How to Install an Openfiler in KVM

[ What’s Openfiler ? ]

http://www.openfiler.com/

Openfiler is an open source based storage server which supports NFS , CIFS , iSCSI , high availability , Web based GUI etc.

Reliability - Openfiler supports both software and hardware RAID with monitoring and alert facilities; volume snapshot and recovery

Availability - Openfiler supports active/passive high availability clustering, MPIO, and block level replication

Performance - Linux 2.6 kernel supports the latest CPU, networking and storage hardware

Scalability - filesystem scalability to 60TB+, online filesystem and volume growth support

[ Install an Openfiler 2.3 on KVM ]

KVM machine info

root@hat1:~# tail -1 /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.10" root@hat1:~# uname -r 2.6.35-28-server root@hat1:~# kvm --version QEMU PC emulator version 0.12.5 (qemu-kvm-0.12.5), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard root@hat1:~#

Download openfiler-2.3-x86-disc1.iso from http://www.openfiler.com/community/download/

create a disk image for openfiler

root@hat1:~# kvm-img create -f qcow2 /media/disk1/KVM_images/openfiler-vm1.img 5G Formatting '/media/disk1/KVM_images/openfiler-vm1.img', fmt=qcow2 size=5368709120 encryption=off cluster_size=0 root@hat1:~# root@hat1:~# kvm-img info /media/disk1/KVM_images/openfiler-vm1.img image: /media/disk1/KVM_images/openfiler-vm1.img file format: qcow2 virtual size: 5.0G (5368709120 bytes) disk size: 136K cluster_size: 65536

launch vrit-manager

The installation is very easy. ( similar to CentOS installation)




It took 15 minutes or so to finish the installation.

After finishing the installation , launch an web browser n’ access to https://openfiler’sIP:446

default login account is :

user: openfiler
credential : password

virsh # dumpxml openfiler-vm1 <domain type='kvm' id='3'>  <name>openfiler-vm1</name>  <uuid>043c5179-8a05-0ce7-eefa-a18359043185</uuid>  <memory>1048576</memory>  <currentMemory>1048576</currentMemory>  <vcpu>1</vcpu>  <os>    <type arch='i686' machine='pc-0.12'>hvm</type>    <boot dev='hd'/>  </os>  <features>    <acpi/>    <apic/>    <pae/>  </features>  <clock offset='utc'/>  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>  <on_crash>restart</on_crash>  <devices>    <emulator>/usr/bin/kvm</emulator>    <disk type='file' device='disk'>      <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2'/>      <source file='/media/disk1/KVM_images/openfiler-vm1.img'/>      <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>      <alias name='ide0-0-0'/>      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' unit='0'/>    </disk>    <disk type='block' device='cdrom'>      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>      <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/>      <readonly/>      <alias name='ide0-1-0'/>      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' unit='0'/>    </disk>    <controller type='ide' index='0'>      <alias name='ide0'/>      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/>    </controller>    <interface type='bridge'>      <mac address='52:54:00:d1:2a:93'/>      <source bridge='br0'/>      <target dev='vnet0'/>      <alias name='net0'/>      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/>    </interface>    <serial type='pty'>      <source path='/dev/pts/1'/>      <target port='0'/>      <alias name='serial0'/>    </serial>    <console type='pty' tty='/dev/pts/1'>      <source path='/dev/pts/1'/>      <target type='serial' port='0'/>      <alias name='serial0'/>    </console>    <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>    <graphics type='vnc' port='5900' autoport='yes'/>    <video>      <model type='cirrus' vram='9216' heads='1'/>      <alias name='video0'/>      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/>    </video>    <memballoon model='virtio'>      <alias name='balloon0'/>      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/>    </memballoon>  </devices> </domain> virsh #

That’s it :)