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Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................... 6
iSCSI Availability with various different versions of Windows...............................................10
Highlights of the Windows iSCSI implementation...................................................................11
What has been tested and determined to work........................................................................12
Not supported for use with the Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator:.......................................15
Architectural overview and features.........................................................................................16
Installing the iSCSI Initiator.......................................................................................................22
Security........................................................................................................................................ 27
iSCSI Best Practices................................................................................................................... 28
Firewall configuration for Windows 2008 Server Core............................................................30
Using the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Service on Windows Server 2008...................................31
iSCSI Boot Initiator Architectural Overview.............................................................................64
iSCSI Boot Step by Step instructions for the Windows Administrator.................................66
Configuring DHCP for iSCSI Boot (Step 7)...............................................................................66
Create an iSCSI Target (volume) on a host (Step 8).................................................................69
Transfer the image from the client boot volume to the target (Step 11)................................85
Troubleshooting.......................................................................................................................... 87
Appendix A - Event Tracing in MS iSCSI Drivers.....................................................................98
Appendix B - iSCSI Eventlog messages.................................................................................100
Appendix C – iSCSICLI command reference..........................................................................111
Appendix D – Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator Error Messages and Status Codes.........137
Appendix E – Integrating iSCSI Support in Windows PE......................................................144
Appendix F - iSCSI Initiator & MPIO tunable timers...............................................................153
References and Resources...................................................................................................... 166
