Once you have configured your iSCSI targets and created iSCSI
virtual disks on them, enabled and configured your iSCSI initiators,
and established connections and sessions between initiators and
targets, you are ready to provision iSCSI storage by creating new
volumes. I’ll conclude this lesson by walking you through an example
of how to create a new volume on HOST4 (the server that has the
initiator) from a target and virtual disk on HOST7 (the server with
the iSCSI Target Server installed):
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Begin by opening Server Manager on HOST4, and select the
File And Storage Services page.
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Because you created two iSCSI virtual disks that are 50
and 150 GBs in size previously in this lesson, these disks are
displayed in the Disks tile on the Disks subpage. To create a
new volume on HOST4 from the 50-GB iSCSI virtual disk on HOST7,
you begin by right-clicking on the 50-GB disk and selecting New
Volume:
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Doing this launches the New Volume Wizard. Because you want the new volume to appear as a local
drive on your initiator server (HOST4), you select HOST4 in the
Server list on the Select The Server And Disk page of this
wizard:
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Proceed through the remaining steps of the wizard until
you have clicked Create. At this point, an Offline Or
Uninitialized Disk dialog box is displayed because the selected
disk (the disk selected in the earlier screen shot of the Disks
tile) has Unknown as its partition style. Clicking OK in this
dialog box brings the disk online and initializes it as a GPT
disk.
Once the new volume has been created, opening Explorer on
HOST4 shows the disk as a local volume even though the actual iSCSI
storage is located elsewhere on HOST7. You can now copy or save
files to the new volume as if it was a locally installed disk on the
computer.
