Now what to do is connect the iSCSI Initiator service to the target iSCSI server. In this example, the destination server is the
OpenFiler virtual machine that uses the virtual structure
vPhere .
Enter the domain name or destination iSCSI server IP address. In this example we will enter
wb-iscsi-san .
Next you will be asked to choose a destination server among the target servers found to make the connection. Suppose the destination server is
WB-iSCSI-WINDOWS (
Windows only).
Connect Windows 7 to the iSCSI SAN server Picture 6 Figure 5: Connecting to iSCSI Target.
Once selected and click
Connect , the iSCSI SAN drive will be added to Windows. Then click
Done .
You need to check the connections required in the
iSCSI Initiator (Figure 6).
Connect Windows 7 to the iSCSI SAN server Picture 7 Figure 6: Performing successful connection to Windows iSCSI SAN.
To ensure that the iSCSI SAN drive has been added, go to the
Volumes and Devices tab
and click the
Auto Configure button. This will help the iSCSI drive become more interactive.
Connect Windows 7 to the iSCSI SAN server Picture 8 Figure 7: Connecting the iSCSI device to the server.
Done click
OK to close the
iSCSI Initiator Properties dialog box.
Next go to
Computer Management and select
Disk Management .
If this is the first time running the
iSCSI Initiator service (of the Windows system), you will see a new disk. You will be asked to activate the drive before you can use it (Figure 8).
Connect Windows 7 to the iSCSI SAN server Picture 9 Figure 8: Click OK to activate the newly found drive.
Now, after accessing
Storage Manager, you will see the newly created drive (in this article named Disk 1).
In Figure 9 you can see that the drive is now online (
Online ) but it is still in the
Unallocated state.
Connect Windows 7 to the iSCSI SAN server Picture 10 Figure 9: New drive has not been split.
Next, what you need to do is right-click the
Unallocated area and select
New Simple Volume .
Connect Windows 7 to the iSCSI SAN server Picture 11 Figure 10: Create a new Simple Volume.
You will then see the
New Simple Volume Wizard appear as shown in Figure 11.
Connect Windows 7 to the iSCSI SAN server Picture 12 Figure 11: New Simple Volume Wizard.
In this Wizard, you must specify the size and enter a name for Simple Volume.
If you only create a Simple Disk drive, use up the available space for this drive. As in this example is 200GB.
Connect Windows 7 to the iSCSI SAN server Picture 13 Figure 12: Determine the size of the new Simple Volume.
Next enter the name and choose the format for this drive (Figures 13 and 14).
Connect Windows 7 to the iSCSI SAN server Picture 14 Figure 13: Enter the label for the drive.
Connect Windows 7 to the iSCSI SAN server Picture 15 Figure 14: Select the format.
You will then see the completion screen asking you to confirm the task you want to perform. If you have made the correct configuration, click on the
Finish button.
Now the previous Unallocated drive has been formatted and you will see its status changed to
Healthy in
NTFS format.
Connect Windows 7 to the iSCSI SAN server Picture 16 Figure 15: The new Simple Volume drive has been created.
Then this new drive will be displayed in My Computer.
Connect Windows 7 to the iSCSI SAN server Picture 17 Figure 16: The new drive is displayed in the My Computer window.
If the newly created drive appears in the My Computer window, it means that the new drive creation process was successful, which also means that Windows 7 has connected to the iSCSI server. In particular, we have connected the system to a completely free OpenFiler SAN. With features integrated on the SAN, Windows (and many other Windows devices connected to the SAN), you'll now get a lot of support at work.