Using an iSCSI target

Windows and Windows Server provide a built-in iSCSI client component you use to access almost any iSCSI target, as previously mentioned.

In the Creating and iSCSI Target recipe, you created an iSCSI target. The target is a disk you can access remotely via an iSCSI client. To make use of the remotely shared disk via iSCSI, you attach it to the iSCSI server and start using the disk as if it were locally attached.

Getting ready

This recipe uses FS1, a domain-joined host in the Reskit.Org domain, on which you have installed PowerShell 7 and VS Code. This recipe also uses SS1 (the host holding the iSCSI target), and you should have DC1 online. You previously created an iSCSI target (on SS1), and now you use the built-in iSCSI initiator to access the iSCSI disk. You run this recipe on FS1.

How to do it...

1. Adjusting the iSCSI service to auto start, then start the service

Set-Service MSiSCSI -StartupType 'Automatic'
Start-Service MSiSCSI

1. Setting up the...