someone getting Ms iSCSI running?

[alex]

hi

i've tryed to get this iSCSI driver running. installed it and so on, but i
cannot mount any drive to a remote machine. is there any example
(documentation) about it?


Alex

 

[Net Worker]

BTW,
We are running iSCSI but not with the Ms driver. We have 2 Win2K
systems, one with Intel and the other with Adaptec TOE NICs as initiator and
a NetApp filer as the target.
Works great, very easy to setup. Not sure if we will evaluate the Ms driver
yet though.
-G

 

[alex]

hi

i'm not so familar with this new iSCSI, but very interrested. we plan to buy
a SAN next week and i'd like to attach the webservers to this SAN, too.
there are different ways from my view. one way is connection the 2
webservers over a SMB share hosted by the fault tollerant SQL Servers
connected to the SAN. don't hurt me - i know mixing fileserver and SQL is
not the best idea. but a simply unused passive SQL server is out thrown
money, too. this box is only used for minutes a year on a server fault...

therefor my idea was - installing the iSCSI driver on the "unused" box and
attach the webservers to this box via iSCSI. i don't know what is faster SMB
or iSCSI!? and i don't know if it is possible to create a fault tollerant
config with iSCSI and Windows Enterprise Sever. finaly i tryed to config
this - but was unsuccessfull. i don't understand how to config this Ms iSCSI
driver...


Alex

 

[alex]

lets describe what i've done...

1. installed the "Complete iSCSI Initiator" on a Windows 2000 SP4 Server
(SRV1)
2. installed the "iSNS Service" on the same machine
3. installed the "Complete iSCSI Initiator" on a Windows XP Professional
(CLIENT1)
4. add on CLIENT1 under iSNS the IP of SRV1 Server
5. tryed to add under "Target Portals" the SRV1 IP with Port Default > OK
6. get the Error "Initiator Instance Does Not Exist"

setup told me on SRV1 the services are started automaticaly... whats wrong?


Alex