FreeNAS Plugins Not Showing Up

[Creekwater X]

FreeNAS-11.1-U5

2 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz

48 GB ECC DDR3

Cisco UCS c210 m2 

 

So I started up my server rack again now that I have more time and the setup went fine and I can transfer files in and out of FreeNAS without issue. The issue is that when I went to put the Plex plugin in the plugin tab of FreeNAS it wouldn't show anything there. 

https://www.ixsystems.com/documentation/freenas/9.3/freenas_plugins.html

I looked there and it said that the server had to have an internet connection and I confirmed it could ping 8.8.8.8 and set name servers as 8.8.8.8   8.8.4.4  and 1.1.1.1 

plexmediaserver-1.12.2.4929-amd64.pbi

I also attempted uploading this (could be the wrong one of course) to the plugins tab which it did load and said it completed successfully but afterwards it said no entries found in the plugins tab.

 

Kinda frustrated right now to be honest lol if someone has an idea of something I could try it would be much appreciated.

 

[LIGISTX]

So, I have never had an issue with standard plugins themselves, but custom jails and even cron jobs in my plex jail became such an issue for me on 11.x that I gave up completely and virtualized freenas and some debian VM/s next to it to handle things such as plex; basically I moved my jails to VM's, all under ESXi.

 

So, obviously, this isn't an option for everyone, and it can be a bit of a pain and require some new hardware (if you already have an HBA for your data drives, you should be fine) but it did work out extremely well as it breaks the need for the use of freenas jails which can be annoying at best, totally non-op at worst.

 

GREAT thread on freenas forum about it here: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/build-report-node-304-x10sdv-tln4f-esxi-freenas-aio.57116/page-2

 

But, to answer your initial question, I don't know what would be wrong, and possibly best to post in freenas forum as they have pretty extensive freenas knowledge.

[dalekphalm]

I've never had particularly good luck with the Plex Plugin on FreeNAS, nor with using a manually created Plex Jail.

 

I ended up doing something similar to @LIGISTX. I wiped my server, installed ESXi as the bare metal Operating System (Type 1 Hypervisor), and virtualized FreeNAS completely (W/ PCIe Passthrough so that my Drive array has direct access). I then spun up a Windows Server VM, and I run Plex separately on that VM.

[Creekwater X]

On 1/12/2019 at 9:20 AM, dalekphalm said:

I've never had particularly good luck with the Plex Plugin on FreeNAS, nor with using a manually created Plex Jail.

 

I ended up doing something similar to @LIGISTX. I wiped my server, installed ESXi as the bare metal Operating System (Type 1 Hypervisor), and virtualized FreeNAS completely (W/ PCIe Passthrough so that my Drive array has direct access). I then spun up a Windows Server VM, and I run Plex separately on that VM.

Ya ended up scrapping freenas and running both file storage and plex off a ubuntu instance in esxi. Works like a charm :)