Running FreeNAS on Vmware ESX and VMware Workstation

My previous test about running OpenFiler as iSCSI target for VMware ESX on my desktop working well. As part of my on going testing with VMware ESX Server, I tested running FreeNAS version 0.686 on my VMware ESX version 3.01 and VMware Workstation 6.

FreeNAS is a free NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server, supporting: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, AFP, RSYNC, iSCSI protocols, S.M.A.R.T., local user authentication, Software RAID (0,1,5) with a Full WEB configuration interface. FreeNAS takes less than 32MB once installed on Compact Flash, hard drive or USB key.

Basically the following guide is pretty straight forward if you already know VMwara ESX or VMware Workstation.

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January 24, 2008 · Filed Under How's To, VMware

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How to install and configure NTP on VMware ESX host

The following article will guide you ‘how to install and configure NTP on VMware ESX host’

1. SSH on to VMware ESX host service console as the root user
2. Make a backup copy of existing files.
[root@esxhost]#cp /etc/ntp.conf /etc/ntp.conf.orig
[root@esxhost]#cp /etc/ntp/step-tickers etc/ntp/step-tickers.orig

3. Edit /etc/ntp.conf
[root@esxhost]#vi /etc/ntp.conf
#Insert the following details as example below:
restrict ntp1.planetmy.com kod nomodify notrap server
restrict ntp2.planetmy.com kod nomodify notrap server
server ntp1.planetmy.com
server ntp2.planetmy.com
driftfile /var/lib/ntp/drift
authenticate yes

Please refer to here for a full description of these access control commands. The driftfile line indicates the name of the file where the value for the system’s clock drift (frequency error) is stored. For a more complete definition of driftfile, see here.

4. Edit /etc/ntp/step-tickers
[root@esxhost]#vi /etc/ntp/step-tickers
#Insert the following ntp server as example below:
ntp1.planetmy.com
ntp1.planetmy.com

5. Edit /etc/hosts
[root@esxhost]#vi /etc/hosts
#Insert the following details as example below:
10.10.10.1 ntp1.planetmy.com ntp1
10.10.10.2 ntp2.planetmy.com ntp2

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January 17, 2008 · Filed Under How's To, VMware

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Running VMware ESX 3.5 in VMware Workstation 6

VMware ESX 3.5 was released some times ago.

Yesterday I have a time download a latest VMware ESX 3.5 and I have installed VMware ESX 3.5 in Workstation 6.

As usual, I believe this shouldn't be any problem for me. The installation go smooth but when I want to start the VMware ESX 3.5, it took me more than half day to get it up. Again, I'm still having a problem with login, networking problem, and etc as you can see from as image attached.

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January 5, 2008 · Filed Under VMware

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ESX Host Currently Has No Management Network Redundancy Error

After upgraded to virtual center version 2.5 recently, I found an error message "host ESXhostname currently has no management network redundancy" when I tried to create a new cluster with 2 ESX hosts.

My test setup has one service console & one VMkernel connected to vswitch0 with single network card for both ESX host. The funny part is the problem only happen in one of the ESX host instead of both. I believe somehow this is due to my network design/setup in my test environment.

Again the similar error posted in VMware Communities forum solved my problem.

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January 3, 2008 · Filed Under Tips, VMware

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VMware ESX NO VMkernel Modules Found Error

My development VMware ESX box crashed early this morning with the error message "No VMkernel modules found" during server booting up. I'm not sure what I did last step and after reboot, the system show the error message.

However, I can still login as root without any problem and I noticed my network details are gone.