Can comment only see the BONE hard disks to host?

Sorry if this is a VMware 101 type question, but I can't seem to find any info on how things are configured in terms laymans.  Once I'm a little more commonly the VM talk I have much reading aligned.

I am planning a new installation of a server (no material yet but only looks like an ASUS RS120 E5 /.) PA4 is what I'll end up with).  Almost written off ESXi as unsuitable due to having only software raid, so it looks like VM server is the way to go.

I intend to use Ubuntu as my host server, unless there is a reason not to?

And at least 1 windows Vista/7 Vm for remote Office Access, possibly a few span/firewall filtering type application VM as well...

now the hard tip.  I also want to run a virtual runing Freenas (www.freenas.org) machine, they have some pre-configured virtual computer images or I can try to install myself on the virtual machine.

what I want to know is, accessible hard drives by freenas should be mounted in the linux host or virtual machine can interface directly with the hardware.  It is the first time so tried this, but it seems like a large number of interface layers cheating between the hardware and the virtual machine.

I was hoping to run linux on the 1 hard drive and store the VM on the 2nd OS.  I have an extra 2 discs I want to use it as a raid to freenas configuration but I have my doubts that it is viable...

cannot therefore the 2 readers I want to use the SIN, be connected directly on the nas OS?  or must they be mounted to linux 1, then the VMware and then the VM OS?

Given what you said now what you want to achieve, I think that the best way to achieve what you want is just to share disks directly from your host OS use something like NFS or Samba, according to what the customers are going to be. I have a 1 TB drive in one of my hosts openSUSE, formatted in ext3, that I use as a data store for my virtual machines running locally on the host computer. I then this shared via NFS so that ESXi servers can use ISO images I on he records duplication and he is also shared through Samba so that my Windows clients can connect to it. Probably not ideal, but it's a host R & D rather than the pure production. In the past, I also used iSCSI Enterprise Target (EIT) to expose the guest readers so that I can 'play' with clustering in a Microsoft environment.

Have a simple game with some VM first to get an idea of how it all works, in particular with regard to the virtual disks, data warehouses and so on.

Guy Leech

VMware vExpert 2009

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