Migrated from TrueNAS to vanilla Debian

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…and FreeNAS used to have such a wizard too. It went away, IIRC, with the introduction of the “new UI” in the FreeNAS 11 series. As I recall, it was pretty limited, but included some basic system configuration (e.g., time zone), creation of a pool, a share, and probably a user.

Wait a moment, I have a FreeNAS 9.10 ISO on my Proxmox host; let’s take a look.

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…and directory services, which I didn’t grab a screen shot of. If you don’t configure a directory service and just click Next, it seems to break.

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Since napp-it cs (= a quite nice web UI/frontend for storage management, that supports multiple instances, various platforms etc.) exists there is no reason to avoid proxmox, if virtualisation is required. They keep OpenZFS modules current too. For pure storage … well … it depends … probably Core/zVault.

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A nice UI for the late 1990s, I guess…

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I grew up in the 70ies, so it’s “evil shit” for the bearded … (and does it’s job reliably … i could even trace/debug scripts …)

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I care less about looks and more about the underlying functionality. Ie is the OpenZFS stack current, is the OS current, does it have drivers for whatever cards, peripherals, motherboards, and CPUs I’m contemplating putting in?

I was perfectly content with the UI from FreeNAS 11. But I don’t think freenas 11 supported sVDEVs, for example. Thanks to you, I even had a SSL protected GUI in 12 or 13? :grinning:

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Sorry what ?!!
I just installed truenas for the first time a few month ago, and used the container mode to create some for Network services and nextcloud. You are saying they are switching the system again even though LXC is standard ?!

Where did you see this info ?

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The podcast, and several posts here and in general chat of this forum

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But it’s Incus that iX are ripping out, not LXCs generally, right?

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Yep, according to what we know only the backend switches from incus to libvirt, and apparently all incus lxcs will automatically migrate over

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Yeah, I mean… Not great, not terrible…

Tried to read some stuff on migrating to Inucs, and I understand why some people said that IX should have first worked on incus integration for LXC.

As long as the migration works, I would say it is ok. The advantage of using the Incus LXC, is that you could migrate them to Proxmox later.

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But they’re still LXCs. Proxmox doesn’t use Incus either.

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I think during the reading of all of this, I got a bit confused…