Category Archives: ISCSI

Configuring multiple ISCSI Connections for Multipath IO using PowerShell.

This post will be focused mainly on the ISCSI Initiator host and configuring multipath IO paths to an ISCSI Target. The ISCSI Target portal has already been configured with 2 network paths for ISCSI. The ISCSI Service by default is … Continue reading

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Configuring Windows Server 2012 as an iSCSI Target SAN in a Two Host Failover Cluster Part 5

As it turns out, I already have two Virtual machines running on one of the cluster nodes. I set these up before the cluster creation. The VMs are currently not cluster roles/resources. I will go ahead and make one of … Continue reading

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Configuring Windows Server 2012 as an iSCSI Target SAN in a Two Host Failover Cluster Part 4

Here we go over my steps for the actual cluster creation, cluster and node validation, quorum setup and cluster shared volume configuration.We have by running a cluster validation on each node. This can be achieved with the following cmdlets: Test-Cluster … Continue reading

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Configuring Windows Server 2012 as an iSCSI Target SAN in a Two Host Failover Cluster Part 3

In the next part of the series, we will create a simple 1GB iSCSI virtual disk, assign it to the already configured target and verify the disk is visible to the iSCSI initiators. New-IscsiVirtualDisk -Description “Witness Disk” -Path g:\iscsivirtualdisks\Witness00.vhd -Size … Continue reading

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Configuring Windows Server 2012 as an iSCSI Target SAN in a Two Host Failover Cluster Part 2

In this part of the series, we will configure two hosts as iSCSI initiators. The hosts have already been defined at the Target and ready to log on. Both hosts are running WS 2012 Hyper-v Core and I made sure to … Continue reading

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Configuring Windows Server 2012 as an iSCSI Target SAN in a Two Host Failover Cluster Part 1

We’re currently working on virtualizing a large number of our servers and going through the process of deciding whether to deploy a 3rd party SAN or WS 2012 iSCSI Target in production. In the meantime, I have gone ahead and … Continue reading

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