On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Simon Grinberg simon@redhat.com wrote:
What I understand with from the thread you are trying to use openfiler as your target, have you considered tgt? (I'm using this on all my setups) Farther more, please try to avoid exposing storage from a VMware workstation VM, the IO performance is far from being satisfactory and may result in poor evaluation experience. If you must have your storage in a VM then it's better to use KVM virtual machine (Found both on Centos or RHEL distributions), use virtio disk and network, and install RHEL/Centos 5.5 guests. Alternative, if you must use VMware is to use ESXi.
For RHEL 5 and CentOS 5, I found KVM to be useless. The management tool is not good, and the bridged networking requirement is very awkward, and it performed like a dog being beaten with a missing leg.
I'm interested in trying it for RHEL 6 and CentOS 6, but until then I'm personally relying on VMWare ESX for institution virtualization, and Virtualbox because it's a much more usable configuration interface tool and uses "Right-Ctrl" to release the mouse from the virtualized console instead of "Ctrl-Alt". VMWare could learn a lot from Sun's and now Oracle's efforts with that tool.