Configure FreeNAS iSCSI and VMWare ESXi (w/AUDIO!)

[marleycharkwick]

Excellent helped me move on really quickly

[sweetypie000]

I have ESX 4.1 running off a thumbdrive, I have a blank 160 GB hdd in one of the bays and I want to run FreeNas and use all th 160GB (or close to it) as storage, I can't work it out !

also, I do have another HDD in the system which is being used for other VM's such as Ubuntu and Win 2008

any tips ? I cant seem to allocate more than a small proportion of the drive to FreeNAS ! driving me nuts

[fivefishdiy]

THANK YOU!

[knutkj]

Thanks!

[PaulNaama]

wow thats exactly... ___well almost exactly___ what i was looking for. if you could show how to make the drives on the esxi host turn into RAID0 that would be wonderful.

[sportbtye]

Great video. Thanks for posting!

[anilm2010]

Gr8 Video! Thanks

[aaronlv]

Refer to the phrase, "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth!"

[megahyperion]

Uggg 4 min in i just cant take it any more. Damnit i wanted to see this too

[megahyperion]

Wow could u get a mouse that clicks any louder or r u just slappin it like a monkey? Seriously it blows me mind how oblivious people are to the annoying things in their videos as if they never even bother to review them. What could be a great tutorial is ruined and frustrating to view.

[megahyperion]

Wow could you get a mouse that clicls a

[The64BitGeek]

I know you made this video 1 year ago and its' for an old version of FreeNAS.

It looks very different in FreeNAS 8.0. I tried to follow a guide on setting up iSCSI in FreeNAS 8.0 but I wasn't able to get it to work. Have you tried FreeNAS 8.0?

[U4115UCK]

@The64BitGeek

ive exactly the same problem, unfortunately i dont have much experience with Linux, did you find some more information in the mean time ?

thanks in advance

Stephan

[The64BitGeek]

@U4115UCK

No, unfortunately not.

[learn2smile]

Thanks for the tutorial. I recently was doing the same thing but it was not working. I did not know esxi required the interface turned on.

[nikhilsayzhi]

Thanks for the great tutorial!! I'm facing one problem though, the software iSCSI won't show up on my vClient. I'm running ESXi 4.1 on Workstation 7. I can ping the ESXi from the FreeNAS console but not the other way. I'm a vmware/storage novice. Would appreciate any advise on where I'm going wrong. Thanks again.

[tech1cc]

This was a great video, searched the net for a long time and following this step by step, i have been able to add several datastores to ESXi 4.1 Thanks!

[xfranjavierx]

ME 2!

[hasanhenry]

THANK YOU!! IMMA SUCK YO DICK

[mrholverson]

Great to hear rkashifj, I was going to suggest you start over from the beginning.

[rkashifj]

I had formated the File system of my HDD to UFS and remount it to FreeNAS and then I configure iSCSI. Now every thing is working Fine. :)

[rkashifj]

Dear Mr. Holverson, On adding Target's - LUN and apply setting I'm getting following error.

Error: The changes could not be applied (error code 1).

[SchwizzZer]

In the meantime I played around with different set-ups as ZFS, SW raid, iSCSI, NFS ... Following issues I found:

- When creating an ZFS volume it is not possible to share the whole volume as iSCSI target, so a file has to be chosen. It seems to be a bug.

- I have two ESXi set-ups. On reaches 3 MBit/s and the other one more than 20 MBit/s, even though latter consists of old hardware. I read that it might be a NIC issue (Broadcom to perform badly on ESXi servers).

Some comments on that?

[smitharbn]

Thanks a lot for the tutorial, great

[iApna]

I am getting 100Mbps performance copying large files using iSCSI. 10x the performance of CIFS. Thanks for the clip!!

[SchwizzZer]

Thank you for this guided tutorial!

Could somebody tell me what's the deal between "device" and "file" in relation to iSCSI?

ZFS, File, etc. what to choose?

In all tutorials I found in the web, people are creating a file with limited size (7 GB e.g.). What if I have two 500 GB harddiscs, create a software raid 1 and want to provide the whole volume as iSCSI extend?

[mgagna]

@SchwizzZer you can share the whole volumen. When you create the target choose volume in Type combo.

[KA733M]

Good Tutorial... Thanks alot

[m0rthaus]

Excellent tutorial, thanks!

By the way, I get about double the performance using iSCSI instead of NFS to share my RAID 1 software array from FreeNAS to ESXi, so I'm really glad I tried it =)

[kblake71]

Worked great!! Thanks for this!!

[learnanddeliver]

Thank you very much for this detailed tutorial. I followed it step-by-step, and was able to add the storage to the datastores. thanks again.

I was wondering how would I create NFS volume

[gs83toyz]

Great tutorial. Love both FreeNAS and VMware.

[HairyTwater69]

Excellent video! Thanks for the info...just started building my Free NAS box earlier tonight and wasn't quite sure on the iscsi method.

[oompa10]

Looks neat