Isilon Simulator 8.0.0

Hi,

If you want Isilon simulator on ESXi you have to use VMware Converter Manager.

This tool will convert the OVA to run under standard ESX cluster.

Regards.

Pascal

old blog but should still work for 8.0

Deploying virtual Isilon on ESXi | Storage Monkey

Hey thanks for the suggestions..

At any rate, I already figured this out on my own over the weekend. I wound up deploying the cluster  in Workstation 12 (perhaps this version has the VMware Converter Manager built-in or something), I then set up the 3-node cluster exactly how I wanted, then cloned them by right-clicking each virtual machine, select Manage > Clone (it wouldn't let me upload these copies directly, but only the clones), then I had to first select the upgrade virtual hardware to the 'Workstation 6.5-7.x' version (to satisfy the destination compatibility requirement), and then final step is to right-click each virtual machine, select Manage > Upload   ...which lets you upload it to an ESXi host, and in my case I uploaded it to a vSphere 6 host (didn't work using the vCenter IP, but had to upload to ESXi host directly).

These steps worked great. I first did an 8.0.0.0 one but it would not allow to register to ViPR, so I retried another Isilon 7.2.0.0 cluster and that works to register the storage with ViPR.

Again, thanks for your suggestions.. As we all know, in VMware world there are many times multiple ways to get the job done. It looks like we have 3 ways listed here..

Hello

What did you configure for low and high ip address? We have a 255.255.254.0 subnet mask.

Thanks