I'm SOOOO close to switching to unRAID. Currently I have my "compute" layer, which is an ESXi 6.0 server (Xeon-D 1540 - 32GB ECC RAM and a 500GB SSD) and my "storage" layer - Synology DS1512+ with 12TB. I'm looking to combine those two with unRAID. Some items give me pause however.
1. Are there plans to implement a GUI level rsync/backup feature? (yes I know I can do this all via CLI, but I'm just thinking from a simplicity standpoint) Isn't the goal the market this more towards the users that are buying the NAS boxes?
2. App/Docker catalog. It's pretty simple to point unRAID to a URL and install a docker app. Was very impressed with the testing I did. Are there plans to make a catalog of either community or "Lime-Technology" approved applications/docker? Something browse-able with a brief description of the app and one click in install (coming from a synology so this is just what I'm used to)
3. with Docker apps, are they limited on resources? (IE like ESXi I assume so many cores and so much ram to a VM) not a huge deal as I don't think Plex would run away with resources or anything.
4. Snapshot capability - I believe this is possible with BTRFs
5. Task scheduler - (for snapshot / backup jobs mentioned above)
6. OSX Time machine backup targets? Is this possible? Looked like it was a workaround via CLI that might require tinkering. I just don't want something that will "break" every subsequent unRAID upgrade and require tinkering to get it working again.
Again, obviously I know that there are workarounds for some of these items. I'm comfortable doing some CLI stuff, again, I'm also asking thinking of family members and setting up these devices vs a NAS box but I NEED to keep it simple.
unRAID so far seems like a great product and am impressed with the amount of features it offers after a relatively short amount of development time. I look forward to seeing it's growth in the future!
Appreciate anybody's input and thoughts.