running ESOS in VMware workstation

[Javad Mousavi]

hello everybody
at the first sorry because of my English. i ran ESOS in vmware workstation and i have some problem
one of them is network card (vmnetwork cards) is not knowing by esos. how can i resolve this??
an other one is that when i want to create megacli raid volume i see this error message "the megacli tool isn't working (or is not installed)".

thanks for your replies

[Marc Smith]

Hi,

For the VM network question: Which version of ESOS are you using? What
virtual NIC type did you select for the VM (eg, E1000, vmxnet3)? I'm
can't remember which options are available for VMware Workstation...

For the MegaCLI question: It sounds like you did not include the
MegaCLI tool at install time. When using the installer script (for any
platform) after the image has been written to the USB flash drive,
continue following the prompts to install proprietary CLI RAID tools
(eg, MegaCLI).

Let us know on the outcome of the above responses and if you have any
other questions.


--Marc

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[Javad Mousavi]

thanks for your reply Marc
for the first one i ran ESOS in physical PC (not virtual machine) and ESOS detect my NIC.
for the second one you are right, i didn't install any raid controller cli.

[Steve Jones]

I'm more familiar with ESXi servers than the workstation versions, but I dont believe you're going to get  a virtual machine to see the physical raid card because I dont think workstation supports "PCI Passthrough", meaning that the physical hardware is hidden from you, and instead, you have a standard set of PC hardware emulated in your VM.  That means you aren't able to, but you dont need to manage the RAID from the VM.  You'll be creating the RAID sets with the raid card on the host PC, and then creating virtual disks on those RAID volumes and assigning them to the ESOS VM, OR you can use the "RDM" (Raw Device Mapping) to assign the created volumes directly to the VM.  I know this wont let you test the RAID management tools on the VM, but it does let you test ESOS..  at least in terms of iSCSI.  I think because the fiber channel hardware wouldn't be passed through, you also wont be able to do FCSan in a VM.

I have used VMWARE player in the past to take a disk from another ESOS machine, and have the VM make the volumes available over iSCSI, and it worked great.

-Steve