Deciding whether to use the iSCSI Configuration for Windows Express Guide
This guide describes how to quickly set up the iSCSI service on a storage virtual machine (SVM), provision a LUN, and make the LUN available using an iSCSI initiator on a Windows host computer.
This guide is based on the following assumptions:
- You want to use best practices, not explore every available option.
- You do not want to read a lot of conceptual background.
You are using the Microsoft iSCSI software initiator on Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, or Windows Server 2016.
Your network uses IPv4 addressing.
You want to assign addresses to logical interfaces using any of the following methods:
Automatically, from a subnet you define
Manually, using an address selected from an existing subnet
Manually, using an address that will be added to an existing subnet
You are not configuring iSCSI SAN boot.
If these assumptions are not correct for your situation, you should see the following resource: