(Videos) ZFS Pools + Datasets & Snapshots Overview

[madcao]

Hey everyone! I’m Cao (aka madcao) and I’m the Visual Media Specialist over here at iXsystems. I was talking to JoshDW19 and we thought it’d be a good idea to share our tutorials here on the Forums so that everyone can benefit from the information. If you have any questions, comments, or ideas for new videos, let me know! We’ll be posting new videos and tutorials regularly here in the announcements section.

ZFS Pools Overview

Datasets & Snapshots

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[Basil Hendroff]

Nicely done! A couple of thoughts though.

1. I wonder if there should be something in the Resources section for IX videos?
2. The videos are for the previous version 11.2 of FreeNAS. There are reasonably significant look and feel changes in the 11.3 GUI that may deter some potential new users watching the videos from adopting FreeNAS. This, of course, is going to be an ongoing issue as FreeNAS (ahem (cough)... TrueNAS CORE) evolves.

Replication services are greatly enhanced in 11.3, but there's a paucity of detail on it as suggested in this thread and other threads. I wonder if a video on 11.3 replication might be useful?

 

[madcao]

@Basil Hendroff appreciate your feedback! The Resources section seems like a good idea, I'll look into it.
Yes, some of these videos are on the 11.2 GUI as they were made about a year ago, but the information still applies to current versions. We'll eventually overhaul most of them when TrueNAS CORE is up and running.
We can definitely add Replications to queue for upcoming tutorials. Once again thanks for your comments!