Maybe it doesn't. I had all of about 5 minutes to decide if I wanted to futz around with OpenFiler or FreeNAS, and in that article I linked it had this in the conclusions:
"If you want your VMware ESX servers to have shared storage so that you can VMotion then you have to use OpenFiler and not Freenas" And because I believe everything I read on the interwebz, that's what I went with. It's all rather academic anyway, as I won't be getting the VCenter licenses either... I'll just content myself to use it at work. J -sc From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 10:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OpenFiler testing... any best practices? Lord no. If I had the funds for that kind of setup, I'd have funds for my own PS5000! In between messages, your comment on Vmotion being supported got me curious, so I went to check. How can Vmotion be supported without SCSI-3 reservations? This forum thread suggests that the support is not there, and when it is available in OpenFiler it will be a paid plugin. The last post is as of 11/11/2009. On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote: Here's one of the articles I saw on it: http://www.r71.nl/index.php/kb/technical/206-vmware-and-nas-freenas-or-o penfiler Do you have a vMotion enabled home setup? If so, consider me envious. ) -sc From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 9:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OpenFiler testing... any best practices? That is good to know, I'll keep it in mind as I begin developing my home environment... On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote: So far I have them that way, simply because in testing that was the easiest, and I don't have a Virtual Center setup that allows for vMotion anyway L. However, I opted for OpenFiler over the easier-to-setup FreeNAS because recent reports suggest that vMotion on OpenFiler is now supported, hence I assume the reservation issue may be resolved. Thanks Jonathan. -sc From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 9:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OpenFiler testing... any best practices? I would suggest that the VM's accessed by each host be on separate LUN's. OpenFiler, as of the this past may did not support SCSI-3 reservations which can wreak some havoc with multiple ESXi hosts accessing one lun. I used it in production, successfully for over a year due to a necessity of inheriting an ill-conceived budget from my predecessor and enduring a probationary period of proving myself and my methodology to the firm. The situation I Was using it in was one VM host with three guests all of which were not at the time considered mission critical. On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote: Doing some testing with OpenFiler for iSCSI SAN testing. I'm presenting LUN's via GigE links to my ESXi boxen hosting Win2K3 and Win2K8 VM's. So far I'm pretty impressed... and the price is right for a home network. Anybody played with it and/or have any pointers to best practices or performances considerations? One of the things I'm wondering about particularly is if there's any advantages to using the Windows iSCSI initiator as opposed to letting ESXi own the LUNs and present the storage as local volumes to the Win boxen. Thanks. -sc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
