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Nov 28, 2013 Install and configure Openfiler for ESXi shared storage with NFS and iSCSI published by RobBastiaansen on Thu, - 13:05 When you have created an ESXi environment and want to work with features such as vMotion and High Availability you will need shared storage in. This post describes on how to setup and configure hosted Openfiler iSCSI storage target on a VMware ESX/ESXi or VMware server 1.x or 2.x host using the freely available Openfiler appliance. However this configuration and setting not a suitable solution for a production environment as it does not include any iSCSI CHAP authentication or datastore.
Installing VMware Tools is part of the process of creating a new virtual machine, and upgrading VMware Tools is part of the process of keeping your virtual machine up to current standards. Although your guest operating systems can run without VMware Tools, many VMware features are not available until you install VMware Tools. When you install VMware Tools, the utilities in the suite enhance the performance of the guest operating system in your virtual machine and improve the management of your virtual machines.
For information about creating virtual machines, see the documentation for the applicable VMware product.
The installers for VMware Tools are ISO image files. The CD-ROM in your guest operating system detects the ISO image file. Each type of guest operating system, including Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, has an ISO image file. When you select the command to install or upgrade VMware Tools, the virtual machine’s first virtual CD-ROM disk drive temporarily connects to the VMware Tools ISO file for your guest operating system.
You can use the Windows Easy Install or Linux Easy Install feature to install VMware Tools as soon as the operating system is finished installing.
The most recent versions of the ISO files are stored on a VMware Web site. When you select the command to install or upgrade VMware Tools, the VMware product determines whether it has downloaded the most recent version of the ISO file for the specific operating system. If the latest version has not been downloaded or if no VMware Tools ISO file for that operating system has ever been downloaded, you are prompted to download the file.
- VMware Tools installer from windows.iso automatically detects the windows version. It does not proceed with the installation on guest operating systems earlier than Windows Vista.
- VMware Tools installer from winPreVista.iso does not proceed with the installation on Windows Vista and later.
- VMware Tools installer from linux.iso does not proceed with installation on Linux guest operating system versions earlier than RHEL5, SLES 11, Ubuntu 10.04, and other Linux distributions with glibc version earlier than 2.5.
- VMware Tools installer from darwinPre15.iso does not proceed with installation on MAC OS X guest operating systems versions 10.11 or later.
- VMware Tools installer from darwin.iso does not proceed with installation on MAC OS X guest operating systems versions earlier than 10.11.
The installation procedure varies, depending on the operating system. For information about installing or upgrading VMware Tools on your guest operating systems, see the topic about upgrading virtual machines in the Virtual Machine Administration Guide. For general instructions about installing VMware Tools, see the VMware Knowledge base article http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1014294.
You can use the Linux tar or RPM utilities to install VMware tools on a Linux guest OS.
■ | The virtual machine is powered on. |
With an existing installation, delete the vmware-tools-distrib directory before you install. The location of this directory depends on where you placed it during the previous installation (such as, tmp/vmware-tools-distrib). |
Procedure
2 | In the left pane, click VMs. | |||||
Select a Linux virtual machine, right-click, and select Install VMware Tools. | ||||||
4 | Right-click the virtual machine again and click Popout Console. | |||||
In the guest operating system, log in as root (su-), mount the VMware Tools virtual CD-ROM image, and change to a working directory (for example, /tmp. Some Linux distributions automatically mount CD-ROMs. If your distribution uses automounting, do not use the mount and unmount commands. You still must untar the VMware Tools installer to /tmp. Some Linux distributions use different device names or organize the /dev directory differently. If your CD-ROM drive is not /dev/cdrom, or if the mount point for a CD-ROM is not /mnt/cdrom, modify these commands to reflect the conventions used by your distribution. | ||||||
6 | Uncompress the installer and unmount the CD-ROM image. If you install an RPM installation over a tar installation, or the reverse, the installer detects the previous installation and must convert the installer database format before continuing.
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Run the installer.
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8 | After the upgrade is complete, restart the network by running /etc/init.d/network restart. | |||||
Type exit. | ||||||
10 | Start your graphical environment. | |||||
In an X terminal, run vmware-toolbox &. |