A multi-part article at eWeek covers building a FrankenBox and FrankenNAS to be used as a virtualization test bed.
"The recession is putting pressure on IT administrators to cut costs at the same time that demands from the business side continue to grow. Using mostly free software and a collection of out-of-date hardware lying around, eWEEK Labs built a flexible (albeit somewhat underpowered) virtual machine test bed. Below, we offer the steps we took to build an OpenFiler iSCSI NAS server and a VMware ESXi bare metal virtualization instance, plus the settings to get the two working together."
- Part I: Hardware and Layout
- Part II: OpenFiler Installation
- Part III: OpenFiler Configuration
- Part IV: ESXi Installation on a USB Flash Drive
- Part V: Configure ESXi
Enjoy!
