Thursday March 19, 2009 |
Thursday March 19, 2009 Installing the Amber Road simulator on a LaptopSun's Open Storage software comes as an appliance from http://www.sun.com. Currently available as a VMware image, and I now have it running on my trusty laptop.  The management panel in in the browser, the appliance console is the black window, I have started the CIFS service, mounted a file system using SMB onto my host image (the windows folder) and I have opend a file using notepad. It was easier to do than attach my Vista systems to my legacy home windows network. I had to install VMware Player first and when the VM starts for the first time, you are offered a text menu to install the network identity and point to the network gateways. I was nervous about VMware because I wasn't sure about what VMware does to implement the network interface. This wiki page has been created by the FISHworks team to help you, which discusses how you configure each of the four netowrk interfaces and I advise you to think hard about the node name and domain name as I havn't yet worked out how to change it. The wiki's advice on the network gateways didn't work for me so I used 192.168.1.1 dor both the default gateway and DNS server. Anyway the boot screen looks like this,  I am off to install it on my home server and maybe I'll try the Virtual Box version and use the appliance to manage my home network storage, I think its legal, but in order to get the performance advantage at scale, you'll need to buy the hardware. tags: technology software unifiedstorage simulator amberroad vmware sunw storage howto 
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It works great on virtualbox... and with the forthcoming vbox 2.2 release (now in beta) there will be OVF support (for virtual appliances) and a new host-only networking mode (useful to run the demo when you are not connected).
Posted by Danilo Poccia on March 19, 2009 at 08:00 AM PDT #