Initiator

Providing a Nexenta iSCSI target to a Windows Server 2008 initiator

2012-04-05 586 words, 3 minutes
initiator
iscsi
nexenta
server
target
windows
windows server

Last time, I had a look at storing stuff on Nexenta using VMware ESXi and iSCSI . This time, I’m gonna try the same thing but Windows Server 2008 as the iSCSI client, aka initiator. Should this matter, the Windows Server is 2008R2 SP1, 64-bit, Standard Edition.

Providing a Nexenta iSCSI target to an ESXi initiator

2012-04-03 624 words, 3 minutes
datastore
esxi
initiator
iscsi
nexenta
nexentastor
target
vmfs
vmware
zfs
zvol

Here’s the deal: create a ZFS volume on the Nexenta server, share it as iSCSI and attach it using the software iSCSI initiator from ESXi 5.