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Open Source storage server

jonmoore — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:29:28 +0000

This is not going to be a full review, but more a general take on things.

Since moving from VMware Server to ESXi to host my virtual machines, I’ve been very interested in looking into some more of the advanced features of ESX and ESXi yet most of these require iSCSI. I remember from a few years back using Openfiler to do some simple samba file sharing, and remembered it supported iSCSI as one method of giving out storage.

Now, I’ve yet to use any of the features of ESX that require iSCSI, or even setup Openfiler to export storage via iSCSI, but I have been using it for simple file sharing and must say I’m quite impressed.

Setup is a breeze, taking about 20 minutes on an older PC. Management is done almost entirely through a web interface, that is very easy to use. Unlink many of the other appliance packages out there, the web interface is very simple and straight forward. Very much impressed with that.

Over the next few months I’ll be exploring Openfiler much more, and hopefully getting into some of it’s more advanced features including interface bonding, md devices and clustering. I plan to keep updating as things more along.

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Arrow keys not working in VMware?

jonmoore — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:41:26 +0000

Mine didn’t

Luckily Google helped me find a solutation rather quickly, and using information from this site I was able to get things working again.

Basically, I added xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true to /etc/vmware/config and things started working right. Another on the forum suggested remapping the keys, but I didn’t try that.

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VMware ate my CTRL, Shift, and ALT keys :(

jonmoore — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:36:53 +0000

Working with VMware on Ubuntu 8.04 has proved to be much more trouble then in the past. It appears, that when using VMware with a Windows guest, the CTRL, ALT and Shift keys no longer work. It gets better though..

Google Search has offered a few solutions, mostly related to resetting keyboard layouts and such. However, when I try and use any other key, take the ’s’ for example, Ubuntu closes the current active window, and opens the file manager.

So far, the only working solution I’ve found involves two steps. First, restart the computer then cease using VMware to run Windows guests.

Easy enough, I suppose..

If anyone out there has a fix for this, or knows something I’m missing, please leave details in the comments.

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