3 Configure Hyper-V with StarWind

StarWind provide the Fee version of ISCSI software. I am going to use to service my SAN environment for Hyper-V.

The interface is relative easy to create the san disk.

Now, Let try to attached the SAN to the Windows Host.

1. Make sure iSCSI service is running and started automatically

SC QC MSiSCSI

2. First, we need to make the Windows server find the SAN.

You can use iscsicpl

Or Powershell or even iSCSIcli

iSCSIcli QAddTargetPortal <Storage Server>

iSCSIcli ListTargets 

-- You should see the iQN of the target server 

iSCSIcli QloginTarget <Target IQN> 

-- You should see a connection and session id 

iSCSIcli PersistentLoginTarget <target_iqn> T * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 0 

-- There are 15 “space” + “*” 

-- You do this so you can survive a reboot 

iSCSIcli ListPersistentTargets 

-- You should see a target 

-- Check iSCSI status 

iSCSIcli ReportTargetMappings 

3. Use diskpart to create the partition, mount the disk

select disk 1 

attribute disk clear readonly 

online disk 

create part primary 

select part 1 

assign letter=Q 

Other useful command to check the disk status

• LIST Disk
  LIST Partition
  LIST Volume
• SELECT Disk n
  SELECT Volume n
  SELECT Partition n
• DETAIL Disk
  DETAIL Partition
  DETAIL volume
  ASSIGN (allocate the next free drive letter)
  ASSIGN LETTER=l (Choose a free letter)
• CREATE PARTITION Primary Size=50000 (50 GB)
  CREATE PARTITION Extended Size=25000
  CREATE PARTITION logical Size=25000
• DELETE Partition

Reference

http://blogs.technet.com/b/aralves/archive/2008/03/31/building-a-failover-cluster-with-server-core-part-2.aspx 

http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2010/02/cheatsheet-using-diskpart-on-a-server-core-installation-4/