Comments on: x4100 + SunRay + VMware: Virtual Lab http://blog.louspringer.com/2006/10/25/x4100-sunray-vmware-virtual-lab/ I'm getting there. What's the rush? It's about the journey, right? Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:31:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Inchoate Curmudgeon » Blog Archive » VMware Links: Solaris as a 32 bit VMware Guest and VDI http://blog.louspringer.com/2006/10/25/x4100-sunray-vmware-virtual-lab/#comment-6305 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:30:56 +0000 http://blog.louspringer.com/2006/10/25/x4100-sunray-vmware-virtual-lab/#comment-6305 [...] Since I’m posting these, I should also refer to several other related articles I’m aware of. There are some instructions for a Sun Ray VDI solution on the Sun Ray User’s Group Wiki site called the “VDA Cookbook“. The virtual lab I have set up uses a subset of these instructions. [...] […] Since I’m posting these, I should also refer to several other related articles I’m aware of. There are some instructions for a Sun Ray VDI solution on the Sun Ray User’s Group Wiki site called the “VDA Cookbook“. The virtual lab I have set up uses a subset of these instructions. […]

]]> by: Inchoate Curmudgeon » Blog Archive » AMPing up Zones and ZFS: Setting Up ZFS http://blog.louspringer.com/2006/10/25/x4100-sunray-vmware-virtual-lab/#comment-4348 Thu, 24 May 2007 18:34:29 +0000 http://blog.louspringer.com/2006/10/25/x4100-sunray-vmware-virtual-lab/#comment-4348 [...] I’m setting up a development environment on a Solaris x86 machine (well, actually a VMware virtual machine) and have a couple of goals: [...] […] I’m setting up a development environment on a Solaris x86 machine (well, actually a VMware virtual machine) and have a couple of goals: […]

]]> by: Lou http://blog.louspringer.com/2006/10/25/x4100-sunray-vmware-virtual-lab/#comment-3575 Tue, 01 May 2007 04:00:38 +0000 http://blog.louspringer.com/2006/10/25/x4100-sunray-vmware-virtual-lab/#comment-3575 I set up a shared LAN configuration, but what you want to do shouldn't be too difficult. You can set up a dedicated interface and network for SRSS, but you would have to either have two separate physical Ethernet ports on the VMware ESX server, or you would need a VLAN capable switch and to set up multiple VLANs. The simpler way to go would be to set up multiple physical Ethernet ports on your ESX server, and connect them to separate virtual switches on separate networks. You could then put multiple virtual NICs on your Solaris 10 SRSS server, connect one virtual NIC to each network, and set up the SunRays on one of the two networks. I set up a shared LAN configuration, but what you want to do shouldn’t be too difficult.

You can set up a dedicated interface and network for SRSS, but you would have to either have two separate physical Ethernet ports on the VMware ESX server, or you would need a VLAN capable switch and to set up multiple VLANs.

The simpler way to go would be to set up multiple physical Ethernet ports on your ESX server, and connect them to separate virtual switches on separate networks. You could then put multiple virtual NICs on your Solaris 10 SRSS server, connect one virtual NIC to each network, and set up the SunRays on one of the two networks.

]]> by: Kelley Shaw http://blog.louspringer.com/2006/10/25/x4100-sunray-vmware-virtual-lab/#comment-3573 Tue, 01 May 2007 02:25:47 +0000 http://blog.louspringer.com/2006/10/25/x4100-sunray-vmware-virtual-lab/#comment-3573 Very cool! I am trying to do something similar. I want to configure SRSS 3.1 on my Solaris 10 VM similar to the way you have. From your diagram, it looks like you only have one network connection from the Solaris VM to the virtual switch. Does this mean that you used the "LAN configuration" when setting up SRSS (i.e. "utadm -A", as opposed to a dedicated interface using "utadm -a"). I was trying to figure out how to create a dedicated interface for the SunRays on the Solaris 10 VM, but since I am new to VMware, I wasn't sure how to do that--possibly VLANing the virtual switch? Any insight based on your experience that you can share is greatly appreciated! Very cool! I am trying to do something similar. I want to configure SRSS 3.1 on my Solaris 10 VM similar to the way you have. From your diagram, it looks like you only have one network connection from the Solaris VM to the virtual switch. Does this mean that you used the “LAN configuration” when setting up SRSS (i.e. “utadm -A”, as opposed to a dedicated interface using “utadm -a”). I was trying to figure out how to create a dedicated interface for the SunRays on the Solaris 10 VM, but since I am new to VMware, I wasn’t sure how to do that–possibly VLANing the virtual switch? Any insight based on your experience that you can share is greatly appreciated!

]]> by: Lou http://blog.louspringer.com/2006/10/25/x4100-sunray-vmware-virtual-lab/#comment-1071 Sat, 02 Dec 2006 19:55:37 +0000 http://blog.louspringer.com/2006/10/25/x4100-sunray-vmware-virtual-lab/#comment-1071 No, I haven't had that problem. My initial install was pretty painless, just following instructions. I'm on Solaris 10 6/06. There were some recommended patches I applied. You should post a question to the SunRay Users group mailing list at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://filibeto.org/sun/sunray-users/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://filibeto.org/sun/sunray-users/index.html</a>. They are very knowedgable and the list is watched by a several of the SunRay engineers. No, I haven’t had that problem. My initial install was pretty painless, just following instructions. I’m on Solaris 10 6/06. There were some recommended patches I applied.

You should post a question to the SunRay Users group mailing list at http://filibeto.org/sun/sunray-users/index.html. They are very knowedgable and the list is watched by a several of the SunRay engineers.

]]> by: Rae Yip http://blog.louspringer.com/2006/10/25/x4100-sunray-vmware-virtual-lab/#comment-1069 Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:51:01 +0000 http://blog.louspringer.com/2006/10/25/x4100-sunray-vmware-virtual-lab/#comment-1069 I'm trying to run SRSS 3.1 on VMWare ESX 3, and running into a problem where /dev/sunray isn't available because the driver is failing to attach. Just wondering if you ran into a similar problem and found a workaround? From what I understand this issue prevents SRSS from running inside a Solaris 10 zone as well. I’m trying to run SRSS 3.1 on VMWare ESX 3, and running into a problem where /dev/sunray isn’t available because the driver is failing to attach.

Just wondering if you ran into a similar problem and found a workaround? From what I understand this issue prevents SRSS from running inside a Solaris 10 zone as well.

]]> by: Inchoate Curmudgeon http://blog.louspringer.com/2006/10/25/x4100-sunray-vmware-virtual-lab/#comment-1006 Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:55:03 +0000 http://blog.louspringer.com/2006/10/25/x4100-sunray-vmware-virtual-lab/#comment-1006 <strong>Apple Cinema Display Works with SunRay 1G!...</strong> I’ve got my 23″ Cinema Dsiplay working with the SunRay 1G. It was a bit of an RTFM thing. You must configure the SunRay for auto-resolution for the X piece /opt/SUNWut/bin/utxconfig -r auto and then set the default resolution for the SunRay... Apple Cinema Display Works with SunRay 1G!…

I’ve got my 23″ Cinema Dsiplay working with the SunRay 1G. It was a bit of an RTFM thing. You must configure the SunRay for auto-resolution for the X piece /opt/SUNWut/bin/utxconfig -r auto and then set the default resolution for the SunRay…

]]> by: Lou http://blog.louspringer.com/2006/10/25/x4100-sunray-vmware-virtual-lab/#comment-999 Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:14:02 +0000 http://blog.louspringer.com/2006/10/25/x4100-sunray-vmware-virtual-lab/#comment-999 If the driver and the (virtual) device support it, you can set these things, but I haven't tried it. Changing MTU, or changing it to something greater than 1400, requires all the switches between the endpoints to support it to be effective. I'd think this includes the virtual switch in the VMware lan that the virtual machine is on, as well as the physical card on the host ESX server. I need to look into this some more since I ran a jumbo frames configuration issue with the iSCSI storage machine I built. This is a separate physical box that I'm using for additional storage. It is an iSCSI target. The (cheap) NIC in that machine supports jumbo frames, but the NICs on my x4100 apparently do not with ESX server. I hope I'm missing something. Properly configured jumbo frames would be very helpful for the iSCSI traffic. If the driver and the (virtual) device support it, you can set these things, but I haven’t tried it. Changing MTU, or changing it to something greater than 1400, requires all the switches between the endpoints to support it to be effective. I’d think this includes the virtual switch in the VMware lan that the virtual machine is on, as well as the physical card on the host ESX server.

I need to look into this some more since I ran a jumbo frames configuration issue with the iSCSI storage machine I built. This is a separate physical box that I’m using for additional storage. It is an iSCSI target. The (cheap) NIC in that machine supports jumbo frames, but the NICs on my x4100 apparently do not with ESX server. I hope I’m missing something. Properly configured jumbo frames would be very helpful for the iSCSI traffic.

]]> by: Lou http://blog.louspringer.com/2006/10/25/x4100-sunray-vmware-virtual-lab/#comment-998 Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:12:04 +0000 http://blog.louspringer.com/2006/10/25/x4100-sunray-vmware-virtual-lab/#comment-998 If the driver and the (virtual) device support it, you can set these things, but I haven't tried it. Changing MTU, or changing it to something greater than 1400, requires all the switches between the endpoints to support it to be effective. I'd think this includes the virtual switch in the VMware lan that the virtual machine is on, as well as the physical card on the host ESX server. I need to look into this some more since I ran into a jumbo frames configuration issue with the iSCSI storage machine I built. This is a separate physical box that I'm using for additional storage. It is an iSCSI target. The (cheap) NIC in that machine supports jumbo frames, but the NICs on my x4100 apparently do not with ESX server. I hope I'm missing something. Properly configured jumbo frames would be very helpful for the iSCSI traffic. If the driver and the (virtual) device support it, you can set these things, but I haven’t tried it. Changing MTU, or changing it to something greater than 1400, requires all the switches between the endpoints to support it to be effective. I’d think this includes the virtual switch in the VMware lan that the virtual machine is on, as well as the physical card on the host ESX server.

I need to look into this some more since I ran into a jumbo frames configuration issue with the iSCSI storage machine I built. This is a separate physical box that I’m using for additional storage. It is an iSCSI target. The (cheap) NIC in that machine supports jumbo frames, but the NICs on my x4100 apparently do not with ESX server. I hope I’m missing something. Properly configured jumbo frames would be very helpful for the iSCSI traffic.

]]> by: Curt Cox http://blog.louspringer.com/2006/10/25/x4100-sunray-vmware-virtual-lab/#comment-988 Fri, 10 Nov 2006 02:32:34 +0000 http://blog.louspringer.com/2006/10/25/x4100-sunray-vmware-virtual-lab/#comment-988 Is "cAos Linux vm running DHCP, bastion SSH and caching DNS" so you can set MTU? Is “cAos Linux vm running DHCP, bastion SSH and caching DNS” so you can set MTU?

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