 FreeNAS 11.2 release on December 5th, 2018, which is actually the same day I downloaded it But I waited till today Thursday December 13th, 2018 to talk about it because I wanted to run it and give you my opinion And we've been running this in full production. We use this to Store lots of our data. My video editing is going to it as we speak because I'm recording That's where we dump all the video files and I do all my editing work on it And we've been doing this since release candidate storing all of our stuff on there But we moved everything that was like mission critical I guess you could say from our other FreeNAS to this FreeNAS and it hasn't had a problem at all One minor noted exception and I'll just get this out there. I've other people I think have had the same issue I've not really dug into it because it just doesn't bother me. So it's on my to-do list to file a bug report It doesn't seem to have any Dashboard data in here. I thought that was kind of odd because it was there in the beta and the full release That's the only problem. I've had with the full release. That's it and it's such a minor one And it's like I said, I'll get it on my to-do list for those of you wondering This is a super micro board with a Intel Xeon CPU e5 2620 at 2 gigahertz total 24 cores So that's the system. I'm running and in the beta. I had dashboard data here and now in the not beta. I don't so Let's run down some of the major change lists. They did though first thing obviously everyone notices They completely did a UI change. I think it needed a facelift I was used to the way things were but I didn't think they were great But they were how they work as they took a system that they had this interface for a long time But of course anytime you change an interface Do you you instantly divide the people who want everything to stay exactly the same? And then all the other people that go I have to have something new and fresh I kind of am the new and fresh guy. Maybe when I'm older and grayer My opinions might change but for now in my 40s I still think I like new interfaces Especially when they add to the layout and make things kind of make more sense and I believe that's what they've done with this new UI I don't have a problem with it The other big change is going to be the warden to IO cage And that's a jail system that runs within BSD They moved over to it and I can leave a link they go in a little bit more depth on the IX systems YouTube channel about why they changed it and the API interfaces and everything else related to how they script things It's a good change IO cage offers some more flexibility and hopefully will be better for package maintainers to Maintain updates and things like that. That is sometimes people complain about that though a lot of people want to run plex on here I'm going to get to a whole new series of videos on doing all the same things in the new free nasty with the new UI with The new version including a plex setup But yes, I know there's going to be slight version differences because the package maintainers are Community driven so sometimes they're a slight version behind that. It's hopefully this will help resolve some of this The cloud sync this I'm going to be doing a real in-depth video and really excited about this It doesn't just add the ability to encrypt it But they've added all kinds of bells and whistles to this. This is exciting. This is what the new interface looks like They have a lot of options they baked in so first you go to the cloud Credentials and you set up the credentials and then you go to the cloud task And it's gonna set up the task of like actually sending the data But they've got Amazon Amazon s3 backblaze b2 box drop box FTP Google cloud source Google Drive Just an HTTP push hubic mega Azure blob Storage which is cool one drive pCloud. These are a couple the other ones are neat to web day of F SFTP in Yandex so FSTP This is a nice secure file transfer protocol and we can now probably have our own in I'm going to do some experiment with Exactly how this works But I like it when you can in a lot of people do this as much as we like Storage in the cloud and things like that. It is sometimes a bit pricey And so this is an option where you maybe have two locations and you buy a bunch of drives and put a initial occasion You can set these up Of course another way to do this is replication if you have two free NAS servers But SFTP might be an option because that's what you have access to on some other server So I'm gonna be doing a whole video covering all the cloud syncing options on there I've already done a video on showing how to do the backups using PF the replication built into ZFS so the replication tasks and how it replicates. I've done a video on that I made you a follow-up one because I didn't do a restore video you do it in reverse But there's actually I guess a little bit more to it people wanted to kind of follow a process So I mean I will have a whole another series of videos on that as well One of the other kind of novel things I thought that was cool is now they support built-ins or self-encrypting drives and of course they bake this in prior to roll back to my other video Where I talk about self-encrypting drives not quite being what they said this is the same problem So people who got that story wrong and it's one of the reasons I did the YouTube video on it The self-encrypting drives is because the operating system said hey We'll just pass this job off to the drives because they got chips dedicated to it So we don't see any type of performance hit and those guys are doing it, right? Well people blame Microsoft incorrectly because they relied on that as well Unfortunately, it turns out some of the self-encrypting drives are not properly self-encrypting themselves in a very secure manner I'll leave a link to that video if you haven't seen it But this would be the same flaw if they did it because they're just passing it off I highly recommend and this is how we always set our servers up because I just don't want to have to think about what's on there You know like do I create some secure not secure? What if a piece of secure data that I care about gets on there? I don't ever want to think about that I just lock up everything. That's the easier way to do it. So we have on our server here Our day our data sets are always encrypted top-to-bottom not relying on the drives set That's a nice extra layer. I think but I prefer it to simply be encrypted using the ZFS encryption Make sure you download your backup key by the way They do a nice job of warning you that you needed on your download your backup key, which is nice I'm so happy to see that because I've had unfortunate numbers of people contact me for support I just I have to say no, they did a great job on encryption and you didn't back up your keys. I'm sorry It did exactly what it's supposed to do. There's not like a workaround for that if you're missing the keys Good luck with that. So they Having the set in there is nice being able to put the password in a drive to encrypt it But still I trust this more especially as we've learned like I said, so won't dwell on that much now There's just a ton of other tweaking and performance open ZFS is up to date So there's lots of little tweaking behind the scenes They also and I have not done any testing with it. I will try a little more I just I didn't like it at all under 11-1 maybe under 11-2. They've gotten better but they did a lot of Engineering around the virtual machine system on there and I have a use case for it and you may have seen my replies on YouTube I don't have a use case and as well the reasons I'm very busy with projects So I do things and videos based on things I have use cases for most of the time I do like having fun, but I have a limited time. Sometimes they have fun and try random ideas One of my use cases is going to be in people Directly, this is what I plan to do We're going to build an 11-2 machine and we're going to build a Linux VM to run some of the unified stuff including all the cameras So we can actually build a unified camera system or other camera systems by the way There's a couple other ones. We're looking at that you can get the software for this is not free software This is all licensed software because it's for some commercial projects, but running it inside of a Single machine that can handle all the storage because we've actually done this for larger scale ones where we build one machine To handle the cameras, but then it passes it all off to free NAS because they need 128 terabytes of storage Because of the volume of video. They have just rows and rows of storage. So this might be a fun option where we can take and do The build it all within one machine and as long as it's stable crash resistant and we can torture test it by randomly I'm plugging it and making sure nothing gets corrupted. We'd be really excited if the VMs hold up to that That's it's I'm absolutely trust in open ZFS Limited trust and how good the VM system is you know I'm just being a skeptic because we care so much about stability and it just seemed a little bit buggy when I tried using it in 11-1, but they did a lot of engineering a lot of rewriting a lot of good behind-the-scenes stuff and one of the things that they did that's important was making sure that the virtual machines and memory manager are talking back and forth because ZFS people call it a memory hog. It's not a memory hog It just doesn't let you have a bunch of free RAM that is not being in use because any memory not use is wasted memory And so ZFS will dedicate massive amounts of memory to the arc, which is the cache the active Adaptive replacement cache anyways, it's where a whole lot of memory goes that way We can cache the files and make it more efficient and when you start up a VM you are bumping into that So they've engineered it so it does it very smoothly and like I said, I'm gonna do some testing with it and learn They still have net data, which is also the reason why let me go and refresh this page I don't care much about the menu issues I mentioned before but a net data is way better tool for doing this That's why you know the graphs missing on the front page of it. Not really a huge deal It just doesn't give me enough data compared to net data, which is such a wonderful project I get pretty graphs I can dig in and go what are the discs doing now and what you know How much load are they under and all that fun stuff? So we'll go this is how much it's rating and then we can always go here Stretch it out and we can see where I had some peak issues And I can see what time I was doing it or right here when we had a peak So definitely kind of cool. I like that data. I've been a big fan of it for a while It definitely gets the job done and way easier to read than any of those basic graphs that they included There we go. This is where I was moving some VMs around for another project today So this is what it looks like when you shuffle some VMs around and duplicate them So yeah puts a little bit of heavy load on the system and in here we can actually go up There's what it looks like on the server side. Here's what the load looks like there Here's what the disc looks like. Here's what the RAM change was when we did that so on and so forth So like I said, I've been really happy with it. I haven't really had any problems. I've not done a lot with the jails I've done playing with it while it was in beta and I was in full release I'm gonna go through and test each one. You know, of course a lot of people want to run next cloud A lot of people want to run Plex so I'll be digging into those and seeing how they work and like I said go ahead and load it I really didn't have a problem I know you if you have a bunch of jails though be cautious because it there's that change and I'm not sure how well because I haven't tested this Any of the warden stuff is going to translate over. They will let you translate it But go into forms and spend some time there with some of that But I'm excited about the release excited about the FreeNAS in general. I just it's been my go-to solid project for Enterprise storage and it's it's a good system cell and I love these enhancements and the new UI Even though you may hate it leave your thoughts and comments below and go from there And if you have a bug don't just complain about it like I kind of did with the front page bug issue with the graphs file a bug report That's how these things get fixed. 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