Configuring Openfiler iSCSI and VMware Data Recover (vDR)
If you have some extra hardware floating around with reasonable disk space you can use it as a cheap iSCSI device to store non-critical VM backups using VDR. The process is pretty easy and works really well. I have several of these running in our lab, including some that are Openfiler running as a VM on ESX 5 and even then performance is pretty good. This article assumes that you already have Openfiler (http://www.openfiler.com/community/download) installed on a piece of hardware…