{"id":18283,"date":"2012-07-31T15:45:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T15:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.open-e.com\/?p=18283"},"modified":"2025-07-07T11:26:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T11:26:23","slug":"open-e-dss-v7-as-a-virtual-machine-on-vmware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/open-e-dss-v7-as-a-virtual-machine-on-vmware\/","title":{"rendered":"Open-E DSS V7 as a virtual machine on VMware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tMost 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.<br \/>\nIn this post we will do it with VMware.<br \/>\nFirst, you need to download the Open-E DSS V7 TRIAL version from our website.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.open-e.com\/download\/open-e-data-storage-software-v7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.open-e.com\/download\/open-e-data-storage-software-v7\/<\/a><br \/>\nPlease download the ISO file. Next, in the VMware GUI upload the ISO into any existing data store.<br \/>\nNow you can add the new VM. Please select the &#8220;custom&#8221; setup option in order to set more details.\u00a0 Please use default settings, except for the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Guest Operating system: Other 2.6.x Linux (64bit)<\/li>\n<li>Memory Configuration : at least 1GB<\/li>\n<li>Network adapter:\u00a0 VMXNET 3<\/li>\n<li>SCSI Controller: VMware Paravirtual<\/li>\n<li>Capacity of disk: 2GB (this disk will be used as a boot media for the Open-E DSS V7)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are not familiar with VMware you may watch the step-by-step video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/46428200\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.open-e.com\/products\/open-e-data-storage-software-v7\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28013 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.open-e.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/blog_open-e.png\" alt=\"Download DSS V7\" width=\"578\" height=\"94\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/blog_open-e.png 578w, https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/blog_open-e-570x94.png 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/><\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[765,10,11],"tags":[229,249,706,715],"class_list":["post-18283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-e-legacy-products","category-virtualization","category-vmware","tag-dss-v7","tag-esxi","tag-virtual-machine","tag-vmware"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55198,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18283\/revisions\/55198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open-e.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}