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How to install openfiler on vmware for shared storage

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Openfiler is an operating system that provides block based storage area network and file based NAS using ISCSI protocol. Using this software ,we can setup shared storage for our cluster testing setup.I have installed the openfiler on vmware workstation and here is the step by step screenshot of installation

You can download latest openfiler from the below link.
http://www.openfiler.com/community/download/

Create new virtual machine like the one we have in the below snap.
Virtual system configuration:
1.Virtual CPU=1
2.Physical memory=400MB~
3.Harddisk=4GB
4.Network Adapter=1
5.CD/DVD Drive=1
No need to have sound card and floppy drive here.Just edit the virtual machine settings and remove it.


  
Power on the machine to begin the installation.In the first screen,you will get many options for OS recovery and upgrade.Since we are doing fresh installation,You just press enter to continue. 




Select Next to continue






Set the static IP address and Host name and this is the address which are going to use for openfiler-web based administration.Please make sure you providing the IP in same sub-net


Enter the hostname


Select the timezone





Openfiler installation finished 


Booting the Openfiler


Now you can login as root and reset password for openfiler account to access web portal


From web browser you can access web-based administration console.


Once the installation is done,then your next step will be provisioning volumes to iscsi targets.

Thank you reading this article.Please leave a comment if you have any doubt.I will get back to you.

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  1. Pranesh says

    Hello Sir , I am tying to install this openfiler on Oracle Virtual Box , But if it starts installing after progressing for some 10% it is not procedding waited for hrs but no luck, Can you please help as what could be the issue

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  2. saikrishna bandreddi says

    Hi everyone, i’m facing his problem while successful installation
    This site can’t be reached
    10.0.0.15 refused to connect.
    Try:
    Checking the connection
    Checking the proxy and the firewall
    ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED.
    plz help me how to resolve this issue.

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  4. sajid says

    I am facing issue to setup /Install Openfiler. after successfully installation reboot but nothing comes after ward just black screen. Any one knw the problem please help .

    Thanks

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  6. Lingeswaran R says

    In windows box–>go to network setting–>Set the IP address on the same virtual machine network for those VMware NIC's and try.

    If still not working , in virtual machine, modify the NIC type to NAT or host-only and try.

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  9. saran says

    After installing the open filer
    i opend the administrator but i'm able to view only four tabs those are Quota, password,language and logout… please suggest me what i do next

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  12. Mohammed Danish says

    After installing Openfiler 2.3 on Oracle Virtualbox, I'm getting the below message on console; but while trying to access the below path i'm getting page cannot be displayed error.

    Welcome to Openfiler NSA, version 2.3

    Web administration GUI: https://10.0.2.15:446/

    Also i checked the services under /sbin/service –status-all; the openfiler service is listed as below :

    openfiler (pid 2575 2573 2562) is running…

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  13. ramprasad says

    After installing the open filer
    i opend the administrator but i'm able to view only four tabs those are Quota, password,language and logout… please suggest me what i do next

    Reply

  16. Shahid Khan says

    I am finding issues in installing OpenFile with RAM:384 and Disk size:8GB. At stage | at above snapshot number 6 from top. It is showing :

    " Could not aalocate requested partitions: Partition failed: Not enough space left to create partition for /. "

    Plz advise.

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