The awesome sauce of 11.2!

[Binary Buddha]

#lie

Anybody know where I can get 9.10?

<RANT>
11.2 is clearly still in it's BETA stage. So many issues... OMG...

The biggest one that one would think would be quite simple is being able to set Static IPs and different MACs to Jails and the Docker Host VM. It's pretty much at the point where it'd be easier to just ditch the Plugins and Docker Host VM and just spin up an old fashioned linux VM to do all the cool stuff. At that point, might as well switch over to NAS4Free(XigmaNAS).
</RANT>

 

[garm]

11.2 isn’t released yet.. but having said that, my 12 odd jails with close to 30 applications and services running is working just fine on 11.2 RC2. Anything you can’t do in the UI for jails can be set manually thanks to iocage.

iX is in a bad place but they are pulling themselves out, threatening to use a different software is either attention seeking or an ineffective way to push change..

 

[Binary Buddha]

...threatening to use a different software is either attention seeking ...

You did notice the RANT tags right? That was the whole point.

To be more civil...

I am significantly perturbed in quality of the product that available from the site. The reason is because I just recommended to Government Planners to utilize iXsystems products over NetApp. Now, I'm going to look like an idiot for trusting that version 11 is greater or equal to productivity and efficiency of the now unsupported 9.10.

Also to retort with information on how to address the stated issues would more effectively alleviate my opinion and perspective. Yeah, you can do things manually with IOCAGE... but per 9.10 experience, if the Web UI won't allow you to do something then FreeNAS states you probably shouldn't do it. And the FreeNAS IOCAGE utilization documentation is not exactly abundant nor clear. Do you see documentation stating on how to set a static IP and a MAC address? Granted, my vocabulary used to Google it might not be the best.

 

[danb35]

Anybody know where I can get 9.10?

Sure, download.freenas.org. You can get anything back to 8.3.something there.

if the Web UI won't allow you to do something then FreeNAS states you probably shouldn't do it.

iocage is somewhat of an exception in this regard.

Do you see documentation stating on how to set a static IP and a MAC address?

Don't know about a MAC address, but static IPs for jails are trivial:

Code:

iocage create --name "jailname" -r 11.2-RELEASE --ip4_addr="vnet0|xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xx" --defaultrouter="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"

 

[garm]

And the FreeNAS IOCAGE utilization documentation is not exactly abundant nor clear. Do you see documentation stating on how to set a static IP and a MAC address? Granted, my vocabulary used to Google it might not be the best.

Im the first to say things aren’t optimal, but everything is a shade of gray. I would recommend FreeNAS in a heartbeat. But not something that isn’t released yet.. nore would I recommend a new product with new features or overhauled before its been field tested.

The manual for iocage is built into FreeNAS man iocage.

Yes, traditionally FreeNAS has a single source for configuration. But this is not the case any more as the UI is only an API front end for iocage.

 

[colmconn]

Code:

iocage create --name "jailname" -r 11.2-RELEASE --ip4_addr="vnet0|xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xx" --defaultrouter="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"

MACs can be assigned to jails manually (rather than letting iocage generate them randomly) with a simple modification of your command:

Code:

iocage create --name "jailname" -r 11.2-RELEASE --ip4_addr="vnet0|xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xx" --defaultrouter="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" vnet0_mac="588F8446FC00,588F8446FC01"

MACs should be specified with no characters (e.g., :, -) between octets. The 11.2 documentation for this is currently lacking and a ticket is open to have it fixed. For vnet interfaces, a pair of MACs is required: one for each of the epair0a and epair0b interfaces.