Hi, I know asking for Unraid alternatives is an open ended question, but I'm interested in opinions.
Over the years I've switched from hardware RAID, and Hyper-V and VM's, to Docker in an Ubuntu VM on Hyper-V, to IT mode HBA's and Unraid.
Now I'm getting frustrated with poor SMB performance caused by Unraid's FUSE, and the fragile cache drive caused by BTRFS, and the appeal of the Unraid app store has worn thin, as I can do more with docker compose or Portainer.
If I could get native ZFS support in Unraid, that would be pretty sweet, but the ZFS plugin is far from native.
An alternative is a Proxmox UX for VM management, and a FreeNAS UX for ZFS and share management, and a Portainer UX for Docker management.
I understand the Docker in VM solutions (no Docker on BSD) all use NFS for storage access, but I want direct mapped storage to Docker, unless there is some magic I don't know about that gives localhost NFS similar performance to SAS3.
And did I mention I'd like all this in one actively well maintained distribution.
Options and opinions?
Over the years I've switched from hardware RAID, and Hyper-V and VM's, to Docker in an Ubuntu VM on Hyper-V, to IT mode HBA's and Unraid.
Now I'm getting frustrated with poor SMB performance caused by Unraid's FUSE, and the fragile cache drive caused by BTRFS, and the appeal of the Unraid app store has worn thin, as I can do more with docker compose or Portainer.
If I could get native ZFS support in Unraid, that would be pretty sweet, but the ZFS plugin is far from native.
An alternative is a Proxmox UX for VM management, and a FreeNAS UX for ZFS and share management, and a Portainer UX for Docker management.
I understand the Docker in VM solutions (no Docker on BSD) all use NFS for storage access, but I want direct mapped storage to Docker, unless there is some magic I don't know about that gives localhost NFS similar performance to SAS3.
And did I mention I'd like all this in one actively well maintained distribution.
Options and opinions?