Part 5. Connecting Targets and Configuring Multipathing.

Part 5. Connecting Targets and Configuring Multipathing.

5.1. Launch Microsoft iSCSI Initiator: Start > Administrative Tools > iSCSI Initiator or iscsicpl from the command line interface. The iSCSI Initiator Properties window appears.

Click the Targets tab. The previously created targets are listed in the Discovered Targets section. Select a target located on the local server and click Connect.

5.4. Enable both checkboxes. Click Advanced.

5.5. Select Microsoft iSCSI Initiator in the Local adapter text field, In the Initiator IP select 192.168.1.241 and In the Target portal IP select 192.168.1.254. Click OK.

5.6. Click OK, to connect to the target.

5.7. Repeat the steps from 5.1 to 5.6 for Disk02 to connect to the target.

5.8. Once both target is connected, Click OK.

5.9. Repeat the steps from 5.1 to 5.8 on HyperV02 to connect to the target.

5.10. Once all targets are connected, launch the MPIO manager: Start >  Administrative Tools > MPIO Or mpiocpl from the command line interface. MPIO manager window will appear.

5.11. Go to the Discover Multi-Paths tab and enable the Add support for iSCSI devices checkbox, Press the Add button.

5.12. Then restart the both Hyper-V Servers to apply the changes.

5.13. After both Hyper-V Servers are restarted and the MPIO support is enabled we have to configure the MPIO policy for each device specifying as the active path.

5.14. Open iscsicpl from cmd, and Select a first target and click Devices.

5.15. Devices dialog appears. Click MPIO.

5.16. Select Fail Over Only load balance policy and then designate the local path as active.

5.17. Repeat the same steps from 5.14 to 5.16 for second target.

5.18. Repeat the steps from 5.14 to 5.17 on HyperV02.

5.19. Go to Computer Management, Disk Management then right click on both Disk and online both Disk which is coming from StarWind.

5.20. Initialize both Disk as GPT and Click OK.

5.21. Create partition on both Disks.

5.22. Now go to HyperV02 and just Refresh the Disk Management from Computer Management and verify same has been reflected on HyperV02 also once you make both disk online.

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