Now that we have attached our new virtual disk to the VM, we need to bring it online and format it. Follow these steps:
- From Tools, select Computer Management and Disk Management under the Storage menu. As you can see, our guest OS can correctly see the new device:
- Right click on Disk 1 and select Online.
- Once the disk is online, right-click it again and select Initialize.
All that is left to do now is to create a new partition that will be used to store our iSCSI disks:
- Right-click on the Unallocated space.
- Select New Simple Volume....
- Assign a new drive letter, format the volume with NTFS, and provide a name for the volume if required. You should then be able to see that the disk is online and the new partition is created:
Once the disk is online, you can install the iSCSI target role. To do that, merely launch the add or remove roles and features wizard and select the iSCSI Target Server role:
