Windows server 2012 iscsi diskless boot

Setting up the software side of this setup, with some software engineering background, embarrassingly enough took me 3 days. I've only set up test child VHDx's, wrote a script to remove, generate, and connect child VHDx's to targets and ran finally ran them on client PC's in the last day, I was hoping the system would just work, because all the other time I've spent was setting up the Server and configuring DHCP and iPXE, and of course formatting.

Every step for me required a different OS for the server PC. That was 2 or 3 days ago, looking through task manager and generally monitoring I discovered the router was not 1gbps! If it does then it is definitely not a network nor iSCSI issue. All in all, when receiving a problematic system issue is to not to believe anyone and assume anything and everything is wrong and start with the basics. And certainly "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". So, I took the most problematic PC and ran a memtest on it from USB, by the time I returned to check up on it showed up 19 thousand errors and froze.

No issues, so I took the "problematic" pc's RAMs 1 by 1 and inserted them on this "test" PC and ran memtest; to my surprise no errors! I was furious and the same time so lost. If anyone is reading. But highly unlikely that is the reason of all the crashes, because most of time the crashes were random and not on high GPU usage. Memtest failed at the end with k errors so I ran memtest separately on individual sticks and the test passed, then to reproduce the failure ran memtest on both sticks simultaneously passed again.

Sign up to join this community. This is useful for providing access to storage on your Windows server for clients that can't communicate over the native Windows file sharing protocol, SMB. Network and diskless boot By using boot-capable network adapters or a software loader, you can deploy hundreds of diskless servers. In Microsoft internal testing, computers deployed in 34 minutes.

This is ideal for large deployments of identical operating system images, such as on virtual machines running Hyper-V or in high-performance computing HPC clusters. Server application storage Some applications require block storage. Because the storage is remotely accessible, it can also consolidate block storage for central or branch office locations.

Development, test, demonstration, and lab environments When iSCSI Target Server is enabled, a computer running the Windows Server operating system becomes a network-accessible block storage device. The —size parameter specifies the size of the VHD file. The first parameter is the Target name, and the —InitiatorIds stores the initiators which can connect to the Target. All the Targets which can be accessed will be presented to the initiator. If you cannot find the Target name, check.

The initiator IQN which assigned to the Target object. It is very common to have a typo in this field. It is not a recommended practice, but a good troubleshooting technique. Select the one you want to connect, and click on Connect. This will allow the initiator to connect to the target and access associated disks. You will need to change the IP on this page, then connect. By default iSCSI initiator service is not started, the cmdlet will not work.

If you launch the iSCSI initiator from the control panel, it will prompt for service start, as well as setting the service to start automatically. Register the Target as Favorite target, so that, it will reconnect upon initiator machine reboot. Once the connection is established, the iSCSI virtual disk will be presented to the initiator as a disk.

By default, this disk will be offline,. For typical usage, you want to create a volume, format the volume and assign with a drive letter so it can be used just like a local hard disk. You can right click on the disk to bring it online, but it is not necessary. If you run the new volume wizard, it will be brought online automatically. UI will bring the disk online, and initialize it to GPT. GPT is preferred, for more information, see here. If you have specific reasons creating MBR partition, you will need to use the cmdlet.

For more information about ReFS, please see the link. We will do that after the volume is formatted. Some common questions are:. The new UI is integrated with Server Manager.

Running the cmdlet scripts developed using the previous release. Although most of the cmdlets do work, there are changes to the parameters which may not be compatible.