March 2013
Beginner
600 pages
18h 15m
English
book
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Installation and Configuration Guide
by Aidan Finn, Patrick Lownds, Michel Luescher, Damian Flynn
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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 ...