Haven't messed with OpenFiler that much, but just because a something says "iSCSI" or "NFS" on it doesn't mean it is necessarily compatible with VMware ESX. VMFS is a clustered file system, a...
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Haven't messed with OpenFiler that much, but just because a something says "iSCSI" or "NFS" on it doesn't mean it is necessarily compatible with VMware ESX. VMFS is a clustered file system, and therefore uses locking/reservation features of the iSCSI protocol that are often not available or poorly implemented in many iSCSI implementations (low-end NAS devices for example). If you're running this setup in production, and not just a test lab, I would strongly suggest finding something from the official VMware hardware compatibility list. This will cost money, but there are some less-expensive devices on there. We use OpenSolaris storage on an old box in our VMware lab, because it is cheap. Also we are using HP/LeftHand clustered storage in our test VMware cluster. This isn't ideal, but ponying up $3/GB for the test lab didn't make it past accounting. StarWind Software R&D