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 Post subject: NASLite and VMware ESX
PostPosted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:06 pm 
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Hello,

I'm running VMware ESXi 3 on one server and Naslite on another server as a NAS to store some of the virtual machines. ESX connects up to the datastore on NASLite using NFS and loads the virtual machines. This seems to work great, except that every couple of days, the virtual machines stored on the NASLite box freeze up and have no disk access. The VM's are still running, but they act like their hard drives are missing. In fact, the only way to power them down is to go into the console and kill them. Then they will not restart, only giving me a general error. I have to unregister the VM's and then add them back. They boot up fine after that, however it's only a matter of time before they all crash again.

Does anyone else run NASLite and ESX? It seems like a great idea, but this crashing thing is driving me crazy. It almost seems like the two are getting 'out of sync' somehow.

A little more info: This setup worked perfectly when I was running VMware Server from a Windows machine, using SMB to get into the NASLite server. Also, the ESX server has internal drives that run VM's and they have never had any problems at all.

Thank you in advance for any help!


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