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Detailed End-to-End iSCSI Setup
e In the iSCSI Initiator identifiers screen, choose the identifier and
click Next.
f The Completing the Create iSCSI Target Wizard screen appears
indicating that the iSCSI Target has been created.
The Microsoft iSCSI Software Target Console now displays the
newly-created iSCSI Target. The Console also displays the devices
available for the iSCSI Targets. The storage that is used by the iSCSI
Initiators (application hosts) are defined in a later step when the Virtual
Disks are created.
4 Create and assign Virtual Disks to the Target—You must create Virtual
Disks on the iSCSI Targets for Microsoft-based iSCSI Target solutions.
The Virtual Disks represent the storage volumes that the iSCSI Initiators
use. The maximum capacity represented by all the Virtual Disks on a given
iSCSI Target on a Microsoft-based iSCSI Target solution is 2 terabytes
(2 TB) per Target.
The following procedure describes the procedure to create a Virtual Disk.
In this example, a 100 GB Virtual Disk and a 200 GB Virtual Disk are
created on the iSCSI Target. The iSCSI Initiators identify these two
Virtual Disks as volumes over the TCP/IP network.
a Right-click on the Target name to launch the Create Virtual Disk
Wizard.
b Click Next. The File screen appears.
Create the Virtual Disk on the internal disk volume (the RAID
volumes available from the attached storage array) that is available to
the iSCSI Target.
NOTE:
In the File screen, use the Browse option to choose the internal disk
volume using browse and enter a name for Virtual Disk file with a .vhd
extension.
c Click Next. The Size screen appears.
The size of the Virtual Disk depends on the needs of the application
on the host server. Choose the size for the Virtual Disk and click Next.
For this example, we choose a size of 100 GB from the available 501
GB on this volume.
d The Description screen appears. The Description field is optional.
However, enter a description for better management. Click Next.