Connecting an iSCSI-enabled Openfiler NAS to VMware ESX

In this document, we'll look at how to connect an ESX server to a shared storage system, for this we will use an Openfiler NAS, using iSCSI. To configure this document, it is assumed that we already have an Openfiler server installed and with a volume created of the iSCSI type to be able to use HA or DRS with VMotion. And of course a virtual network connection that allows VMotion.

Setting up an MSA – HP StorageWorks Modular SAN Array 1000 with ESX

In this document we will explain how we will connect this SAN to ESX servers, the logical thing is that we have an MSA with two controllers (otherwise, It doesn't make much sense to invest so much, if we don't have redundancy in controllers), as well as two fiber switches on the back to have redundancy at the switch level as well. And on each ESX server we will place a couple of fiber optic HBA's, to which we will connect each HBA to a fiber switch to have a high availability system.

Install VMware VirtualCenter 2.5

En este documento sólo veremos el proceso de instalación del VirtualCenter de VMware, The version 2.5. Definición: VMware VirtualCenter es un software de administración de infraestructura virtual. Crea un centro de datos que responde con mayor rapidez y seguridad tareas de configuración, asignación de aplicaciones, servicios y servidores virtuales. Este software permite provisionamiento instantáneo de servidores, disminuye el paradas de los usuarios y optimiza el centro de datos.

Generic VMware Virtual Center Settings

Connecting to an ESX host or VirtualCenter with VMware Infrastructure Client – AKI Organizing a VirtualCenter Structure, Creating directories, Datacenters and Adding Hosts – AKI Virtual Machine Creation (MV) – AKI Migrate a VM between different hosts – AKI Creating a cluster with (HA and DRS) and migrating hosts to it – AKI Creating and Using Resource Pools – AKI Overview of all tabs and parts of the VirtualCenter Admin Console – HERE

Installing and Configuring VMware ThinApp

Introducing a new VMware product, it is called VMware ThinApp and its purpose is to distribute applications to users, Streaming apps, new competitor e.g. Citrix Application Streaming (HERE). What I said, VMware Introduces Product as a Solution for Delivering Applications to Users, so that they can run them without the applications having to be installed on their workstations.

Installing and Using VMware Server

This procedure explains a VMware product, called VMware Server. It is software that runs on top of an operating system, usually Windows 2003, VMware Server would be installed on it and virtual machines would run on it. The Bad, that the S.O. base is already consuming resources that could be leveraged by VMs, or we have to pay Microsoft directly for a Windows license 2003 that we won't use for anything, just to have VMware Server installed. The Good, which is totally free and we can have several machines installed and running at the same time, We can manage them remotely with the “VMware Server Console” from any PC on the network, We can run scripts…