Openfiler iSCSI Demo

[rahopkinson]

Thanks for the extremely helpful video. I just downloaded and installed v2.3, and while a couple of the screens have moved, the concepts still apply.

[tuanjello]

no, thanks to you

[RonanTheConqueror]

Helpful tutorial on configuring iSCSI with OpenFiler and Microsoft iSCSI Initialiser. However, this may not the full story; there are some crucial configuration steps missing or perhaps changed since the version on which this tutorial is presented. Still very worthwhile.

[zforce69]

Cool, thanks for taking the time to do this.

[zmanpcxp]

this demo was very helpful, good job

[jon780]

How are you using this for DRS or HA? The Linux iSCSI Enterprise Target (IETd) that ships with openfiler doesn't allow multiple initiators to a single iSCSI target, so there's no way to share the space. Also you'd have to configure the VMWare ESX host, not the guests, with the iSCSI LUN you created on openfiler, then create a VMFS volume to store the VMware Guest images.

[ffssaundie]

Excellent, thank you sire.

[rootus1]

Which version of Open filer is this?

[BMOCroc]

this will come in handy in the future :)

[jonnytcarryduff]

Fantastic bit of info!

[a4one]

Good job bocchrj!!!!!

You helped clear out the problem I have been encountering on this setup.

Thanks a lot.

[chatbox]

Some people are running to the problem of "No existing physical volumes" in Volume Group Management even when a physical volume has already been partitioned.

The solution is simple. Get into the shell prompt and execute "pvcreate" in the form of, for example "pvcreate /dev/sdb1" if /dev/sdb1 is the new partition. This command basically initialize the physical partition to be used with LVM.

Now go back to the Web Interface to continue. (This happens on OpenFiler 2.2 VM).

[yrojjory]

Thanks so much for this. I've been heavily researching iSCSI for the past couple days and had found OpenFiler yesterday. I couldn't figure out how exactly one determined the share's filesystem and whether it could be HFS+ for use with my Pro Tools system, but your screencast has made it clear that it should work.

Thanks again!

[nothsa2k]

Very easy and helpful introduction to iSCSI with Openfiler. Thanks!

[cocomojo]

sweet! thanks.