Nov 022018
 

Windows server iscsi target is a nice product allowing one to boot diskless computers over the network (using iscsi).

Furthermore, windows iscsi target supports differencing virtual hard disks (vhd) allowing one to build a « master » (parent) disk and then create differencing disks thus leaving the master disk untouched.

But you dont always have a windows server at hand and you may wish to go for a cheaper alternative, or just do it another way for fun 🙂

The next 3 articles will take you on a journey to achieve the above i.e boot diskless computers over the network (using StarWind San Free and TinyPXE Server) with differencing virtual hard disks:

create the master / parent disk
create the differencing / child disks
boot diskless computers over the network using these child disks

 Posted by at 13 h 45 min

  4 Responses to “Having fun with StarWind Virtual SAN Free and differencing virtual disks”

  1. […] while ago, we have seen here how we could play with vhd differencing disks and starwind san free […]

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