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There is box 1: In this box I will run ESX Server. It's a hardware compatible PC with Inte VT compatible Core 2 duo processor and local SATA drive. One NIC network card. 1 Gigabyte of RAM And box 2: Where I will run 2008 Server x64 with 8gigs of RAM and where I run VMware Workstation. Inside of WMware Workstation I will run Openfiler and a Second ESX server. Also there is a VM running 2003 DC as a DNS server. Like this I'll 'save' on one more physical box on which I would otherwise installed the second ESX Server. I've posted an article before which was based on a whitepaper from Xtravirt, about how-to run ESX Server on VMware Workstation., which is explaining what to do and how to create the ESX VM.
For an Openfiler I'll be using VMware Virtual Appliance that you can download here (x86 VMware Virtual appliance). If you want another version (like x64) or ISO image just go to this url and choose the version you need. I'll be using VMware Workstation to actually run the Openfiler Virtual Machine. I know the performances will not be excellent but to test all this stuff it'll be just fine. There is some good documentation about the actual architecture of Openfiler you can have look here.
2. Start Openfiler VM
Then log In remotely via web browser to the ip address which was assigned via DHCP. You will see an image like this. Login with a "Openfiler" as a login and with "password" as a password.
3. Then you need to configure Openfiler as a iSCSI target. What's this? Basicaly that Openfiler will be acting as a server.
First create physical volume. Go to Volumes and click on the link (see image below).
You will get onto a page which looks like this one... Click on the button Create. (if you are curious you can click to see on the drop down box...)
Then Create a Volume Group. Give it some name and click the button Add Volume Group
You will then be directed to the page where you can fill the name for your iSCSI volume and also Description. You then must pull the button indicated with the slider bar to the right to specify how big the volume should be. Don't forgot to use the drop down box to select iSCSI as a type of volume.
02.) Use vSwitch0 for the test connection. If you have more than one NIC you can use another vSwitch. I had only one nic in my lab
As you can see there is a warning message saying that its Highly recommended to have separate VMKernel Port group and physical NIC. But nevermind, just go on For your lab its OK.
03.) Check the box Use this port group for Fault Tolerance logging and VMotion.
04.) Set an IP adress for the VMkernel (Just choose a free IP in the same network) and fill the Default Gateway IP adress.
06.) When you click on Properties, then you open firs the General TAB and enable the software initiator checkbox.
07.) Then click on Dynamic Discovery TAB and add your Openfiler IP adress. In my case 192.168.0.16
08.) Then go to Configuration TAB > Storage > Add Disk/LUN. Published by Vladan SEGET at www.vladan.fr 9
11.) And you can browse the Datastore, copy paste files to and from -:)
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