found this after an AI search with brave, due to TrueNAS not cutting the mustard any longer.
and from my inital testing i like what i see, works very well
however couple of silly things please humour me as after 30 years + in IT its not often i find a new product that just works and is pleasing to the eye.
how ever as i said the silly bits,
- please have and advanced mode for users that know what they are doing with networking, ZFS disk pools and such like.
- ISCSI / NFS shares ?? do you have
- vLan on nics
- multi channel smb doesnt appear to work
- difficult to tweak via CLI as os is read only ( many newer users may not know to to make RW)
- how to make NVME cache drives on the raid array ??
- can you hide the VM image files to prevent users from messing with
hey again love it
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Welcome, and great feedback. Always good to see experienced users giving thoughtful input.
ZimaOS clearly focuses on being an appliance that just works, and from your notes it sounds like that’s coming through. Many of the points you raised are common asks from power users:
Advanced or expert mode for networking and storage would make a lot of sense. iSCSI, NFS, VLANs, SMB multichannel, NVMe cache, and better protection of VM image files are all areas where I believe the platform is still evolving. The read-only OS is intentional for stability, with the expectation that most customization lives in containers and VMs.
Out of curiosity, what specifically wasn’t cutting it for you with TrueNAS that made you look elsewhere? Understanding that comparison helps put this feedback in context.
Great to have you here, and glad to hear you’re enjoying the system overall.
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TrueNas, was initally a NAS box with jails, then when they went to scale we had kubernettes and docker, now they are ditching.
most home users want a box that works. TrueNAS is aiming at it commercial clients and becomming more of a SAN.
i understand why your OS is read only and it makes a lot of sence, are you going to keep your versions of the apps or going to use something more like https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Lissy93/portainer-templates/main/templates_v3.json which would give you more time to work on the back ground,
your VMs work well, yet you have ubuntu desktop, maybe again use something like XEN-NG templates to allow even a novice user to pull any version of common OSes without having first to download them and upload and create a ISO repo. again you need that adavnced mode that allows the hobbest and advanced user to tweak.
your docker is a bit wierd due to the readonly os i cant pull some images that i use, ie onlyoffice workspace
wget https://download.onlyoffice.com/install/workspace-install.sh
bash ./workspace-install.sh
but on the whole i have a couple of friends who will get this installed on a it will save me lots of work.
chris