Clustering ISCSI Target On Windows 2012 Step By Step

For Creating a ISCSI target on a cluster you get a high available iscsi target.

Sure you can run this on a single server (VM ) and move this between the hyper-v nodes.

for doing this in a cluster you need to do the following steps.

Add cluster Resource ISCSI target , fill in the netbios name that you want for the iscsi target

 

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give the target a disk that will hold the VHD files

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Now that the cluster resource is created the iscsi target is ready to use.

 

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There is no option in the cluster to start the iscsi target you have to start this in the server manager

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As here you can create a new VHD file and use this for targeting , I have no groups so this needs to be created first. I use a small disk just for testing.

 

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for creating the disk you can choose mb , gb , TB disk size.

 

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I Create a new iscsi target and a name

 

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the target can be on computer name but this is only for windows 2012 or windows 8

 

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just as in windows 2008r2 these options are the same , targeting on ip , name etc.

 

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this is the IP of the server that will use the ISCSI target

 

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Ready to us the ISCSI targets

Mount it to the server and the target is high available

Posted June 26, 2012 by Robert Smit in Windows 2012, Windows Server 2012

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