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Windows Server 2019 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Mark Henderson, Jordan Krause
Book Image

Windows Server 2019 Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Mark Henderson, Jordan Krause

Overview of this book

Do you want to get up and running with essential administrative tasks in Windows Server 2019? This second edition of the Windows Server 2019 Cookbook is packed with practical recipes that will help you do just that. The book starts by taking you through the basics that you need to know to get a Windows Server operating system working, before teaching you how to navigate through daily tasks using the upgraded graphical user interface (GUI). You'll then learn how to compose an optimal Group Policy and perform task automation with PowerShell scripting. As you advance, you’ll get to grips with faster app innovation, improved Windows security measures, and hybrid cloud environments. After you’ve explored the functions available to provide remote network access to your users, you’ll cover the new Hyper-V enhancements. Finally, this Windows Server book will guide you through practical recipes relating to Azure integration and important tips for how to manage a Windows Server environment seamlessly. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed with Windows Server 2019 essentials and have the skills you need to configure Windows services and implement best practices for securing a Windows Server environment.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Configuring an iSCSI initiator connection

Turning on your first iSCSI target is great, but so far, you aren't using that storage for anything. Let's take it a step further and connect a server to that storage so that it can start to be used. The device connecting to an iSCSI target is called an iSCSI initiator. We are going to take a file server in our environment and configure it so that it connects over the network using iSCSI to our target server. When finished, we will have a new hard disk attached to our server, even though it is really just block storage from the iSCSI target that is being accessed via the network.

Getting ready

We have already configured one Windows Server 2019 as an iSCSI target (FILE01) and are now configuring a second 2019 machine (FILE02) as our iSCSI initiator that will be connecting to the target.

How to do it…

Follow along to create the iSCSI initiator connection on our FILE02 server:

  1. Launch Server Manager. Open the...