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I would like to add a iSCSI drive to one of our hyper-V VMs. We have the iSCSI network configured for the Hyper-V box, I just wanted to double check how can I achieve this for a VM on this Hyper-V box.

  1. Add extra NIC to VM (for iSCSI)
  2. Using Virtual Network Manager - allocate this NIC to use iSCSI of the Hyper-v host
  3. Test by pinging

My Hyper-v server is a blade server, I am not sure if I should add a extra NIC for the hyper-v host, and use that NIC for iSCSI access (for the guest VM) or should I just use the same iSCSI NIC of the Hyper-v host for Hyper-v guest?

jscott
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REALLY depends. You should havea separate physical NIC on the host for the iscsi traffic, but sometimes can get away with doing that on your backend NIC...

Way 1:

  • Mount ISCSI drive on host, deactivate, map physical desk to VM.

Way 2:

  • Add additional NIC in the VM
  • Assign this NIC to the network that ends up on your NIC on the host where the ICSCI LUN is visible.
  • Configure the NIC in the VM and mount the disc from there.
TomTom
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