what do you want to test ? Did you download OneFS administration guide ?

Waiting for more information from Khkris.

I would definitely recommend a multi-core machine with 4G+ of RAM ;8G would do nicely.  An SSD will also greatly help performance when running the virtual nodes.

Cheers,

Matt

Thanks for reply.  We are trying to host 2 Virtual Isilon clusters on vCenter and and perform SyncIQ replications accross clusters.

virtual Isilon ova template was 1G of memory and 1 vCPU, very modest requirements ..can run it on your pc in VMware workstation if you wanted to.

To run virtual nodes on an ESX server, they must be converted with the converter tool from VMware. Use the converter tool for vCenter or download and install VMware vCenter Converter standalone. Both are free.

Once you have the VM on your ESX server, if you want to run more than one node, you will then just convert it to a template and create new VMs from that template.

Thanks for the information Jeffey.

Is stand alone converter tool for vCenter free to use in client environment? Any pre-requirements to consider for installation ?

Thanks for the suggestions.

i think i tried and it was complaining about missing disks ( i think the original config is for VMware Workstation)

It is really informative and good document. Thanks Dynamox.

I have question:  Can we deploy .vmx on to Vcenter directly without standalone converter?

Thanks

Dynamox is correct, as usual.  Run it through the converter to deploy on ESXi.  It works very well.  I run two ESXi servers in my home lab, each running 4-node virtual Isilon clusters.  The converter is very handy and allows you to 'rerun' a conversion job with the same parameters, which is nice for deploying multiple VM instances in parallel.

Enjoy the VM.  One advantage of running it on ESXi is that you can change the sizes of the four disks used to hold /ifs. In my home lab I make them 64GB each, so the node has 256GB of storage and in turn the 4-node cluster is 1 TB.  Under Fusion or Workstation this is not possible.

I downloaded Virtual Nodes (in VMX format)  from support.  Found following link for adding inventory to vcenter.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?

language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1006160http://

Not sure wheather VMX can be deployed with out converter tools ?

Thanks

copy it do datastore (using datastore browser tool or winscp) and then try to add it to inventory.