Saturday, January 1, 2011

Connecting Windows Server 2008 to iSCSI TARGET in Open Filer


Login to the Admin console of openfiler using your web browser at: https://x.x.x.x:446
Then move to Service and enable iSCSI initiator



You can get a visual scenario of hard disk connected to your open filer by clicking volume tab----> Block devices

In open filer you can group different hard disk shown above and provide a common name for reference. This can be done in volume groups in open filer and just put a tick on the hard disk you need to group and a give a name as you like. Here am going to give as TEST and then add.



In open filer you can group different hard disk shown above and provide a common name for reference. This can be done in volume groups in open filer and just put a tick on the hard disk u need to group and a give a name as you like. Here am going to give as TEST and then add.


This volume group now represents as a single hard disk and now you can separate the hard disk based on your requirement. For creating a new volume specify it size, name and file type. For making the volume as iscsi target chose file type as ISCSI and create it


After selecting target name SAMPLE, map the previously created hard disk named SAMPLE to iSCSI taget from LUN Mapping


For accessing the issci target from windows server 2008 move to start--->adminstartive tools --->iSCSI initator.In issci initator chose Discovery --->add portal then provide the ip address of openfiler and the defalt port is 3260 then click ok.
Go to the Targets tab and click Refresh. You should see the name of your iSCSI Target in the list.Select your target server and click Log on.Check to automatically restore this connection when the computer starts and click OK.


You should now see that you are Connected.
Now click on Administrative Tools, open Computer Management, and click on Storage -> Disk Management.


Then click ok.You should now see the new disk in your Disk Manager.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

You may want to add that you have to use the latest OF beta 2.9/3.0 if you want to use iSCSI target for MS clustering.

Unknown said...

Nice step by step. This helped out a lot with my current project at work.

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