| Cheap (FREE) and Good SAN / iSCSI Storage - OpenFiler SAN Server |
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| Monday, 25 August 2008 00:00 |
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If you want to work / test / learn many of the VMware ESX Server advanced features, like VMotion, VMware High Availability (VMHA), and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), you should have SAN (Storage Area Network).
For my Home Lab I'm using OpenFiler. You can find a very good Step-By-Step tutorial about OpenFiler at well know Petri.co.il web site. Article by David Davis - "Use OpenFiler as your Free VMware ESX SAN Server" I just want to add one small part to this tutorial. I think it's not the best idea to use IP address from DHCP on Server, a specially on SAN :). So, I've configured my SAN to use static IP. Here is how to do that: Logon to the OpenFiler console as a root. Run "vi /etc/sysconfig/network" and make the following changes: NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=net-nas-01.admininfo.local GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 Run "vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0" and make the following changes: DEVICE=eth0 IPADDR=192.168.1.15 BOOTPROTO=static NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 ONBOOT=yes Go and modify the hosts file. To modify the hosts file run this command "vi /etc/hosts" and make sure the FQDN names for 127.0.0.1 and the static IP address are set correct. 127.0.0.1 net-nas-01.admininfo.local 192.168.1.15 net-nas-01.admininfo.local For more information go to Openfiler website |
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