VMware is one of the coolest virtualization software. It supports most of the operating systems as guest operating system. Microsoft Server operating systems such as windows 2008 and windows 2008 R2 also can be installed in VMware workstation. Here I’m going to show how you can install FreeNAS server onVMware Workstation with iSCSI disks which can be used for your host and guest operating systems. This method will be used to install and configure MS Windows 2008 or Windows 2008 R2 cluster in VMware workstation. ![]() Since yesterday I have problems to download files from vmware using. I download a Freenas. Installing FreeNAS on VMware Workstation October 24, 2012 13 Comments Written by aasim Ok so before we proceed into the more advanced services like Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) I think its best that we do a post on FreeNAS. FreeNAS Storage Setup for the Home VMware Lab. My setup consists of VMware Workstation 9 with FreeNAS 8.2.0. Log into the appliance from a machine on your. What is NAS (Network Access Storage)? Physically NAS is a hardware device with hard drives, and its accessible via network port. In production environment there are famous NAS brands, such as, These NAS devices support iSCSI, which is required for cluster and high availability setup for servers. But for the testing purpose in VMware we can’t have expensing physical NAS devices to configure cluster ot high availability servers in VMware. So, there is some free open source NAS software where you can use a computer as NAS. These free storage virtualization software make your computer hard disk as network access storage and allow other clients to access the disk directly through network. I found these two free NAS softwares can be installed in computer and make NAS. This article explains how you can install FreeNAS on VMware workstation virtual machine to enable iSCSI target disks. Why I avoided Openfiler is, because of we will be using this NAS for Windows 2008 or Windows 2008 R2 server clusters. Openfiler doesn’t support SCSI-3 persistent reservation disks which is required for Windows 2008 and windows 2008 R2 server clusters but FreeNAS supports SCSI-3 persistent reservation disks. How to Install FreeNAS Server on VMware workstation? It’s just 75MB ISO file. 2) Create a virtual machine in VMware workstation, with following configuration. Guest Operating System – Other – FreeBSD Maximum disk size – 2GB Memory – 2GB Processor – 1 or 2 ( it doesn’t matter) Network Adapter – Which ever work with your client computers. 3) Select the downloaded FreeNAS ISO file under ISO image file in CD/DVD settings, and boot the virtual machine with CD drive as first boot device. 4) Boot the system with first option ( default) 5) If the virtual machine settings and downloaded file is correct, then you next screen will the below one. That’s it, NAS operating is loaded and ready to use. You can see the network address on NAS which will be given by VMware DHCP. Since this is Live CD version, its running from CD and RAM only. When you boot the NAS operating next time, it will disappear. So we have install it permanently on the virtual machine hard disk. It can be installed on external devices also, including flash device and USB drives. 6) To install FreeNAS permanently on hard drive, type number 9 and press enter in above screen. 7) Select the first option in first screen and press OK. 8) Press OK for warning/instruction message. 9) Installation media will be your virtual machine CD drive where we mounted the ISO file. Press OK in the next screen. 10) Select the 2GB hard disk we created during the virtual machine setup. Once we installed FreeNAS on this hard disk, then it cannot be used for create volumes or share data. So how to create disks for cluster or as iSCSI targets. Do not worry; we will add hard disks later to virtual machine in live. 11) Confirmation message will be shown as below after the installation succeeded. 12) Shutdown the system by pressing number 8. Then un mount the installation ISO file under CD/DVD drive, then start the FreeNAS virtual machine.
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