Well, with the leaving of the CTO and the re-vamping of 9.10. I really think that there are conflicts between what iXSystem aims to and the market demand.
Final destination of Corral (FreeNAS 10) is hyper convergence which is one of the top buzz words now. Market demand is simpler: high performance NAS/SAN with HA, and some simple backup solution + extra things for home/small office usecases.
I remember long time ago when I read about plan for FreeNAS 10 leaving jail to switch to Docker, Docker on FreeBSD 11 is using a special Linux ABI compatibility layer not virtualization. But from the conversation here, Docker on Corral is using virtualization? that will have more overhead than jail?
Currently I have AIO system which FreeNAS Corral run under ESXi to provide the iSCSI target to everything else which is a kind of "hyper convergence". The major reasons for me to move to FreeNAS Corral:
- Higher performance from FreeBSD 11 update (ZFS + iSCSI target)
- I started to move in the last month before official release of Corral on my production server, it is what I can contribute back to this project => testing & bug report with real life situation.
- Check if it can be a final AIO for home/small business and leaving ESXi behind (within about 2 years).
Now with all of the news, I dont know if Corral will survive till end of this year (or next year) and if the moving to FreeNAS Corral is right (it is consuming more DRAM on my VM now and give less space to ZFS ARC than 9.10.2-U2 even I do not start any docker or VM)