Using an iSCSI target

Windows provides a built-in iSCSI client component you use the Connect-IscsiTarget command to connect the iSCSI client to the iSCSI server and start using the disk as if it were attached locally.

Getting ready

This recipe uses SRV1, a domain-joined host in the Reskit.Org domain, on which you have installed PowerShell 7 and VS Code. You also use SS1 and should have DC1 online. You previously created an iSCSI target (on SS1), and now you use the built-in iSCSI initiator to access the iSCSI disk. You run this recipe on SRV1.

How to do it...

1. Adjusting the iSCSI service to auto-start, then starting the service

   Set-Service MSiSCSI -StartupType 'Automatic'
   Start-Service MSiSCSI
   

2. Setting up the portal to SS1

   $PHT = @{
     TargetPortalAddress     = 'SS1.Reskit.Org&apos...