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TrueNAS CORE may have reached the point where users that have grown to love FreeBSD will have to either migrate to SCALE, or find alternative option. Granted, it is a possibility that CORE will stay for 14, 15 and beyond, but bear with me. And I will also add that it will probably be supported until IX has sufficient reason to EOL it. This will hopefully not happen, but if it does it seems we still have 2+ years of support for the 13 series. Anyways, I don't want this thread to be a discussion about that. I want to gain insight into what users are pursuing, and what works well.
Here are some options I have found.
1. OmniOS + napp-it (sadly napp-it isn't supported on stock FreeBSD)
2. XigmaNAS (FreeBSD based, with less options and no real jail management software)
3. Vanilla FreeBSD + Webmin + zfsmanager (excellent UI but the module seems to be broken or something)
4. Vanilla FreeBSD (requires manual zfs/pool management from cli)
5. ClonOS (looks very promising, includes CBSD jail management + VM management, but lacks a whole lot when it comes to disk management)
I am leaning towards 4 as it allows the simplest way to manage jails. 3 Would work as well, as it includes SMART disk status and some other handy tools that are easily managed with the WEBUI.
Thoughts are welcome.
My goal is to aquire some alternaitve in a single thread for others to be able to choose from.
Here are some options I have found.
1. OmniOS + napp-it (sadly napp-it isn't supported on stock FreeBSD)
2. XigmaNAS (FreeBSD based, with less options and no real jail management software)
3. Vanilla FreeBSD + Webmin + zfsmanager (excellent UI but the module seems to be broken or something)
4. Vanilla FreeBSD (requires manual zfs/pool management from cli)
5. ClonOS (looks very promising, includes CBSD jail management + VM management, but lacks a whole lot when it comes to disk management)
I am leaning towards 4 as it allows the simplest way to manage jails. 3 Would work as well, as it includes SMART disk status and some other handy tools that are easily managed with the WEBUI.
Thoughts are welcome.
My goal is to aquire some alternaitve in a single thread for others to be able to choose from.
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