- Starwind iscsi target install#
- Starwind iscsi target software#
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- Starwind iscsi target free#
Reason for that is that by default, it allows any initiator to connect which can’t be a good thing if your storage is used to cater for many different systems. One thing to do at this point is to change the “Access Rights” for the Targets Group “General”. It’s best to give a good description so that you can remember six months from now why you created it 🙂 To do that, right-click on “Targets” and select “Add Targets Group” There is already a default “General” group but I would advise creating a new one and set appropriate access policies. Now, let’s move on to create a “Targets Group” (as we might have more than one targets in it). As you can see, it’s a very flexible piece of software, allowing you a large number of options to choose from when it comes to providing anything from basic LUNs to complex HA clusters. Click “Finish” to complete the creation of disk and the associated iSCSI target. As we intend to connect to this target from multiple ESXi servers, I would make sure to have the “Allow multiple concurrent iSCSI connections (clustering)” option ticked:Īfter that, it’s just a confirmation screen. You could change the name if you want to but I didn’t see any particular reason to do so. You could give an alias of your choice to the target and based on that, it automatically comes up with a “Target Name”. Here you can choose to create a new target or attach this device to a pre-existing one. As my environment is backed up by a UPS, I generally choose “Write-back caching” for performance reasons: In the same way as in RAID controllers, caching policy is set here and you can choose whichever option suits your set up the most. No need to make any changes on the next screen. One could also create a compressed and/or encrypted disk here. Obviously, it should be ensured that the destination location has sufficient capacity free.
Starwind iscsi target software#
We choose the “Create new virtual disk” option.Īs we’re creating a new disk, we need to give the software the location and size of the file containing it. The next screen asks if you want to create a new virtual disk or mount a pre-existing disk for this device. Here the option “Mirror (RAID-1) device” option is not covered by my license. As before, some options might require a different license, as shown in the example below. For the purpose of our example, we’ll choose “Image File Device”. The wizard continues to ask what type of medium should be used for this virtual disk.
Starwind iscsi target license#
Other options could also be selected based on requirements but whether or not you can use them, will depend on your license entitlement. Just like various hypervisors, this is a flexible option that let’s you create disks with varying capabilities. For our example here, choose “Virtual Hard Disk”. To do that, click on “Add Device” on the top bar:
Starwind iscsi target install#
The first thing to do is, well, to install “a device”. The service is accessible through the management console, also installed as part of the setup. The “StarWind iSCSI SAN” service is installed during the install and therefore, comes up as a service soon after boot. Once done, it’s plain sailing after that and the software goes ahead and installs itself. The next screen asks you to browse to the file containing the license, which you should have by now. All options are shown in the screenshot below:
Starwind iscsi target free#
For this article, I am assuming you have the free version so choose the option accordingly. The only thing to consider is the “License Key” screen, where you need to choose the correct option for the type of license you have. As focus of this article is not the installation process, all I would say is that installing the software is a breeze and basically a “Next, Next, Install” sort of affair. If you don’t have the binaries already, go to this link and get the free download. Stating the obvious here but the first thing is to have the software installed. I thought about it but as I wanted to create an article with step-by-step instructions (making sure they’re followed exactly), I had to do it. I should apologise in advance as this is a fairly heavy post in terms of pictures. Using that, one can provide as many LUNs as required to an ESXi setup, possibly with multipathing – very useful if one doesn’t have expensive network storage and virtual appliances don’t seen flexible enough. In this post, I’ll document the process to create a simple shared iSCSI LUN setup. In my previous post, I mentioned that I use StarWind Software’s iSCSI SAN software to provide iSCSI LUNs for my home lab.
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