Openfiler log files

There are media types that have been manufactured to extend the longevity, but even so, logs, temp files, and swap should not be stored on this type of media. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Create a free website or blog at WordPress. Openfiler on USB stick I followed h nnes instructions.

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Join our community to see this answer! Unlock 4 Answers and 8 Comments. Andrew Hancock - VMware vExpert. See if this solution works for you by signing up for a 7 day free trial. What do I get with a subscription? With your subscription - you'll gain access to our exclusive IT community of thousands of IT pros. We can't always guarantee that the perfect solution to your specific problem will be waiting for you. The minimum disk requirement is 10GB so make sure to modify the hard disk size before you start the Openfiler installation.

The full system requirements can be found here. The installation procedure is also described on the Openfiler-website. But I have made a short installation guide below with the most important steps highlighted. First install the operating system on a single hard disk and then after installation is ready add hard disks that will contain your NFS and iSCSI partitions.

There is no need to power off the virtual machine to add the hard disks. You can add them while it's powered on in ESXi and Openfiler will also automatically detect the new disks. When you boot the virtual machine with the installation ISO you will see the image below. Press Enter to start the graphical installer.

For the rest of the setup process I have only placed images in this article and added explanations for those parts that require it. Other steps such as selecting your keyboard or time zone are things you can figure out yourself.

During the setup you will initialize your empty drive and you will be able to automatically partition the disk for the operating system.

You can see this in the image below. The default setting for your network adapter is that it will be configured for DHCP. If you want to configure a fixed IP address then you can do that later in the web based management UI or you can do it now as part of the installation process.

During installation you are asked to provide a password for the root user. Be aware that this password will not be the password that you will use to administer the appliance from the web based UI.

As you will see later there is another default user name and password for that. When the installation is finished you can reboot the virtual machine. Once it is rebooted you will see the URL you can use to manage the appliance on the console.

If you access the web based UI for the first time you will see a message that the certificate is un-trusted. Since the virtual machine was installed with a self signed certificate for HTTPS this is normal behavior and you can proceed anyway.

After you login for the first time change the administrator password for the virtual machine. This will require you to re-login with the new password. The first task to perform is to enable the services you want to be using.

The second task is to configure from which hosts or networks your Openfiler installation can be accessed. You can provide individual IP-addresses for your servers or you can specify an entire network as I have done in the image below. With this configuration all hosts in network You can do this while the virtual machine is powered on on ESXi, not on Workstation and Openfiler will detect them automatically. Access the Volumes -tab and select Block Devices from the menu on the right to manage the partitions for your disks.

Click the hyperlink for the device to add a partition.