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Possible to mount an iSCSI target from same machine?
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 1:58 am
by tulsaconnect
Is it possible to export an iSCSI target (e.g. a Disk Bridge) from a machine, and then use the iSCSI initiator on that same machine to connect to and use it?
Re: Possible to mount an iSCSI target from same machine?
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 8:47 am
by anton (staff)
Yes. Just don't export SPTI device to the same machine. Windows will BSOD.
tulsaconnect wrote:Is it possible to export an iSCSI target (e.g. a Disk Bridge) from a machine, and then use the iSCSI initiator on that same machine to connect to and use it?
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:08 pm
by tulsaconnect
When I try that, I get the following in the Event Log:
Disk 2 will not be used because it is a redundant path for disk 1.
This is on Win2008 Data Center Edition.
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 6:01 pm
by anton (staff)
Good. So Windows 2008 has a workaround for this issue.
You can "loopback" connect to the pure virtual hardware. But not to the one mapped to the real AS IS (SPTI in 100% of the cases). Cannot do the same for DiskBridge. Virtual DVD, ImageFile, Virtual ATAPI and Virtual Tape are all OK to loopback.
tulsaconnect wrote:When I try that, I get the following in the Event Log:
Disk 2 will not be used because it is a redundant path for disk 1.
This is on Win2008 Data Center Edition.
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 6:20 pm
by tulsaconnect
Ok, so what you are saying is I must convert to an ImageFile type iSCSI target instead of the DiskBridge?
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:40 am
by aaron (staff)
If you want to do a loopback - YES, definitely!
tulsaconnect wrote:Ok, so what you are saying is I must convert to an ImageFile type iSCSI target instead of the DiskBridge?