FreeNAS 10

[DrJohnZoidberg]

I'm really impressed with what the FreeNAS guys are doing with FreeNAS 10. I'm currently running beta 2 on a non-critical box and I'm really liking what I see so far (although it is still a bit rough around the edges).

http://www.freenas.org/blog/start-holidays-off-freenas-10-beta-2/

Design Goals
The first thing you need to know about FreeNAS 10, particularly if you’ve used FreeNAS 9, is that 10 is fully asynchronous. A user can log in, submit a bunch of tasks, and then log out again without having to wait until each and every task completes. Multiple users also can log in simultaneously and submit tasks, and if one user attempts to delete or modify something another user is working on, they both will receive a task notification that says the attempt failed (a later release of FreeNAS will improve this).
The second thing you need to know about FreeNAS 10 is that it’s designed to maximize situational awareness when using either the CLI or the GUI. Unlike FreeNAS 9, the user is told about things in real-time as soon as they happen, via alerts or task notifications, and the UI also updates itself dynamically as the hardware / software environment changes in various ways. What you’ll see in BETA2 is the start of an ongoing and ever-expanding effort to make what FreeNAS is doing transparent and informative!
The third thing you need to know about FreeNAS 10 is that it includes the bhyve hypervisor and can host and manage Virtual Machines and Docker containers. We have leveraged these capabilities in some interesting ways within FreeNAS itself and plan to leverage it more in the future (more on this later in the post).

Here is also a cool presentation and demo on their goals for FreeNAS 10:

[video=youtube;W0hrlsIVst0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0hrlsIVst0[/video]

 

[Mr Scratch]

Holy balls FreeNAS looks so much nicer now.

 

[Thor]

Mother of noodle!!

 

[FoXtroT]

Very, very sexy

 

[garyc]

Upgrade time.