Comments on: How to Connect FreeNAS iSCSI Disks to VMware vSphere 4 (ESXi 4)

By: custard shark

custard shark — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:53:56 +0000

When creating volumes for the datastore in VMWare, you should ensure the volume is slightly smaller than 2Tb, or ESX/i 4 will throw an error.

See this VMWare KB:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=3371739

Hope that helps..

By: jose

jose — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:41:23 +0000

Hello,

The material is really good but I have some issues to finish this works. Currently, we have an FreeNAS and vsphere 4.1. and I create a LUN 2TB on the FreeNAS but I have an error on the step “12) Select Disk/LUN and press Next.” .

The error is “Error adding a datastore in VMware ESXi 4.1 – Call “HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreCreateOptions” for object “ha-datastoresystem” on ESXi failed”.

How can solve this error?.

Thanks

By: Lynx

Lynx — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:20:14 +0000

You could even run FreeNAS as VM on the ESXi vSphere Host itself. Give all disk space to the FreeNAS server and provide the disk space back to ESXi using iSCSI
This way you need only one machine and can take advantage of ZFS and file system snapshots on the datastore.

By: نحوه کلاسترینگ در vmware

نحوه کلاسترینگ در vmware — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:35:14 +0000

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By: GET

GET — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:22:22 +0000

Thanks for the article, but got question. As you mentioned in your article “Installed three Windows 2008 R2 operating systems in ESXi4. ( one as domain controller and two for Exchange cluster)”. Nested VM doesn’t allow x64bit OS like 2008 R2. How did you install 2008 R2 inside ESXi4 and inside VMware workstation?

By: Renato Sampaio

Renato Sampaio — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:19:43 +0000

I also really liked the article. Now I have job to do this weekend.

I would say thanks Dinesh,

Renato from Brazil.

By: Byron Musoni

Byron Musoni — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:36:02 +0000

I really liked the article. It helped me add an iscsi target disk to my ESXi 4 servers.

By: Frastuzi Affan

Frastuzi Affan — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 10:11:31 +0000

Very very good article. Plus Picture, i like it., Thank you very much Dinesh.

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By: Dinesh

Dinesh — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:08:49 +0000

@Jason,
Thanks for your comment.
With the same method I managed to install Exchange 2010 on Cluster with FreeNAS. It’s cool, isn’t?
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