On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Simon Grinberg <simon at 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.