New Features for Testing

[Kris Moore]

Folks,

During the ongoing march to FreeNAS 9.10.3, we wanted to request some specific testing of a few new features that have landed in the nightlies over the past few days.

• Advanced Alerting - You might notice a new "Alerts" in your system settings. This will allow you to configure your FreeNAS system to send critical notices to various third party services, including (but not limited to) Slack, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, AWS Alerts, InfluxDB, MatterMost and more. We've been beating this up internally and so far so good, but additional testing would be appreciated.
  
  
• VM - As many of you know, VM support has landed in the 9.10 nightlies. We've been using it internally for various things, including hosting Windows, Linux, and more. Please let us know if you run into any issues.
  
  
• New FreeNAS UI - This much improved interface has quickly gained new functionality, including online updating and advanced configuration knobs. This is an ongoing project and we would love to get your feedback on the current features.
  
  
• Minio S3 buckets - Backup to S3? Well, FreeNAS can now act as a target for your S3 backups, potentially saving you $$ and giving you fast local access to your data. This can be enabled and configured in the "Services" tab.

9.10.3 is currently slated for April 24th, just a few short weeks from now, so get that testing in while you can.

Thanks, and happy NAS'ing!

 

[Mlovelace]

I'll spin up a VM of 9.10.3 and kick the tires ;)

 

[Alecmascot]

I upgraded to FreeNAS-9.10-MASTER-201704060409 this morning and there is still no support for VMs on an AMD system.
I believe my cpu with the POPCNT feature should be supported according to FreeBSD documentation but the VM tab still says "unsupported".

 

[William Grzybowski]

I upgraded to FreeNAS-9.10-MASTER-201704060409 this morning and there is still no support for VMs on an AMD system.
I believe my cpu with the POPCNT feature should be supported according to FreeBSD documentation but the VM tab still says "unsupported".

I don't believe AMD in FreeBSD supports UEFI boot yet and thats all we have for now. However we will investigate further. Thanks for letting us know.

 

[Dotty]

Does anybody has screenshots of the UI? (the one based on Angular)

 

[Alecmascot]

I don't believe AMD in FreeBSD supports UEFI boot yet and thats all we have for now. However we will investigate further. Thanks for letting us know.

Please investigate further.
There must be hundreds of HP Microserver G7 users out there who would benefit.

 

[Alecmascot]

The latest nightly lets me build a VM on an HP Microserver G7.
Nice one.

 

[Snoopo]

Does anybody has screenshots of the UI? (the one based on Angular)

I have been trying the new release and I took a couple of screenshot for you.

 

[def con]

Folks,

During the ongoing march to FreeNAS 9.10.3, we wanted to request some specific testing of a few new features that have landed in the nightlies over the past few days.

• Advanced Alerting - You might notice a new "Alerts" in your system settings. This will allow you to configure your FreeNAS system to send critical notices to various third party services, including (but not limited to) Slack, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, AWS Alerts, InfluxDB, MatterMost and more. We've been beating this up internally and so far so good, but additional testing would be appreciated.
  
  
• VM - As many of you know, VM support has landed in the 9.10 nightlies. We've been using it internally for various things, including hosting Windows, Linux, and more. Please let us know if you run into any issues.
  
  
• New FreeNAS UI - This much improved interface has quickly gained new functionality, including online updating and advanced configuration knobs. This is an ongoing project and we would love to get your feedback on the current features.
  
  
• Minio S3 buckets - Backup to S3? Well, FreeNAS can now act as a target for your S3 backups, potentially saving you $$ and giving you fast local access to your data. This can be enabled and configured in the "Services" tab.

9.10.3 is currently slated for April 24th, just a few short weeks from now, so get that testing in while you can.

Thanks, and happy NAS'ing!

Very well done, I love the fact that I can switch UI's on login. This should have been done with Corral. Quick question though. Is dockers going to be added? Dockers are awesome and really expands functionality of freenas. Thanks for sharing and consider me a new Beta tester!

 

[def con]

Can we create a seperate Forum just for this new Version? Lots of people talking about it in Corral and main forums spread everywhere.

 

[def con]

I would <3 <3 <3 if freenas was able to add different storage providers like Google Drive, Google Cloud Drive, Amazon Cloud Drive etc. I got a synology box that has these features that I will miss. I'm sticking with Freenas though :)

 

[Ericloewe]

Very well done, I love the fact that I can switch UI's on login. This should have been done with Corral. Quick question though. Is dockers going to be added? Dockers are awesome and really expands functionality of freenas. Thanks for sharing and consider me a new Beta tester!

Docker integration won't be in 9.10.3, but it's planned for later.

 

[def con]

Docker integration won't be in 9.10.3, but it's planned for later.

Awesome, thanks for the quick response and appreciate all the work out into this!

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[bass_rock]

I would <3 <3 <3 if freenas was able to add different storage providers like Google Drive, Google Cloud Drive, Amazon Cloud Drive etc. I got a synology box that has these features that I will miss. I'm sticking with Freenas though :)

This would be a fantastic feature to be able to create datasets on the main host through the WEB Gui, with on the backend it using something such as RClone.

 

[pernils]

Hi ..

A trusty source of mine indicates that this performance regression FreeBsd10/11 + ZFS + Samba now seems to be on its path to be solved.
And the best of all it's possible that this patch will find it's way into 9.10.3.

If so, my self and all other end user who are using samba and with more then 10k+ files can soon move on from 9.3 (FreeBsd 9).


Kris: Is this something you can share with us ?

 

[Dotty]

I have been trying the new release and I took a couple of screenshot for you.

Look nice.
Thanks a lot !

 

[Neobright]

Really like the new UI, it would be great to see the calendar function ala Corral make some kind of appearance

 

[tfast500]

Love the VM integration but I am not getting a zvol to choose under the disk device... Do I need to have a separate zvol from my main tank? Or am I just missing something.

- EDIT: I just found another thread that was already created regarding this same issue...

 

[KrisBee]

I’m an interested home user, not an IT specialist, and installed qemu/kvm on my linux desktop as it supports nested virtualisation. I was able to create a FreeNAS Corral VM which basically worked (within the limits of known bugs) with a few simple docker containers and VMs.

Now I’ve created a VM to follow 9.10 nightlies, which as of today is at FreeNAS-9.10-MASTER-201704190613 (1ba77e4)

Can I just clarify that any VM WEBUI entries are just dummies at the moment and VMs have to be created at the cli.

From the little I know about FreeBSD, byhve is part of the base system to which these packags have been added in FreeNAS:

Code:

[root@freenas] ~# pkg info | grep hyve
grub2-bhyve-0.40  Grub-emu loader for bhyve
iohyve-0.7.7_2  bhyve manager utilizing ZFS and other FreeBSD tools
uefi-edk2-bhyve-20160704_2  UEFI-EDK2 firmware for bhyve
uefi-edk2-bhyve-csm-20160704_2 UEFI-EDK2 firmware for bhyve with CSM
vm-bhyve-1.1.5  Management system for bhyve virtual machines

So, potentially you could use byhve, iohyve , or vm-bhyve to create your VM.

Up to now, I've only made progress with using iohyve at the CLI as that is already on 9.10.2. Which is likely to be used in 9.10.3?

I don't know if it's a sane thing to do, but after some trial and error I have a boot2docker VM working using iohvye to test/run docker containers.

Have yet to work how to do the NFS mount in boot2docker ....

 

[xTitus Maximusx]

What are the CPU requirements for running VM's on FreeNAS?