FreeNAS 11.1 U7

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Hi,

Can someone with some FreeBSD skills help me update my plex server.

Problem (long story time):

A few months ago my server was close to full, less than 20% left, I had 2 more hdds left for spares so I decided to add them, bad idea, I had to redo the raidz1 array, move all the data (12Tb) on other hdds, reinstall freenas etc.

In the past I used a win10 vm in freenas but its not that stable, so I decided to install first Vmware ESXI, install FreeNAS and win10 as a vm. Much more stable, for the windows install, bad news for FreeNAS.

I only have 3 plugins in FreeNAS - Sonarr, Plex Media Server and Transmission

I started with the latest version of FreeNAS 11.2 U5 - problems - slow transfers speeds, high cpu usage, plex would not load metadata for my library, sonarr had problems getting to the files etc. (unstable experience).

Deleted 11.2 U5 and installed 11.1 U7 - last version of 11.1. Everything was good except one plugin PLEX.

 

Skip here for problem:

 

I can't install plex from main menu. I get [MiddlewareError: Failed to download http://download.freenas.org/plugins/9/x64: HTTP Error 404: Not Found] Exception Location:    ./freenasUI/plugins/plugin.py in download, line 120

I found a tutorial to manually create a jail and install plex - doesn't work - pkg install plexmediaserver works, but something is missing ( service doesn't start, plex folder with logs is missing) This

Downloaded plex.pbi from the FreeNAS website. Installed, works but it's version plexmediaserver-1.9.6.4429-amd64, update fails, manually trying to update with mstinaff/PMS_Updater works, it reports as latest version. Plex and FreeNAS still report version as 1.9.6.4429.

 

My Roku doesn't want to connect to Plex because the version is too old.

 

P.S. I have 12Tb of data, I can't switch freenas versions unless I backup. 

       11.2 feels slow, high cpu usage

 

Any help?

 

Rig- CPU - Intel i7-6700K

        RAM - 24GB DDR4 (2x8+2x4)

        PCIE x4 10 sata3 card 

        8 x 4Tb Seagate HDD - Raid Z1

        120Gb SSD storage for EXSI (win10 vm)

        8Gb SD card for FreeNAS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Windows7ge]

FreeNAS uses Bhyve as a hypervisor. It's not good.

 

It's not recommended to run FreeNAS in a VM. It causes problems.

 

To extend a ZFS volume you need to append datasets. Basically create a new pool and then append it onto the previous pool. Single disk addition still isn't available on ZFS.

 

I haven't used Plex before but it sounds like the repository it's searching for plex in either can't be found or isn't available. May want to research that 404 error.

 

I can't explain the high CPU usage. I have 11.2-U7 and I've been using FreeNAS for a few years now (since 9.3.1) I've dealt with my fair share of problems but unusually high CPU utilization isn't one of them. It should be noted ZFS isn't the fastest file system but if you're on a 1Gbit network and are using at least 3 disks you should be maxing out gigabit.