What's going on, guys? It is Bernardo. And it is time for us to set up our terra master
f2-423 NAS server. Super excited. You just saw a quick unboxing on this. This
guy right here. There's a lot of items inside the box. They gave us an Ethernet cable power
adapter and a power cable, which I'm going to hook this guy up real quick.
And they also gave us screws to lock down the hard drives. I inserted 2 250 gig SATA
drives on this for now because I want to set it up quickly. But I will be upgrading these
two hard drives to maybe a solid state drive - 4 terabytes, five terabytes. I
found a great deal on newegg. I'm definitely going to order those too, so I could get big
storage to start creating virtual machines and running on this particular NAS server.
So right now I'm going to hook it up.
Awesome. And then plug it into the power surge right here. And for the Ethernet, there's two
ports, which is pretty awesome. And I'm going to insert it on the top one and it looks like it
already it's booting up automatically, which is pretty weird. You would think you have to press
the power button to build it up or maybe because I had it like this power button is quite sensitive.
It looks like it's beeping, so that's booting up. I'm going to insert it to my Cisco switch
that I have over there and I'm going to scan my network to see if it received an
IP address so I can start configuring it. All right. So we got our Ethernet
cable right here. I'm going to plug it into my Cisco SG-200-08 gigabit Smart Switch.
And I'm actually going to put it at the in
port the last port. Awesome. And we're going to go inside my machine and scan the network.
So hopefully this NAS this TerraMaster F2-423 is set up to DHCP as an IP address and we can
start configuring it. All right. So we have the terra master F2-423 NAS server set up.
It's already part of my network. Before I plugged in the NAS server into my network,
I ran advanced IP scanner to just get a nice overview of what's inside my network. Once
I plugged in the NAS server and I let it rest there for a while,
I reran advanced IP scanner and I noticed a new, you know, a new machine, which is 192.168.1.18.
So I'm guessing that's basically the NAS server that we just hooked up. So I'm going to open up
my favorite browser, open up a new tab, and from here I'm going to type in that
IP address and just hit enter. So right now we need to start the initialization.
So we are going to click on START. You have two options custom and automatic.
I'm going to pick automatic right now and it is going to state that data on hard drives
will be deleted. Are you sure you want to continue? Sure. Why not? Lets confirm it is.
Checking the two hard drives that I inserted once it's done is going to state for me,
as stated, a warning. These hard drives are pretty old, so I might have some issues,
but for this video I just wanted to get it up and running for you guys and see how it works out.
So I'm definitely going to confirm it and it's going to start installing the
TOS operating system on the NAS. Once it starts downloading, installing, you're going to get this
right here. You need to configure the admin stuff. So change the device name, provider,
username and password, confirm it the time zones, give it a security email and verify the code.
Now I made a mistake here. My username. I spelled it wrong can't believe I spelled BTNHD wrong,
but I fixed it later on as well as I changed the IP address to something else. Once you're
done with your admin settings, just click on next. You're going to get a warning again,
another warning that everything within the hard drives are going to be deleted.
So just confirm it. It's going to format the raid and once it's done,
it gives you a nice little overview. Make sure you copy this information. Save it somewhere
their's two ways to access the NAS server. You could use the IP address or you could use a
full qualified domain for this video. I access it with the IP address, so just click on next.
It takes you to a log in portal. So just enter your username and password and just log in
and I love the interface, I like how it feels and everything is pretty cool. So we're going
to close that. We're going to go inside control panel and within control panel. We are going to
go inside volume. And the first thing that you're going to see that it is synchronizing
this part right here took forever, I would say maybe two or 3 hours once it's completed.
You're going to get this confirmation dialog box. Just click on confirm
and close it. Now with this video, I want to configure iSCSI target. It's not built
in within this NAS server, so we actually have to install it. So we're going to click
on applications and we're going to search for iSCSI and we're going to pick on iSCSI target.
Now this particular utility is from TerraMaster, so hopefully it's trustworthy and we're going to
select it and we're going to click on install it's going to start installing
once this completed you could close that and on the desktop of your NAS server,
you're going to see the iSCSI target icon. So just click on that. Now I did this a little
backwards and the reason why is because I actually created my LUN first then did
my target because if you create a target first, actually creates the LUN for you.
But for this video, again, I went a little backwards and I apologize for
that. So let's click on LUN. Lets click on Create and on the LUN Just click on
the textbox and it's going to auto populate something for you. You are able to basically
change the storage allocation I left it as the default and make sure you give it a capacity.
Now I gave it a capacity of 200 gigs and we are able to just basically click on next here,
get a nice little summary and then click apply your first LUN is configured. How easy is that?
So let's go back inside Target and let's click on Create. Now within here. What you got to do
is just click on the text box that says target. it's going to pre populate with something with
the IQN same thing just click on the text box it's going to auto populate with something.
So you only need to do much if you want to do chap certification or chap
authentication. Do it for this video. I didn't bother so I just click on Next
Here gives you a nice little summary of all the confirmed settings that you just
did on the previous section. So from here, I'm just going to continue click on next.
This is where I want you to create your iSCSI target. Now I'm going to hit no because we
already created it together. So click on apply. So now you're able to select it. Now we don't
have a map iSCSI LUN on this particular target. So we are just basically going
to click on edit and from here we're going to go on the third tab which is called LUN
and just select our LUN that we created at the very beginning and just apply it.
Bam Done. So our LUN is now mapped into that target. So before we head out and
go inside our VMware environment, we need to copy that IQN address.
So make sure you copy it right. Put in a notepad or something.
So logging into your VMware ESXi hypervisor and from here. We're going to go inside storage.
Within storage, we're going to go inside adapters and we're going to select iSCSI software adapter.
From there we are going to click on Configure iSCSI and there's two sections that we need
to focus. The first part is the static targets. So click on Add Static Target,
then click to add a name and just paste that IQN address in there. The next thing that
we need to do is click to add an address and then enter the IP address of the NAS server.
The next step that we need to do is click on Add Dynamic Target. So once you click on that,
we need to click on click to add an address and just provide your IP address and then
click on save configuration. Now the process takes a while behind the scene,
so hopefully everything should work out within your environment. You are
able to go inside the devices tab and you should see a new entry for your NAS server.
So select it and then click on new data store. Provide a name to your data store.
Click next here. I'm going to leave the partitioning option as the default,
but again you are able to change. It is really up to you how you want to configure it. You are
able to partition it again is up to you. Click next here a nice little summary and finish.
It's going to give you a nice little warning. It's going to reformat it and
erase all that content within that iSCSI LUN and hit. Yes and that's it your done
awesome. We have our new data store within our environment. So now I'm able to create
virtual machines and point those virtual machines into this data store. So that's it.
Hopefully you guys enjoy this video and I catch you guys on the next one this. peace out.