I ma not 100% sure if these points were covered before:
- Implement a mobile application. I know there is a really good one out there, handmade by one developer. But apps for smartphones areimportant these days. You can view the health status, and get push notifications if something went wrong. I would like to see, if you want to implement something, that you will get in touch with the developer, as he has already made a great piece of software!
- Add Smart and a general HDD overview/health status at on the status page
- Add HA-Cluster option like Gluster FS
- or add a Master/Slave where you can synchronize datasets like with snapshot replication, but without errors/warning if the slave is not reachable - or something like that
- Add option to disable/enable snapshot replication with just one click for multiple jobs
- Document how we can handle that FreeNAS will not be able to connect to the internet, any VM can.
And last but not least: The new GUI. Seriously, this will be an enterprise product. What the new GUI offers is a lot of gadgetry where its not needed in any case. Look at old GUI. It it offering a great overview, no wasted space, not that much of all the white spaces, and no need to scroll. I had a look to the beta UI on my testservers and ouch - the overview for filling informations is - sorry- a piece of shizzl. You cannot really see where a field is optional or not, and also not where it ends. I mean in the old GUI you had a good look/overview which fields are required, what to add and so on. Did you ever have a look at Enterprise GUIs? There are specific needs for Enterprise customers, and one of this are no animations, buttons which could lead to missclicks and it needs to be intuitiv. No need for fiddling around with hidden features or not identifyable fields. There is a reason why Qnap and Synology can sell so much units, because the GUI is great.
But this is another market, just consumer.
FreeNAS will ever be a product for people like me, understanding whats happening in the background, pay some more expensive enterprise gear, but have great features.
But what I sometimes really miss - and yes this is a little bit whiny - the easyness of adding more features. Just add Emby without finding out that you are running on FN 11.1 but warden is on 11.0, which realates to problems. Then making the step to iocage. Again reading documentation, trying things, and get other issues. This is sometimes frustrating, but this is something I knew before I made the step to FreeNAS. Now VMs can solve some problems...
Just want to mention that with a more intuitiv GUI could lead to have more people who are not that "tekky".
- Justmytwocents