Archive for the ‘ OpenFiler ’ Category

How to make a volume in Openfiler larger

If there’s one things that disks do well, it’s fill up and run out of room.  My Openfiler iSCSI volumes always seem to be filling up as the virtual machines that live in them grow or I make snapshots. If there is free room in the volume group that a volume is housed in, it’s very [ READ MORE ]

Openfiler reboot issue

A default install of Openfiler 2.3 has an issue when rebooted.  On a default installation of Openfiler 2.3, clients cannot use iSCSI target disks after a reboot.  In other words, it’ll work fine until you reboot it.  This has been discussed at some length in Openfiler forums, and has an open bug filed against it. Also [ READ MORE ]

Openfiler holds its own in tests against dedicated storage appliances

I have access to a couple of different storage arrays, so I decided to see if Openfiler lags them significantly in performance.  Turns out Openfiler does just fine.  In fact, against a Dell/Equallogic PS5000E entry level array, my Openfiler install (running on a Dell 6950) is faster serving up storage for XenServer storage repositories.  It’s [ READ MORE ]

Install and usage notes for iSCSI with Openfiler

I’ve been doing a lot of work with Openfiler, a well regarded Open Source Storage Appliance Software package. With Openfiler, you can take “any old” server you have laying around and make a iSCSI, CIFS or NFS file server easily and quickly. Here are my notes on getting Openfiler installed and working for iSCSI. [ READ MORE ]

“Where did all these hard drives come from?” or why you need shared storage

Shared storage is a way to virtualize storage.  Use a shared storage device (a storage area network) like a Fibre Channel or iSCSI array, and never buy a hard drive in a server again.  Just like virtualization allows you to better utilize the servers you already have, shared storage lets you better use the hard [ READ MORE ]

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