Dear Friends... i want to share my scenario with you all .. please help me how can i achive the shared storage setup using ISCSI from a server internal storage. i am got two system which in some time will be two servers.. now in these two machines as i am testing i took one with only 80 Gb HDD just to run OS with 8 GB RAM...and another with 2 HDD which i will configure software raid till the time i will not get physical serves. so these two HDDs will be mirrored... i want to create a shared storage to put my VMs (hyper-V) on this shared storage and as of now we dont have SAN. so how can i create iSCSI on this system. Please can you give me the steps how can i achive this .. and how my another systems will connect to this shared storeage. i want to make my VMs high availabe.. am i going right way .. or i am doing some mistake. secondly .. one more thing .. i want to put my VM on shared and run them from 80 GB/8 Gb Ram machine... means processing from this.. correct... or not.. how this is possible.. please guide... Thanks Happiness Always Jatin

Hi, First, install this on the 2 HDD attached system: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=19867 Then, refer to this article for how to use iSCSI Software Target and Initiator: http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2009/01/31/step-by-step-using-the-microsoft-iscsi-software-target-with-hyper-v-standalone-full-vhd.aspxTechNet Subscriber Support in forum |If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tnmff@microsoft.com.

Thanks for the help.. actually i used that post (link)which you suggested above to configure.. but now my concern is how can i give the failover option to my virtual machines... means .. all my storage is on iSCSI and all the machines are getting its processing power from some different machines... concern is what if the processing machines goes down.. my virtual machines will also go down .. so how can i provide redundancy to them...? anything to do with clustering or NLB.. Please help...Thanks Happiness Always Jatin