iSCSI target volume does not show on Windows 7 iSCSI Initiator

Question

I have a Windows VPS sitting in a DC and another Linux box sitting in another data centre. My Windows VPS (running on Windows 7 64 bit) have a small hard drive and cost a lot to upgrade, and the Linux VPS (running on CentOS 5) has a huge hard drive, so I was trying to set up a iSCSI to make the Linux VPS to run like another partition for the Windows VPS.

I set up the Linux VPS with iSCSI target just fine, using this tutorial here: http://itfixed.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-create-iscsi-target-on-centos-53.html

Other than changing the user name and password mentioned in the tutorial and making the volume to be a lot bigger (I used 100GB), everything else is the same.

I was able to start the Target as well:

/etc/init.d/iscsi-target restart
Stopping iSCSI Target:                                     [  OK  ]
Starting iSCSI Target:                                     [  OK  ]

The strange part comes when I was trying to set up the connection in Windows 7 using the iSCSI initiator, somehow I was able to connect to the target but there is no volume in the Volume and Devices tab list. The autoconfigure is not responding nor I could see anything in the Disk Management. I tried it on another Windows 2008 R2 VPS server (in yet another DC) and the same issue happened as well. I have also tried on my own laptop running on Windows 7 Ultimate and the same thing happened.

I was following this tutorial here for the Windows set up:

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Connecting-Windows-7-iSCSI-SAN.html

I have attached the screenshots here for your reference:

Could you please help?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Turns out I made a typo in the configuration file and pointed the LUN to a folder that does not exist, silly me...