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Extending Storage on VMware ESX – Extending a LUN and having VMware ESX extend its VMFS partition

This document shows how to extend the VMware ESX partition. If for whatever reason we want to expand a LUN and this LUN is the shared storage of our VMware ESX servers, we must extend the VMFS partition by following these steps. In any case, it is not advisable to do so, it is always preferable to create a new LUN with the available free size. But if necessary, here we have how to do it. Even so, for it to extend correctly, it is advisable to stop the virtual machines that are running on this LUN (By experience).

Using StarWind to emulate iSCSI/NAS/SAN arrays

With this procedure we are going to explain how a NAS/SAN or iSCSI device works, Everything is simple, with software, we will use it to perform CLUSTER procedures. The StarWind is a software capable of emulating a disk array, be a NAS, or a SAN or the cheapest an iSCSI. In this procedure we will create a virtual array of iSCSI disks with StarWind (will be the iSCSI target) and with the iSCSI Initiator we will connect to it from the servers that we want the disks to have connected, for later create a cluster. This diagram comments on the situation:

Installing an Openfiler-based storage server or file server – Appliance NAS/SAN

In this document we will review the operation of a file server called Openfiler, we can install it directly on a server or run it on a VMware virtual machine and run it with VM ESX/VM Workstation/VM Player or VM Server. The first thing to do is to access its www.openfiler.org website and download the version that interests us the most.