Now that Hyper V 2012 is out, I plan on converting my hosted server's OS to windows server 2012 from esxi 4.1. Main reason being I can have live replication to an in-house server for backup. When trying to get the servers locally (in house network for when the remote host's OS is being changed) First thing I tried to do is use the Windows Virtual Machine Converter. I had no success with this as I ran into a networking issue and I felt it would be faster to use a different method than continue troublehsooting. With my current router setup, I have a VPN tunnel, with all ports open but the trafffic does not use NAT. I have a few questions I would love if someone could point me in the right dirrection, or even better answer. (I Will mark helpful posts as helpful, I Promise!) The reason I have to even post this is because we are working with limited storage where the server is being hosted. 1TB to be exact, and I am trying to get some local hard drive space available to the remote esxi server.
So a few things....
#1 The ESXI 4.1 Firewall: At various times I have been doing things, I always seem to run into port issues. Does the server need to be rebooted for the Daemon to start after the port is "opened". Even after I open ports such as "NFS" the outgoing connection is added but not the incoming connection. When I see the daemon status from the GUI it just said N/A. Wich brings me to my next question
#2 Can I setup FreeNAS to mount as a database on my remote servers over my VPN tunnel. I tried FreeNAS with ISCSI first but it could not be found. I decided to try and create a Unix NFS and mount that. When I do that I get the error "Call "HostDatastoreSystem.CreateNasDatastore" for object "ha-datastoresystem" on ESX "Public Ip Here" failed."
#3 Is there a better method for what I am trying to accomplish?
Thank you for reading. Thank you in advance for any support I get!
-Ben