Most of us use Virtual Environments for production, testing, training or just for a demo. This is why we would like to be sure you know how to install our Open-E DSS V7 as a Virtual Machine.
In this post we will do it with VMware.
First, you need to download the Open-E DSS V7 TRIAL version from our website.
http://www.open-e.com/download/open-e-data-storage-software-v7/
Please download the ISO file. Next, in the VMware GUI upload the ISO into any existing data store.
Now you can add the new VM. Please select the “custom” setup option in order to set more details.  Please use default settings, except for the following:

  • Guest Operating system: Other 2.6.x Linux (64bit)
  • Memory Configuration : at least 1GB
  • Network adapter:  VMXNET 3
  • SCSI Controller: VMware Paravirtual
  • Capacity of disk: 2GB (this disk will be used as a boot media for the Open-E DSS V7)

If you are not familiar with VMware you may watch the step-by-step video:

Download DSS V7

Janusz Bak

Chief Technology Officer

Janusz Bak joined Open-E in 1999 and has been serving as Open-E's CTO ever since. Janusz has over 30 years of software engineering experience and is a recognized expert on storage technologies. Before Open-E, Janusz headed up German support operations at Aztech Systems and at Mega.

16 Comments

  • NY /

    13, 08 2012 06:30:31

    Perhaps I’m missing something here, but if you’re virtualizing DSS, what is used to present the storage to the VM? ie. – wouldn’t DSS need to be installed as the storage server’s OS to present targets to systems like VMWare? And if DSS is installed on the storage server, what is the purpose of using it as a VM? Thanks!

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    • Janusz Bak /

      14, 08 2012 02:28:41

      Thank you for your question.
      There are so called VSA (Virtual Storage Appliance) solutions which can provide High Available iSCSI or NFS storage to Vmware hosts. In such case, you need at least 2 Vmware ESX hosts and on two hosts you can install virtual DSS. Next, you can configure iSCSI Failover or NAS(NFS) Failover and mount such exported volumes in ESX hosts.
      We have shown such a setup with the latest Active-Active iSCSI Failover on our webinar: http://www.open-e.com/service-and-support/library/webcasts-and-videos/
      Next to such practical use, you can find DSS as VM very useful for demo, training and testing.

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  • Oleg /

    14, 08 2012 10:15:38

    How about vmware tools?

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    • Kasia Kolodziej /

      07, 09 2012 11:07:58

      This is a great question Oleg. Currently, Open-E DSS V7 offers support for only the most important parts of VMware tools. The software incorporates support for VMware Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) adapters and Paravirtualized NIC (VMXNET3) adapters. These drivers increase the speed of your network and make storage access work faster because of lower CPU utilization.

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  • Nicklas /

    21, 08 2012 11:39:39

    Hi, how to do this on a Citrix Xenserver v5.6

    Thank you

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  • Milen Lyutskanov /

    29, 08 2012 07:17:20

    Oleg’s question is very relevant! What about vmtools? … It’s work, but it’s like a sailboat without sails …

    Regards

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