Managing the iSCSI Target Server

The iSCSI target server in Windows Server 2012 can be managed by using the user interface through Server Manager, as seen in earlier chapters, or PowerShell cmdlets. This section also walks through the Best Practice Analyzer (BPA) and the options with System Center. With System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager, storage arrays also can be managed using an SMI-S provider.

Storage Providers

Windows Server 2012 has two features related to the iSCSI target server:

  • Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)
  • Virtual Disk Service (VDS)

VSS is a framework that allows a volume backup to be performed while the application continues with I/Os. VSS coordinates among the backup application (requester), applications such as Hyper-V ...

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