InstantForum.NET v2.9.0SQLServerCentralhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/notifications@sqlservercentral.comWed, 22 May 2013 23:23:40 GMT20http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspxThis guide was written sometime ago and the software may well have changed since then. Check the Freenas docs or alternatively you could use a Windows 2008 VM with Starwinds iSCSI NAS\SAN server.Mon, 13 May 2013 05:26:17 GMTPerry Whittlehttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspxHi Guys, I was trying to configure as per what its mention, the version that I have use seem a bit different company to the screenshot that is given for the freeNAS, can you please advise which version that you are using. I have downloaded FreeNAS-8.2.0-RELEASE-p1-x86.iso. First the setup scree are different...anyway, I have manage to configure the ipaddress and some setting..and I am able ot access the web via my host browser. Once I have login, it seem like the 'Disk' button are not available in my screen...after compare there are some other section are also not available as compare to your screeshot...pls adviseMon, 13 May 2013 00:54:49 GMTlbseong77http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspxHey...this is a wonderful website buddy and an informative post!!! i am new here and i found this site very interesting and informative ,, you are a professional blogger i think i have a great interest in such things...thank you for the post buddy and keep on posting nice stuff like this :)[url=http://www.test-inside.com/PMI-001.htm]PMI-001[/url][url=http://www.test-inside.com/220-701.htm]220-701[/url][url=http://www.test-inside.com/640-864.htm]640-864[/url][url=http://www.test-inside.com/350-030.htm]350-030[/url]Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:45:11 GMTjasminerana729http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspx[quote][b]Peter Jin (11/7/2011)[/b][hr]Hi Perry,Is it possible to run the exercise on VMWare ESXi 4.0?[/quote]The process differs a little, but yes it is completely possible. I run mine on ESX ;-)Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:14:15 GMTPerry Whittlehttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspxHi Perry,Is it possible to run the exercise on VMWare ESXi 4.0?Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:20:44 GMTPeter Jinhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspxthe 3 services for Authorisation, Host and Web server access need to be started ;-)Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:12:46 GMTPerry Whittlehttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspx[quote][b]Perry Whittle (10/8/2011)[/b][hr][quote][b]mohammed moinudheen (10/8/2011)[/b][hr]today after restarting my laptop I was unable to logon to the VMWare server home page. I am not sure what was the reason.[/quote]did you check the VMWare services are running on the host machine?[/quote]Oops, no. I didn't check, that was easy. Guess you must to be referring to this one as I didn't find any other utility.[img]http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/5839/image1shf.jpg[/img]Sat, 08 Oct 2011 10:16:47 GMTmohammed moinudheenhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspx[quote][b]mohammed moinudheen (10/8/2011)[/b][hr]today after restarting my laptop I was unable to logon to the VMWare server home page. I am not sure what was the reason.[/quote]did you check the VMWare services are running on the host machine?Sat, 08 Oct 2011 09:29:49 GMTPerry Whittlehttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspxThank you Perry. The article is cool and you could complete all of it easily just by referring the screenshots. Of course, if you hit any roadblocks you are there to help :-P. I have one question though. I had configured all the steps in part 1 successfully, however, today after restarting my laptop I was unable to logon to the VMWare server home page. I am not sure what was the reason. I checked few things but I was unable to figure it out. So again, I started all over and now I am back to square one. Completed part 1 and going to start part 2 of series. Sat, 08 Oct 2011 07:04:35 GMTmohammed moinudheenhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspxWell done Mohammed. This is article is designed to do exactly what has happened here. You've a deal more now haven't you ;-)Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:25:54 GMTPerry Whittlehttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspxNot to worry,please ignore previous error messages encountered, I was able to complete successfully this module after some more trials and testing. Will proceed to part 2.Thank you.Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:25:17 GMTmohammed moinudheenhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspxAnother point, during the LAN configuration, I am encountering this pop up window after entering the [b]Supply the Network mask (using CIDR notation) as 24[/b].[img]http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/5640/image5me.jpg[/img]What is the value for this?Please suggest.Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:51:32 GMTmohammed moinudheenhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspxI deleted the Virtual machine and started again. Now, I could see the 20 GB virtual hard disk added, screenshot below. [img]http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/8458/image1wr.jpg[/img]However, I am still seeing the same error message when I go to the link http://10.10.10.2/One thing I noticed, during the steps of configuring the LAN IP address, below are my observations.After this step, "Select "no" for the IPv6 configuration,"[img]http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/908/image2lj.jpg[/img]I am getting this screen and [b]not[/b] what is shown in the article.[img]http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/9405/image3ww.jpg[/img]As per the article, the next screen is supposed to be like this where you get the message regarding interface setup. Is this the reason for the webGUI not showing up?[img]http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/2224/image4by.jpg[/img]Also please find more details below related to your previous queries.[quote] [i]What subnet do you have configured for VMNet2?[/i] [/quote]It is 10.10.10.0, just followed the same steps as described in article[quote] [i]Can you ping the virtual machines IP address successfully when trying to connect to the web admin site. ?[/i] [/quote]How to check this? Please suggestFri, 07 Oct 2011 11:37:49 GMTmohammed moinudheenhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspxYou're only showing 1 hard disk attached to the vm, might be worth deleting the virtual machine and starting again. What subnet do you have configured for VMNet2?Can you ping the virtual machines IP address successfully when trying to connect to the web admin site.Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:37:36 GMTPerry Whittlehttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspxIn the first case "[i]As i said go to the VMs folder location in explorer and check how many virtual hard disks you see (and their sizes [/i])" I could go to the VM folder location and see the virtual hard disks.There are two files of 20 GB each. Please see screenshot below.[img]http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/4710/image1fik.jpg[/img]In the second,"[i]Check the virtual machines NIC is not disabled and also the virtual network it is connected to[/i]." I could see the NICs are enabled and still the link was not coming up.Screenshot below.[img]http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/2188/image2bk.jpg[/img]Please suggest.Thu, 06 Oct 2011 23:02:42 GMTmohammed moinudheenhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspx[quote][b]mohammed moinudheen (10/6/2011)[/b][hr]I added the 20 GB disk but my laptop got very slow[/quote]On a host machine with low resources this is common, creating the pre allocated disk file will hammer the host disk. You may even lose connectivity with the vmware server console. Open windows explorer and go to the VMs folder location and hitting refresh you should see the file size climbing. Once its finished creating the file you may then proceed.[quote][b]mohammed moinudheen (10/6/2011)[/b][hr]But I was not sure if I had done this correctly so I performed above step again.[/quote]As i said go to the VMs folder location in explorer and check how many virtual hard disks you see (and their sizes ;-) )[quote][b]mohammed moinudheen (10/6/2011)[/b][hr]Now, I tried the next step."[i]Power on the VM and and from the host machine login to the Freenas console using the URL http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address assigned previously[/i]"I powered on VM and in the host machine, I typed in http://10.10.10.2/ , but the message is "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". In fact, I had give the same IP address as in "Enter the new LAN IP address" section of article. Not sure, if I am doing these steps correctly.Please provide your suggestions.[/quote]Check the virtual machines NIC is not disabled and also the virtual network it is connected to.Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:26:43 GMTPerry Whittlehttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspxI was able to proceed further in configuring the virtual machine but I am stuck at this point now. "[i]In the VMWare server console ensure you highlight the NAS VM in the inventory pane and under the command pane click the "Add hardware" option and add a new disk 20GB in size, pre allocating all disk space (shown below)."[/i]I added the 20 GB disk but my laptop got very slow and then I powered on the VM.But I was not sure if I had done this correctly so I performed above step again. Both the times, my laptop had to be restarted as it hung up.I was not able to check the VM and see if this disk was indeed added but from the host machine I could see 40 GB disappeared.Now, I tried the next step."[i]Power on the VM and and from the host machine login to the Freenas console using the URL http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address assigned previously[/i]"I powered on VM and in the host machine, I typed in http://10.10.10.2/ , but the message is "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". In fact, I had give the same IP address as in "Enter the new LAN IP address" section of article. Not sure, if I am doing these steps correctly.Please provide your suggestions.Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:36:55 GMTmohammed moinudheenhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspxThank you Perry, really appreciate your help.I will try this and update the forum.Wed, 05 Oct 2011 04:11:25 GMTmohammed moinudheenhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspxuse this link [url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-7-Stable/0.7.2.7903/][u]http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-7-Stable/0.7.2.7903/[/u][/url]and get the file named "FreeNAS-i386-LiveCD-0.7.2.7903.iso".The file "FreeNAS-amd64-LiveCD-0.7.2.7903.iso" is the 64 bit version.When you create the VM use the FreeBSD 32 bit OS type for the i386 ISO, the FreeBSD 64 bit VM type should be used with the amd64 ISO.Wed, 05 Oct 2011 03:53:28 GMTPerry Whittlehttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspx[quote][b]Perry Whittle (10/5/2011)[/b][hr]At a guess I would say you're using the 64 bit Freenas ISO and this is not compatible with your host. Try installing from the x86 ISO[/quote]I used this link for downloading the FreeNAS ISO which you had shared in this discussion forum. It looks like it only contains the 64 bit version.http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-7-Stable/ Could you kindly share with me the correct link you recommend. I am afraid I might download something else and again get stalled in setting this up.Wed, 05 Oct 2011 03:35:05 GMTmohammed moinudheenhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspxAt a guess I would say you're using the 64 bit Freenas ISO and this is not compatible with your host. Try installing from the x86 ISOWed, 05 Oct 2011 01:31:45 GMTPerry Whittlehttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspxAfter powering on the VM server, the VMware Remote console appears like this, How do we proceed now, please suggest. [img]http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg38/scaled.php?server=38&filename=vmwareremoteconsole.jpg&res=medium[/img]Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:36:38 GMTmohammed moinudheenhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspxHi Perry,I am using [b]Internet Explorer 9[/b]Thanks,Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:31:15 GMTmohammed moinudheenhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspxHi Mohammed, sure i'm happy to help.May i start by asking which browser you use?Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:07:44 GMTPerry Whittlehttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspx[quote][b]Perry Whittle (7/18/2011)[/b][hr][quote][b]guthey.aditya (7/18/2011)[/b][hr]I ambitiously started off trying to set up a windows cluster on VMWare and I came across your wonderful article. I am stuck on a small issue though. I am using Windows 7 and trying to power up the virtual machine. The boot image is FreeNAS as you mentioned in your article. I expected the NAS image to start the set up on power up of the Virtual machine. But nothing seems to be happening. I have little experience with VMWare. How can install the FreeNAS? Is there something that I am missing? In other words, Can you please elaborate on the following point made in your article. "Power on the VM and boot the ISO image accepting all defaults." How do I boot the ISO image is my question. Thanks,Aditya guthey.[/quote]Hi once you have created the NAS virtual machine, edit the settings for the virtual CD\DVD drive and point to the FreeNAS ISO which you should have downloaded and stored in your ISO repository. This is also the same for installing the Windows servers too. When creating the VM and adding a CD\DVD drive it will be set to use the host CD drive as default, you need to change this and point it to the relative ISO for the system you are installing. If you're still stuck let me know and I'll send you some more detailed screenshots. It may help you to read the VMWare Server 2.0 user guide PDF which is also available from VMWare when you obtain your download[/quote]Now, I am stuck here, "Power on the VM and boot the ISO image accepting all defaults."I was able to edit the setting for the virtual CD\DVD drive and point to FreeNAS ISO, but not sure how to move forward from here.Please share your inputs.Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:09:08 GMTmohammed moinudheenhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspx[quote][b]mohammed moinudheen (9/29/2011)[/b][hr]Can you please help here..I am stuck in this section "Create and Configure the NAS VM"."Add a 2GB virtual hard disk and a network adapter. Bind the virtual NIC to whichever virtual switch you want to use for the iSCSI network (VMNET2 in my case). Add a virtual cd drive and select the "use iso image" option and click next.[b] Browse to the Freenas ISO image [/b]and click "Next", then click finish to complete adding the hardware. Power on the VM and boot the ISO image accepting all defaults. Once the NOS has booted (shown below), select option 9 from the menu."[b]1)[/b] I am unable to browse to the Freenas ISO image even though I copied the contents to my ISO folder. I downloaded the latest FreeNAS image from this link. [u]http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-7-Stable/[/u]So, when I click on CD-properties-> I am unable to navigate to the ISO file.[b]2)[/b] Also, while creating the Virtual machine.Under Hard Disk->Properties, the location is "[ISOs] NASTest/NASTest.vmdk" by default. Is this correct?[/quote]Just to update, I was able to move forward in step (1).Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:07:02 GMTmohammed moinudheenhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspxCan you please help here..I am stuck in this section "Create and Configure the NAS VM"."Add a 2GB virtual hard disk and a network adapter. Bind the virtual NIC to whichever virtual switch you want to use for the iSCSI network (VMNET2 in my case). Add a virtual cd drive and select the "use iso image" option and click next.[b] Browse to the Freenas ISO image [/b]and click "Next", then click finish to complete adding the hardware. Power on the VM and boot the ISO image accepting all defaults. Once the NOS has booted (shown below), select option 9 from the menu."[b]1)[/b] I am unable to browse to the Freenas ISO image even though I copied the contents to my ISO folder. I downloaded the latest FreeNAS image from this link. [u]http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-7-Stable/[/u]So, when I click on CD-properties-> I am unable to navigate to the ISO file.[b]2)[/b] Also, while creating the Virtual machine.Under Hard Disk->Properties, the location is "[ISOs] NASTest/NASTest.vmdk" by default. Is this correct?Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:41:48 GMTmohammed moinudheenhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspxIt is a good series of articles and the comment wasn't intended to be negative, I was just pointing out the possibility of settin up a VM cluster without creating a NAS server.Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:04:09 GMTnmoorehttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspx[quote][b]nmoore (8/15/2011)[/b][hr]Do you actually need the NAS element?[/quote]As I explain in the beginning of the article the whole point of the article is to give the reader experience in all areas of the cluster deployment, including creating and presenting storage\LUNs to the server[quote][b]nmoore (8/15/2011)[/b][hr]I know you can create the shared storage on VM Server just by tweaking the properties of the storage so it can be shared by two virtual hosts.[/quote]If your cluster OS is Windows 2003 then yes you can, Windows 2008 however requires either FC, iSCSI or SAS storage for the shared drives. As i mentioned above it doesn't teach the user much about storage and its configurations either.Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:58:23 GMTPerry Whittlehttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspxDo you actually need the NAS element? I know you can create the shared storage on VM Server just by tweaking the properties of the storage so it can be shared by two virtual hosts. I did this last year while following a white paper on building an Oracle RAC on VMWare. if I can find the details I will post them.Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:45:40 GMTnmoorehttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspx;-)Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:51:41 GMTPerry Whittlehttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspxYou are a genius. Thank you very much. I am able to move forward :-)Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:49:33 GMTguthey.adityahttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspxWhich browser are you using?Mon, 18 Jul 2011 23:45:13 GMTPerry Whittlehttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspxThanks for your prompt reply. I did exactly as you said. I even checked for permissions on the ISO folder, tried different versions of FreeNAS etc. But still getting the same issue. I guess I should be seeing the set up instructions on the console window if the image boots up successfully. But below is what I get when I click on the console window.Cannot access virtual machine console. The request timed out.The attempt to acquire a valid session ticket for "Virtual Machine" took longer than expected. If this problem persists, contact your system administrator.Is it because incompatibility with Windows7? Thanks again for your help.Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:55:08 GMTguthey.adityahttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspx[quote][b]guthey.aditya (7/18/2011)[/b][hr]I ambitiously started off trying to set up a windows cluster on VMWare and I came across your wonderful article. I am stuck on a small issue though. I am using Windows 7 and trying to power up the virtual machine. The boot image is FreeNAS as you mentioned in your article. I expected the NAS image to start the set up on power up of the Virtual machine. But nothing seems to be happening. I have little experience with VMWare. How can install the FreeNAS? Is there something that I am missing? In other words, Can you please elaborate on the following point made in your article. "Power on the VM and boot the ISO image accepting all defaults." How do I boot the ISO image is my question. Thanks,Aditya guthey.[/quote]Hi once you have created the NAS virtual machine, edit the settings for the virtual CD\DVD drive and point to the FreeNAS ISO which you should have downloaded and stored in your ISO repository. This is also the same for installing the Windows servers too. When creating the VM and adding a CD\DVD drive it will be set to use the host CD drive as default, you need to change this and point it to the relative ISO for the system you are installing. If you're still stuck let me know and I'll send you some more detailed screenshots. It may help you to read the VMWare Server 2.0 user guide PDF which is also available from VMWare when you obtain your downloadMon, 18 Jul 2011 04:21:36 GMTPerry Whittlehttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspxI ambitiously started off trying to set up a windows cluster on VMWare and I came across your wonderful article. I am stuck on a small issue though. I am using Windows 7 and trying to power up the virtual machine. The boot image is FreeNAS as you mentioned in your article. I expected the NAS image to start the set up on power up of the Virtual machine. But nothing seems to be happening. I have little experience with VMWare. How can install the FreeNAS? Is there something that I am missing? In other words, Can you please elaborate on the following point made in your article. "Power on the VM and boot the ISO image accepting all defaults." How do I boot the ISO image is my question. Thanks,Aditya guthey.Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:01:57 GMTguthey.adityahttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspx[quote][b]tobyteel (7/15/2011)[/b][hr]I think my earlier question may not have been clear, so I'll try to rephrase: In what situations would you want to use SQL server with the Microsoft cluster service? I understand why you might want to set up a test environment with VMs. I would like to know why you might want to use this architecture over other SQL server scale-out architectures (there seem to be a LOT of options). I really don't mean to beat this to death, but I really would like to know.[/quote]I'm not sure entirely why this is relevant, books online details the difference between the various HA options but we aim to please soLog Shipping[hr]commonly used to replicate a single database to a remote server for offloading of reporting applications, can also be used as a secondary failover database (manual interaction)Replication[hr]commonly used to replicate chosen parts of a database schema\data to a remote server for a variety of application (reporting, data distribution)Database Mirroring[hr]create a failover instance of a chosen database. Can also be used for reporting via the use of database snapshots. This is clustering merely at the database levelFailover Clustering[hr]Primary purpose is to guard against on site hardware failures. In the event of a server loss the whole instance may be quickly resumed on another hostFor further info please check Books Online. This article aims to give users the ability to create their own SQL Server cluster from scratch and in the process gain a little knowledge of the surrounding technologies (AD, DNS, ip addressing, Windows server, etc).Sun, 17 Jul 2011 04:52:38 GMTPerry Whittlehttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspxI think my earlier question may not have been clear, so I'll try to rephrase: In what situations would you want to use SQL server with the Microsoft cluster service? I understand why you might want to set up a test environment with VMs. I would like to know why you might want to use this architecture over other SQL server scale-out architectures (there seem to be a LOT of options). I really don't mean to beat this to death, but I really would like to know.Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:37:39 GMTtobyteelhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspx[quote][b]nalinabey (7/15/2011)[/b][hr]Hi perry,This Link is not working it seems?[/quote]try the link above now i have corrected it ;-)Fri, 15 Jul 2011 04:09:04 GMTPerry Whittlehttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1139522-1452-1.aspxHi perry,This Link is not working it seems?Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:45:06 GMTnalinabey