I finally got the VMware View Security server working correctly so that I could use it for our company. Here are some tips for you when working with it.
On the Main Connection Server make a config file using the top right corner of the something. Export the config file to the desktop.
Open the Security Server and navigate to the location of the folder to put the file.
Restart the service and then try to connect from outside the network. Remember that only RDP will work through the security server.
I use Ubuntu desktop but I find that when it comes to virtualization I prefer to use Ubuntu Server more because of the small foot print and to make things much leaner.
Since the Desktop version is the only one that will auto mount the tools in ESX/ESXi implementations you need to get a copy of the tar.gz file from one of the Desktop versions and then SCP it over to the server version unpack it and then run the installer.
You need some prerequisite tools for it to install.
Then you can simple run the installer from the TAR.GZ file. I ran into some compile issues but in the end it all worked. If I find some more notes then I will post them here, keep coming back.
I have been working on an iSCSI device. I wanted to mount the volumes for making backups of the machines using rsync to another machine. I needed to load the VMFS3 tools (vmfs-tools) to mount the drive to make this work. Here is what I installed.
NOTE: This command will run on Ubuntu 9.10 and higher
apt-get install vmfs-tools |
Once you install the vmfs-tool then you can create a folder in “/mnt/nas” and the assuming that there is a drive located at “/dev/sdb1″
Now you can mount the drive with this command
vmfs-fuse /dev/sdb1 /mnt/nas |
You will need to change the fstab so it will mount on boot as well. Check my other blog posting for that and the iSCSI information. [I will update this soon with the fstab commands]
UPDATED
Found some more information online for VMFS tools. Not sure how to use these command once installed. I recommend upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 or higher.
apt-get install open-vm-source |
OR
apt-get install open-vm-tools |