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LAB3.2 - Connecting Windows Host Over iSCSI With MPIO

This document provides instructions for configuring iSCSI connectivity between a Windows 2012 server and an iSCSI target, with and without multi-path input/output (MPIO) redundancy. The steps include: 1) discovering the iSCSI target without MPIO, 2) connecting an additional session to achieve MPIO redundancy, 3) installing MPIO on the Windows server, 4) enabling support for iSCSI devices in MPIO, and 5) initializing and formatting the new iSCSI volumes.

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LAB3.2 - Connecting Windows Host Over iSCSI With MPIO

This document provides instructions for configuring iSCSI connectivity between a Windows 2012 server and an iSCSI target, with and without multi-path input/output (MPIO) redundancy. The steps include: 1) discovering the iSCSI target without MPIO, 2) connecting an additional session to achieve MPIO redundancy, 3) installing MPIO on the Windows server, 4) enabling support for iSCSI devices in MPIO, and 5) initializing and formatting the new iSCSI volumes.

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LAB Exercise 3.

2: Connect the iSCSI initiator to the iSCSI target,


configure and configure MPIO redundancy

Estimated Exercise Time

30 minutes

Objectives

▪ Configure iSCSI connection and connect without MPIO redundancy


▪ Connect the iSCSI initiator to the iSCSI target in a manner that achieves MPIO
▪ Initialize and format the two volumes

Steps

Task1: Configure Windows 2012 Server and connect to the iSCSI target without MPIO
Redundancy

1. In your Windows 2012 lab environment type “iSCSI initiator” in the search tool as per
the picture below, then click on ISCSI initiator
2. Click on the “Discovery” tab then click on “Discover Portal” as per the screen-shot
below.

3. In the “Discover Target Portal” type 1.0.0.3 then click Ok.


4. Click on “Discover Portal” again
5. Repeat step 5 with the IP address value of 1.0.0.4 and click Ok
6. Click on the “Targets” tab and you will find that the iSCSI initiator has discovered the
iSCSI target IQN as a result of discovering the target portal, right after the
completion of step 5 above
7. Click on “Connect”
8. In the “Connect To Target” pop up window check the box next to “Enable multi-
path” then click advanced as per the picture below
9. In the “Advanced Settings” pop up window, set up the values for “Local Adapter”,
“Initiator IP” and “Target portal IP” to the following values. Don’t click Ok yet:

Local adapter: Microsoft iSCSI Initiator


Initiator IP: 1.0.0.1
Target portal IP: 1.0.0.3 / 3260

10. Click OK

11. You will see that you have a connected iSCSI session as per the picture below
12. Go back to the Array’s GUI, then to the Health link, then “Connections” tab and you
will see that you the path to the “Student02-win2k16-iscsi02” host is a single
controller non-redundant path. This is as per the below picture
Task2: Achieve MPIO between iSCSI initiator and target

1. Go back to iSCSI initiator properties in your windows environment and click on


“Properties” as per the picture below
2.

3. Click on “Add session”


4. In the “Connect to Target” pop up window check the box for “Enable multi-path”
and click on “Advanced”
5. In the “Advanced Settings” pop up window, set the values for “Local Adapter”,
“Initiator IP” and “Target portal IP” to the following values. Don’t click Ok yet:

Local adapter: Microsoft iSCSI Initiator


Initiator IP: 1.0.0.1
Target portal IP: 1.0.0.4
6. Click “OK”
7. Go back to the Array’s GUI to the Health link, then “Connections” tab and you will
see that you the path to the “StudentX-win2k16-iscsi02” host is a Single Controller
(As this is 1 VM, Actual Array this should be REDUNDUANT) and connected to ET0
and ETH1. This is as per the picture below. Of course X in the host name corresponds
to your student POD number.
Task3: Initialize and format the new volumes

8. Go back to your Windows 2012 environment and using the search tool type “disk
manager” as per the picture below, then hit enter

9. You will find that two new disks have been discovered as per the picture below
10. Note that we now have 4 disks instead of two. The system recognizes four disks as
MPIO is not enabled on the Windows server.

Task4: Enable MPIO’s support for iSCSI devices on the Windows Server 2012

1. Install Windows MPIO via Server Manager and “Add roles and features” as per
picture below.

2. Click Next multiple times until you reach “Features” and select “Multipath I/O” as
per picture below. Click Next and Install. DO NOT REBOOT!
3. In your Windows 2012 lab environment click on Windows Administrative tools as per
the picture below:
11. Click on MPIO as per the picture below
12. In the MPIO properties popup screen, click on “Discover Multi-Paths” tab, then
choose “Add support for iSCSI devices” as per the picture below. DO NOT REBOOT!

13. Click OK
14. Go back and open the “Disk Manager” tool and you will see two disks now being
discovered. This is the correct discovery due to the enablement of support of iSCSI
devices in the screen-shot above.
15. Format each one of the two disks
16. Initialize each one of the two disks. Use Defaults.
17. Right Click Disk – “New Simple Volume”. Use Defaults. Done.

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