Viewing and managing the discovered disks

You can use the Windows host to view the discovered disks and bind the devices to the Microsoft iSER Initiator Service.

About this task

The system volumes that are mapped to the iSER host are now visible to the Windows disk management services. The system volumes can be initialized, formatted, and mounted.

Ensure that the iSER devices are available before dependent applications or services are started. You can bind these devices to the Microsoft iSER Initiator Service from the Bound Volumes/Devices tab on the iSER Initiator control panel.

If the system is rebuilt or restored from backups, you must log off and log back in to any previously connected iSER targets that are supplied from the system.

From the Windows host, you can view information to help you differentiate each of the discovered disks. To do so, complete the following steps.

1. From the Windows Command Prompt, type diskpart.
2. Next, type list disk.
3. Next, select the disk for which you want to view the details. Type select disk x where x is the number of the disk that you want to view.
4. Type detail disk to see the type of disk and other information.

   The following screen shows a sample output.

   DISKPART> list disk
   
     Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
     --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
     Disk 0    Online          279 GB   248 GB        *
     Disk 1    Online           11 GB    10 GB
     Disk 2    Online           11 GB    10 GB
     Disk 3    Online           11 GB    10 GB
   
   DISKPART> select disk 1
   
   Disk 1 is now the selected disk.
   
   DISKPART> detail disk
   
   IBM 2145  Multi-Path Disk Device
   Disk ID: 3143D4AE
   Type   : iSCSI
   Status : Online
   Path   : 0
   Target : 0
   LUN ID : 0
   Location Path : UNAVAILABLE
   Current Read-only State : No
   Read-only  : No
   Boot Disk  : No
   Pagefile Disk  : No
   Hibernation File Disk  : No
   Crashdump Disk  : No
   Clustered Disk  : No