Users Guide

Managing Your Cluster 27

Creating a Highly Available iSCSI Server Instance Using

Microsoft iSCSI Target 3.1

To create Targets and assign the .vhd files, the following steps need to be

performed:

Create Highly Available iSCSI Instance

Right-click the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target icon in the Microsoft

Management Console (MMC) and click

Create high availability instance

for iSCSI

Type the desired name into the field for

Resource Group Name

and click

Add

Fill out the rest of the required fields

–IP Address

–Subnet mask

–

Network Interface

Click

twice.

The highly-available instance for iSCSI should be created successfully.

Create Target

Initiator Side

• If you are not using iSNS server, go to the host/initiator to add the newly

created Target’s iSCSI highly-available IP address in the Target portals for

connectivity.

•Click

Advanced

and select the following options:

–

Local Adapter

—Microsoft iSCSI Initiator

–

Source IP

—Microsoft iSCSI Initiator

– IP address of the client for iSCSI traffic

• If you are using iSNS server, then right-click the iSCSI Target icon in

MMC, select

Properties

, go to

iSNS

tab and add iSNS IP address. Go to

initiator and add iSNS IP address in the

Discovery

tab.