Viewing and managing the discovered disks

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

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

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

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

From the Windows host, you can view the details of the discovered disks to help you differentiate the system disks from the Lenovo Storage V series disks. Complete the following steps:

  1. From the WindowsCommand 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       149 GB    78 GB   *      
      Disk 1    Online       149 GB    78 GB   *      
      Disk 2    Online       565 MB   565 MB          
      Disk 3    Online       337 MB   337 MB          
    
    DISKPART> select disk 2
    
    Disk 2 is now the selected disk.
    
    DISKPART> detail disk
    
    IBM      2145             SCSI Disk Device
    Disk ID: 00000000
    Type   : iSCSI
    Bus    : 0
    Target : 2
    LUN ID : 0
    
    There are no volumes.
    
    DISKPART>