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Note: 1. Please make sure that an iSCSI Target has been created on the Thecus NAS and is ready for
use. There is an article How to Create iSCSI Target on Thecus NAS
(http://esupport.thecus.com/support/index.php?_m=downloads&_a=viewdownload&downloadit
emid=310) for reference.
2. On the iSCSI Initiator, its best to reserve network cards for storage duties only, and they can not
be used for any other purpose.
Connect Windows Server 2008 R2 to iSCSI target by i SCSI Initiator 1. Click on Start Menu , then select Administrative Tools > iSCSI Initiator .
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2. If this is your first time to start iSCSI Initiator, you will see a message window which announces
you to start the iSCSI Initiator service.
3. In the iSCSI Initiator, under the Targets tab, you can enter the IP address of the NAS in the
Target: box, then press Quick Connect… button.
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4. In the Quick Connect window you can check that which iSCSI target is connected to Windows
Server, then press Done button.
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5. Back to the Targets tab, you will see the iSCSI target which is connected is shown on this
window, then just press OK button.
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6. Go to Server Manager and select Storage > Disk Management , and system will find the
iSCSI target as a disk. If your iSCSI target is a brand new one, the system will ask you to
initialize it. If your iSCSI target is larger than 2TB, you must h ave to choose GPT; If the
iSCSI target is equal or smaller than 2TB, you can choose both MBR or GPT partition style.
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7. After initialized the disk, the disk will be online but still unallocated. Now please right click on
the volume and select New Simple Volume .
8. Please assign a drive letter to your drive. In this example we set it to drive T.
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9. Please format the volume with NTFS and enter the volume label you need. Notice that
please remember check the Preform a quick format option, or it will cost too much time to
format.
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10. After formatting, you will see that the drive is ready to use.
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Use iSCSI drive as the storage repository of Hyper- V 1. Here are two ways to start Hyper-V Manager. The one is click on Start Menu , then select
Administrative Tools > Hyper-V Manager ; The other on is open Server Manager , then
select Roles > Hyper-V > Hyper-V Manager . In this example, we will show that start it from
Server Manager.
2. Right Click on your Hyper-V server and select Hyper-V Settings... .
3. Set the default server location to the iSCSI drive. For this example, we set the iSCSI drive as
drive T, so we set the default location to drive T.
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Install virtual machine with Hyper-V 1. In Hyper-V Manager, click on your Hyper-V server, select New in the Action window at right
side and select Virtual Machine... .
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2. In New Virtual Machine Wizard, first of all, please use a name to identify this VM. For this
example. Because we will install Fedora 13, so we name it as Fedora13.
3. Please specify the amount of memory to allocate to this VM. Notice that you need to keep
enough memory for your original OS working.
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4. You can configure a network adapter to use a virtual network or let it remain disconnected.
5. Please select an option to install the operation system or install later. Here we use a CD to
install the OS.
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6. After finishing the New VM Wizard settings, you can see a new VM is shown in the central
window in Hyper-V Manager. Please right click on the new VM and select Connect... to open
the window of this VM.
7. Click the Start button to boot the VM.
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8. Follow the instructions of your OS to install it.
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9. After installation finished, you can work on the VM.
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