Now that you have added disks to your StarWind virtual machines, you can create an iSCSI disk on your 1st StarWind server.
To do this, select your first StarWind server (in the left column), then click: Add Device (advanced).
In the "Add Device Wizard" window that appears, select "Hard Disk Device" and click Next.
Select "Virtual Disk" to create a virtual disk that will be accessible via the iSCSI protocol.
Provide a name and size for this virtual disk, then click the "..." button.
Select the "mnt" folder in the left column, then double-click on your disk name displayed on the right.
Next, click "Select Folder".
The location (Location) where this new virtual disk will be created appears.
Click Next.
Leave the default settings.
The 1st cannot be changed in this case.
The block size to use depends on the guest operating system.
In the case of a Linux-based operating system (e.g. VMware ESXi), you must use a block size of 512 bytes.
In the case of Windows, you will use a block size of 4096 bytes.
Source: StarWind Virtual SAN documentation.
Ignore StarWind's caching system as this is optional.
Also ignore the flash cache system.
Before a client can access an iSCSI disk, you must attach it to an iSCSI target.
You must therefore create an iSCSI target the first time you create an iSCSI disk.
To do this, configure the target parameters like this:
Click Create.
The virtual disk has been created and is named "imagefile1" by default.
Click Close.
The new iSCSI target ("DS1" in our case) appears, as well as your new virtual disk "imagefile1".
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