07 Installing the Multipath feature

Installing the MPIO Service on Windows Server

• Access the Cloud Server (VMware Cloud Server or Cloud VPS Hyper-V) via RDP;
• go to Start and open Server Manager;
• start the process for adding roles and features by selecting Add roles and features;
  
  
• confirm the steps by selecting Next;
• in the Select features section, select Multipath I/O and then Next;
  
  
• in the Confirm installation selections section, select Restart the destination server automatically if required and then Install;
  
  
• in the Installation progress section, select Close.
  
  

Enabling MPIO for iSCSI

• From the Server Manager Dashboard, go to Tools and select MPIO;
  
  
• in the MPIO Properties window, select the Discover Multi-Paths tab;
  
  
• select Add support for iSCSI devices;
• select Add;
• confirm with OK;
• select the MPIO Devices tab;
• make sure that a new device, generally named MSFT2005iSCSIBusType 0x9 or similar, is displayed in the Devices area.
  
  

Adding an iSCSI target to the server

• From the Server Manager Dashboard, go to Tools and select iSCSI Initiator;
  
  
• in the iSCSI Initiator Properties window, select the Discovery tab and add all the storage IP addresses to Target portals using Discover Portal...;
  
  
• select the Targets tab, select a mount point for which you want to enable MPIO and then select Connect;
  
  
• select Add this connection to the list of Favorite Targets and Enable multi-path, then select Advanced...;
  
  
• in the Advanced Settings section:
  • select Microsoft iSCSI Initiator from the Local adapter list;
  • select an IP address from the Initiator IP list;
  • select an IP address from the Target portal IP list, making sure that the two IP addresses belong to the same network.
    
    
• confirm with OK.

Adding a secondary iSCSI Connection Path

• Add another iSCSI target by repeating the procedure described in Adding an iSCSI target to the server;
• select the Targets tab and then Devices;
  
  
• in the window displayed, select MPIO;
• in the Load balance policy area, select a load balancing policy, such as Round Robin with Subset or Fail Over Only, then confirm with OK.
  
  

Configuring storage in Windows

• Open Computer Management from Control Panel > Administrative Tools;
  
  
• select Disk Management from the menu on the left, locate the disk whose size matches the LUN, right-click it and select Online. The disk status changes to Not Initialized;
  
  
• right-click the disk again and select Initialize Disk;
  
  
• select the partitioning method and confirm with OK. The disk status changes to Online;
  
  
• right-click the disk and select New Simple Volume;
  
  
• follow the wizard to complete the creation of the new volume;
  
  
• once the process is complete, Windows displays a new drive with the assigned drive letter, which can be used as additional storage space.