For production deployment in either virtualized or bare-metal configuration, we recommend 64-bit Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron architecture processors for best performance. Future releases of Openfiler may only support 64-bit processors therefore they are highly recommended for new Openfiler installations.
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How to configure OpenFiler iSCSI Storage for use with VMware ESX.
I wanted to test an Openfiler as a solution forHA and vMotion with ESX Server and vCenter. Using Openfiler is a great way to save some money on expensive SANs and for home lab testing and learning, this choice is just great. I did not have 3 physical boxes (2 for ESX hosts and one for Openfiler) so I opted for a hybrid solution, where I’m actually running one ESX server inside of VMware workstation.
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Openfiler
The Openfiler distribution is available as an installable ISO CD image to be deployed on bare-metal or a pre-installed disk image for use in one of the several supported virtual machines monitors.
Installable images are available for both x86 and x86-64 architectures. Supported virtual machines monitors include Xen, VMware, QEMU, Virtual Iron and Parallels.
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