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Openfiler posted: Jun 5, 2006 12:32 AM

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Re: Openfiler

1. Jun 26, 2006 2:04 PM

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wasletteam

9 posts since
Feb 3, 2006

Very good appliance, and iscsi work pretty well with esx 3.
Great job dude
BTW, Vmtools are not install so be carefull when power off
Nic is by default vlance, you ca change it to e1000, just change the vmx with - ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"
and kudzu will do the rest at the next reboot.

Ron

Re: Openfiler

2. Jun 27, 2006 2:44 PM

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wasletteam

9 posts since
Feb 3, 2006

oups, openfiler only work with the first iscsi volune that you assign to esx3, the other will be wrong recognize with the same capacity has the first one, of course not usable. have try (esxcfg-swiscsi -k) (esxcfg-swiscsi -e) and reboot but with no success. grrrrrr

Re: Openfiler

3. Jul 10, 2006 7:47 PM

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asg2ki

19 posts since
Jul 2, 2006

You must change the LUN number for each iSCSI target created by OpenFiler. For now this can be done manually by editing the /etc/ietd.conf file. Just put a different LUN number for each volume like 0, 1, 2 etc. and restart the iSCSI service. Be carefull when you create additional iSCSI volumes as this will reset all the LUNS to 0.

Re: Openfiler

4. Aug 18, 2006 11:55 AM

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bkensil@wnfne…

14 posts since
Jul 5, 2006

Has anyone discovered any replication for Openfiler? I want to replicate the array to another location and do not want to use Host based replication.

Re: Openfiler

5. Sep 27, 2006 5:56 AM

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Smeagol

83 posts since
Jul 7, 2005

http://www.linux-ha.org/DRBD/FAQ#head-8999e0b8efdaeb1b88f14e05f10b29c853563d11

Re: Openfiler

6. Nov 29, 2006 2:52 PM

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mdineen

1 posts since
Nov 29, 2006

We downloaded this VM and loaded it on our SAN. We browsed to the VMX file and added it to the inventory but it says "invalid" in the ESX inventory. Any help?

Re: Openfiler

7. Nov 29, 2006 7:01 PM

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Ken.Cline

5,146 posts since
Jul 7, 2004

The VM was built for Player - did you import it for use with ESX?

vmkfstools -i

Re: Openfiler

8. Dec 22, 2006 10:04 AM

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koenvw

1 posts since
Dec 22, 2006

There seems to be a problem with the download (via bittorrent).

The file seems to be corrupt.

I've tried downloading it twice already.

Re: Openfiler

9. Dec 31, 2006 10:29 AM

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rwprice

1 posts since
Jul 6, 2006

Is anyone using the OpenFiler (virtual or not) in a production environment? This looks promising for program storage in a Xen migration strategy. Any comments?

Re: Openfiler

10. Jul 30, 2007 4:14 AM

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Delboy69

1 posts since
Jul 30, 2007

Yes I would love to download OpenFiler.

BUT I work in highly secure Police enviroment and having a bittorrent only download is very helpful !!!!

Re: Openfiler

11. Jul 30, 2007 12:25 PM

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daniel_uk

999 posts since
Oct 24, 2005

Ditto, i am sure 95% of company firewalls dont have the ports open for BT.

Re: Openfiler

12. Dec 29, 2007 3:50 PM

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oracle10g

3 posts since
Dec 29, 2007

Downloaded the software, installed it as a virtual machine under windows XP. However, I do not have LDAP, NIS, or Windows Domain setup, can I still use it to have shared file volumes to be used between linux servers and/or Windows systems? If yes, then how do I set that up?

Thanks.