of the rad of that you can follow the ZFS dev blogs and things like that if you want to get into the finer details of it. Always back up before you upgrade. That's important. But let's talk about. I did back up. I did upgrade. It works great. So this is what the interface looks like on the free NAS mini e 3.0. I did a review of this and people hammered on a keyboard talking about how underpowered this system was. And I like it. I took this one. This is a VPN over back to my house where it is sitting and chilling out quietly running a few things that we'll talk about. So the upgrade went perfectly fine on this. The replication is not something I use on this one. I'll talk about the other one. But let's talk about plugins and services because I still think this is a great home box for people that want and turnkey out of the box just works type system. So let's go over here to the plugins, which this is a big deal. I did revamp the plugins for the new 11 three. They got the system ones and then the community plugins right here. And yes, because you're for those of you that were feel vindicated to say yes, isn't it taking a little bit of time to load time? Yes, it does. That is the nature of this. I'll grab some coffee real quick. I didn't have to edit that. I just want to drink a coffee. That's I just want to show that is a little bit slower on this and you'll see on the other system is a lot faster. But they have the community plugins and are redoing how they do this. So the community can easier makes it easier for the community contribute plugins on there. And then there's a separation between which plugins are supported by the folks at IAC systems, which do include some commercial ones like the a secret backup and a few other things. So it's nice to see which ones are supported by the act systems versus which ones are going to be supported by the community. So this is nice way they've separated that out. And these are the plugins I'm running in here. I have my Plex plugin and I have the paid version of Plex pass syncing and transmission because you have to see, you know, stuff for things. You know, those latest distros that come out. I'm a big Linux guy. So been doing that. And this works perfectly fine. Have no problems. Syncing works great. Not a problem here and Plex pass. Everything's been working perfectly fine with these. No issues doing updates and such. And on the system, I will admit running Plex on here. No, it's not going to do 4k. The processor does kind of limited to that. Also jails in general, I do for my home system just like to keep a system running. So I have my Alcatraz jail right here that I just keep running so I can SSH into it kind of an as needed basis. Now mount points, a few people commented that they couldn't get mount points to work. I went and tested this. I'm going to do some new videos on the new jails because everything's on IO cage now versus the last time we did a jail video. I believe it was warden back then. So I'm going to do some new videos and I okay, but I haven't had any problems with the mounting and mapping all the data to different places hasn't been an issue at all. Now, one other thing that I'm using in here that is really important is over here to the block share ice fuzzy. And yes, I have a video on steam that I set up on here. Now I have it working perfectly fine. It has had no problems with both the upgrade to here. And yes, when I did the video, I was still using my gaming system while my son's gaming system was still on Windows seven because we hadn't gotten around upgrading it. And I'm here to report that the steam system works perfectly well. And I'm going to be doing a follow up on that because one thing I thought about doing was go ahead and do a video like the follow up on it and do a video where I set up two systems on as we put another gaming system together. And I might store it on here as well. Now, quick note, ice fuzzy is not shared so I cannot share the steam library with two systems simultaneously via ice fuzzy, but I could create another ice fuzzy system on here and share it out. So that'll be a separate video I'll do. Also, despite this machine only having a very small amount of RAM. So we currently have right here, ZFS cash, five gigs of it dedicated to caching. Now this is an important distinction. Because even though I'm running Plex and those things because over in jails are relatively efficient because jails are essentially very containers running and sharing the same kernel inside of this BSD system. And I still have great performance on it because so much of it gets cached. And this is what especially because the game usage that this has running the games on here is a lot of caching back and forth pulling up the assets for when you load into different levels and things like that. And being able to ask for those repeated access over ice fuzzy, that gets cached and seems to be quite efficient running on there. All right. So as you can see when it's not doing much as not streaming any movies because I'm here, it's perfectly fine to sit here idling at 3%. Now let's talk about this system, which is a little bit faster of a system. This has 32 gigs ram and we've got 26 gig currently sitting in cash with this does here is holds my virtual machines and all the video recordings that I do end up over here. This system running perfectly fine. The only plugin I have on here, which I even really configured I was just using it for testing is the syncing plugin that I have set up on here. And when you switch over to things obviously and refresh the indexes, it's way faster on this machine because this system has 24 threads and it's an Intel Xeon E five 26 20 so a lot faster with 32 gigs ram and then available space the look at the drives itself. I got quite a few drives in here spread across for just mostly just storage with some redundancy. I don't worry about and I don't have a caching drive in here RAID Z two for some redundancy but I don't have a caching drive because with 32 gigs, well, most stuff gets pushed into cash anyways on here, including the VMs that run in here are a bunch of small VMs I use for my lab demos and things like that that are on a combination of both NFS and ice because he shares. So for those of you that always ask that question, both are working perfectly fine. And of course, that's an important distinction when you do the upgrade. Did you break any of these? No, everything worked perfectly fine, including the V lands, I have set up. So I have 10 gig interface 10 gig interface that just is dedicated to the storage network for my VMs and my X C P and G machines that connect to this and then a 10 gig interface for everything else that connects to it, which is really just my videos and random things that I throw on here that our staff sometimes uses but there's actually not any customer stuff on this particular system at all. We just don't keep it there. We have a different system for that. Other than that, I the shares have gone well. No problems setting those back up the plugins migrated. I didn't rebuild them when I switched to the new version, like I said, the jails didn't have any problems. And I don't have like I said, many on here. So my overall impression of 11.3 is it works great. The upgrades have gone very smooth. They haven't been a headache at all. And even the betas weren't really smooth at this whole update. Now as far as the interface polish, I do like the way they put the little hard drive pictures and pictures of the network interfaces on here. They did do a nice job of this because of this was something confusing previously where you could not see easily all the network summary pages or for example, look at the global configuration of the network, or just look at the network interfaces. So when you look at the interfaces, for example, you can see the physical physical and one VLAN setup. Now someone said they didn't like this that you have to expand this out each time. I really haven't had a problem with it. It to me seemed perfectly fine. But I guess if you're looking through things, it is a little bit more tedious. And on that topic, I will show where I guess maybe and maybe someone's listening, maybe I'll file a bug report on here. So here's the different storage pools. And let's look at the snapshots I have for this. Well, I was curious, what's the biggest snapshot I have in here and used to you could just sort by that. Now those columns do seem to be gone unless I'm, you know, wrong under some other way to view them. I don't see a way to put that back. So I can't just sort by that. So if I want to know, all right, there's referenced 822 gigs here and referenced here, but I have to expand each one out to figure it out. So 983 gigs versus there. And matter of fact, you can tell all my son loaded a new game. So that's how much referenced on there. That's one thing about this running steam on this. He's moved a lot of his games over here and some of the new ones. But each snapshot when there's no new games loaded, there's actually very little changed on any of these. So you're not using too much of the snapshots on there. But this is also nice in case something were tragically to happen to the steam library. I have several weeks back, but it doesn't take much to keep that several weeks back. So my overall on the FreeNAS 11 three, it's great solid system. I will be doing a start to finish video on this soon. And of course, I'll do a dedicated one for permissions to sort that out for people and a dedicated one on jails because, well, I've been learning IO cage, and it's got some really cool features when you're playing with IO cage. And I do like it a lot. But there are some, you know, nuances to how jails work. And I like to do an explainer on them because they're a really handy feature to be able to pack a lot of power into FreeNAS. And I love that they got these community plugins, of course, so now we can expand upon that quite a bit more and dive into seeing maybe if I get real inspired, I'll figure out how to create a plug in myself because that would be kind of a fun challenge. I got to see if I can find time for that. All right, and thanks. And thank you for making it to the end of the video. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up. 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