Configuring an iSCSI initiator connection
Turning on your first iSCSI target is great, but so far you aren't using that storage for anything. Let's take it a step further and connect a server to that storage so that it can start to be used. The device connecting to an iSCSI target is called an iSCSI initiator. We are going to take a file server in our environment and configure it to connect over the network using iSCSI to our target server. When finished, we will have a new hard disk attached to our server, even though it is really just block storage from the iSCSI target that is being accessed via the network.
Getting ready
We have already configured one Windows Server 2016 to be an iSCSI target, and are now configuring a second 2016 box as our iSCSI initiator that will be connecting to the target.
How to do it…
Follow along to create the iSCSI initiator connection on our FILE2 server:
- Launch Server Manager. Open up the Tools menu and choose iSCSI Initiator.
- If you have...
