Showing posts with label disk management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label disk management. Show all posts
Monday, February 22, 2010
Quick Tutorial on DiskPart
Some quick tutorial on using DiskPart (menu-driven utility to manage/create disk, partition & volume) if you happen to work on Server Core or Hyper-V Server 2008
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
How to setup iSCSI Initiator on Server Core R2 and Hyper-V server
In my earlier post, I mentioned about using OpenFiler as a free iSCSI Target server and even build a pair of failover cluster VM server on Hyper-V. Setting up iSCSI initiator in full graphical W2K8 installation is pretty straightforward. What about Server Core R2 and HyperV server that provide minimal GUI and mostly CLI?
After digging through MS TechNet, I've figured out and tested it on my test HyperV server.
Step 1: Create a RAID volume, configure the iSCSI target, and map a LUN on it
Step 2: MS added a nice GUI of iSCSI initiator. Otherwise, you have to make do with the "iscsicli" cmdlet, which is difficult to manage. At the server core command prompt, just type "iscsicpl.exe"
Step 3: On "Discovery", enter the iSCSI target IP address or DNS. Make sure you add it as favorite targets, so that it will reconnect everytime the server restarts. On "Targets" tab, click "Connected".
Step 4: Type "diskpart.exe" on command prompt. Do "List Disk" to ensure that the new disk is added. Type "Select Disk", "Create Partition", "Assign Letter" to disk and finally "Format quick". All these commands are equivalent to what you normally do on a graphical "Disk Management" console.
Step 5: Check on the newly created disk and it is ready to go.
After digging through MS TechNet, I've figured out and tested it on my test HyperV server.
Step 1: Create a RAID volume, configure the iSCSI target, and map a LUN on it
Step 2: MS added a nice GUI of iSCSI initiator. Otherwise, you have to make do with the "iscsicli" cmdlet, which is difficult to manage. At the server core command prompt, just type "iscsicpl.exe"
Step 3: On "Discovery", enter the iSCSI target IP address or DNS. Make sure you add it as favorite targets, so that it will reconnect everytime the server restarts. On "Targets" tab, click "Connected".
Step 4: Type "diskpart.exe" on command prompt. Do "List Disk" to ensure that the new disk is added. Type "Select Disk", "Create Partition", "Assign Letter" to disk and finally "Format quick". All these commands are equivalent to what you normally do on a graphical "Disk Management" console.
Step 5: Check on the newly created disk and it is ready to go.
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