Nexentastor

Providing a Nexenta iSCSI target to an ESXi initiator

2012-04-03 624 words, 3 minutes
datastore
esxi
initiator
iscsi
nexenta
nexentastor
target
vmfs
vmware
zfs
zvol

Here’s the deal: create a ZFS volume on the Nexenta server, share it as iSCSI and attach it using the software iSCSI initiator from ESXi 5.

Install VMware tools for Nexenta on ESXi

2012-03-14 189 words, 1 minutes
community
esxi
nexenta
nexentastor
solaris
tools
vmware

I installed NexentaStor Community 3.1.2 on my VMware ESXi 5.0 and wanted to get the VMware tools running ; mostly because I know there are tools for Solaris and it may improve the Administrator Experience. The virtual machine is configured as “Oracle Solaris 11 (64-bit)” Guest OS. It has 2 vCPU and 4GB of RAM. There are also two Mapped Raw LUN attached to it. The VMware Tools installation is nearly straight forward.