Viewing and managing the discovered disks

This section describes how to use the Windows® host to view the discovered disks and how to bind the devices to the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Service.

The SAN Volume Controller VDisks that are mapped to the iSCSI host are now visible to the Windows disk management services. The SAN Volume Controller VDisks can be initialized, formatted, and mounted.

If you want to 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.

From the Windows host, you can view the details of the discovered disks to help you differentiate the system disks from the SAN Volume Controller disks by performing the following steps:

From the Windows Command Prompt, type diskpart.
Next type list disk.
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.

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>