How to Install Openfiler

Installation of OpenFiler



Where can I download Openfiler Software?

You can download the openfiler from below link


Step by Step Openfiler Installation

Step1:

Create your virtual machine with configuration as shown below
                1 CPU
                1GB RAM
                500 GB HDD (this is virtual space and you Need not to have this much space physically availiable)
                1 NIC

     Visit my post how-to-create-new-virtual-machine to find step by step documentation to


VM Configuration for Openfiler
Step2:

       Power On your VM to boot with openfiler ISO image


Step3:

      On this page simply select skip by pressing tab key and click enter


Step4:

        Click Next


Step5:
     
        Click Next  (if you want to choose some other language eg. German , French etc then select appropriate language on this page)



Step6:

       Choose Option "Manually Partition with disk Druid" click Next. Ignore the warning in the popup block by clicking Yes



Step7:

        Click on New and create following partations

                    /            15GB
                   /boot      5 GB
                  /tmp        5 GB
                 /swap       5GB

    Note:- Leave the remaining space as Free space


Step8:

             Ensure "Active on Boot" is checked

             Click on edit and enter the IP address and Netmask as shown below



Step9:

            Enter hostname "storage.oracle.com" in my case.
            Ignore the warning by clicking continue and click Next



Step10:

      Choose appropriate Time Zone and click next



Step11:

       Enter root Password and click next


Step12:

           Click Next.
           Once you click Next the Installation will start. it will take few Minutes so just wait to complete the installation



Step13:

           As you can see Installation is completed. Click reboot to reboot the System



Step14:

        You Login to openfiler GUI page on port 446

        https://192.9.1.105:446

       Default User Name: openfiler
       Default Password : password


Step15:

         Home page after Login



Step16:

        Navigate to Service tab and enable iSCSI target Server



Step17:
    
       You can also enaböe iscsi target Server from CLI.
       Login to your openfiler Server with user root and given Password at the Installation time.

      service iscsi-target start
      chkconfig --Level 345 iscsi-target on






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