Shared storage on a Windows Volume Format
Hello, I'm looking for some help on my lab at home. I have 2 ESX hosts and iSCSI cake just to install on a Windows 2003 server that points to its own partition 40 GB IDE. My guests see the iSCSI target without problem, but when I'm working through the add storage Wizard, I get the message, "Unable to read the disk partition information" to the current disk layout screen. I guess it's because the drive is formatted with NTFS on a windows 2003 server. I'm looking for an easy solution that this iSCSI target will be recognized as a place of storage shared by my hosts. I think it needs to be formatted properly, but I don't know what to do. Also, I realize that this isn't a good solution, but I want to test it.
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
Welcome to the forums. You set it using a partition or a file as an iscsi target?
There is a great PDF actually explaining how to set up all the necessary steps included in detail:
http://www.iscsicake.com/download/iscsicakeesx.PDF
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