Windows 2012 comes with the ISCSI target as a built in component, you have to just install the roles and make use of that.
How to install the ISCSI target role
1. Open Server Manager and Click Add Roles and Features
2. on Add Roles and features wizard Click next
3. Select Role based or feature based installation and click next
4. Click select a server from server pool option and select the server which is going to be running as iscsi target and click next
5. Expand file and storage services and select ISCSI Target server and click next
6. on Add roles and feature wizard , check the box include management tools and click Add features
7. Click next
8. Click next on the next window and click install
How to configure the ISCI target
1. Open Server manager and click File and Storage Service
2. Click ISCSI Virtual Disks option
3. Click the “Launch the new virtual disk Wizard to create a virtual disk”
4. Select the option “type a custom path “
5. Browse to the path you want to create a target for example if you connect the external hard drive and the drive letter is F . then put the path F:\ISCSI-disk1 and click next.
6. On Specify ISCSI Virtual disk name you can give any name for example you can give it as VMdatastore1 or Hypervdatastore1
7. Click next
8. Specify the size of the disk for example 256 GB
9. Now select new ISCSI target option
10. Give any target name, if you using this for vmware cluster give that cluster name or if you using for hyperv cluster give that name
11. Click Add to add the initiators (Initiator will be your esxi host IQN or the iscsi ip address assigned to the esxi port group or if you are using hyperv then it should be the hyperv server ip address or the iqn)
12. Select the option “ Enter a value for the selected type” and select the type as IP address if you want to add ip or select IQN if you want to add ISCSI qualified name (IQN)
13. Click Next
14. Enable authentication, Enable the authentication based on your company policy , if you don’t have any idea then just click next without checking any option on this screen
15. Just go through the configuration overview which you select so far and click create
16. Click close
How to add access the ISCSI disks now
1. Goto the server which you want to configure the ISCSI disk
2. Goto server manager click on TOOLS and select issi initiator
3. If the ISCSI service is not running then it will ask for the service start prompt click yes to start the ISCSI service
4. On the target tab put the ip address of your ISCSI target server name and click quick connect
5. Once it is able to connect to the target then the IQN of the target is listed under the quick connect and click done
6. Goto disk management and rescan the disk.
How to install the ISCSI target role
1. Open Server Manager and Click Add Roles and Features
2. on Add Roles and features wizard Click next
3. Select Role based or feature based installation and click next
4. Click select a server from server pool option and select the server which is going to be running as iscsi target and click next
5. Expand file and storage services and select ISCSI Target server and click next
6. on Add roles and feature wizard , check the box include management tools and click Add features
7. Click next
8. Click next on the next window and click install
How to configure the ISCI target
1. Open Server manager and click File and Storage Service
2. Click ISCSI Virtual Disks option
3. Click the “Launch the new virtual disk Wizard to create a virtual disk”
4. Select the option “type a custom path “
5. Browse to the path you want to create a target for example if you connect the external hard drive and the drive letter is F . then put the path F:\ISCSI-disk1 and click next.
6. On Specify ISCSI Virtual disk name you can give any name for example you can give it as VMdatastore1 or Hypervdatastore1
7. Click next
8. Specify the size of the disk for example 256 GB
9. Now select new ISCSI target option
10. Give any target name, if you using this for vmware cluster give that cluster name or if you using for hyperv cluster give that name
11. Click Add to add the initiators (Initiator will be your esxi host IQN or the iscsi ip address assigned to the esxi port group or if you are using hyperv then it should be the hyperv server ip address or the iqn)
12. Select the option “ Enter a value for the selected type” and select the type as IP address if you want to add ip or select IQN if you want to add ISCSI qualified name (IQN)
13. Click Next
14. Enable authentication, Enable the authentication based on your company policy , if you don’t have any idea then just click next without checking any option on this screen
15. Just go through the configuration overview which you select so far and click create
16. Click close
How to add access the ISCSI disks now
1. Goto the server which you want to configure the ISCSI disk
2. Goto server manager click on TOOLS and select issi initiator
3. If the ISCSI service is not running then it will ask for the service start prompt click yes to start the ISCSI service
4. On the target tab put the ip address of your ISCSI target server name and click quick connect
5. Once it is able to connect to the target then the IQN of the target is listed under the quick connect and click done
6. Goto disk management and rescan the disk.
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