{"id":1897,"date":"2018-11-02T19:23:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T18:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2018-11-02T20:10:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T19:10:23","slug":"having-fun-with-starwind-virtual-san-free-and-differencing-virtual-disks-article-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/?p=1897","title":{"rendered":"Having fun with StarWind Virtual SAN Free and differencing virtual disks : article #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See previous <a href=\"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/?p=1862\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article <\/a>to understand why and what.<\/p>\n<p>Previously we have created our differencing \/ child disks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lets first set our iscsi target with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwindsoftware.com\/download-starwind-products#free-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Starwind San Free<\/a> by\u00a0creating two targets and attaching one disk in each target.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/9FK27pb.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/9FK27pb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/XJ7DV7g.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/XJ7DV7g.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/hjVR7Za.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/hjVR7Za.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/pzQRjRu.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/pzQRjRu.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/SjUSfw9.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/SjUSfw9.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then lets boot our diskless computers over the network with <a href=\"http:\/\/reboot.pro\/topic\/18488-tiny-pxe-server\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TinyPXE Server<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We will use the below ipxe scripts (one for each network booting computer).<br \/>\nReplace &lsquo;X&rsquo; below with the target number (1 or 2) on line 3 and 5.<\/p>\n<pre>#!ipxe\r\nclear net0.dhcp\/gateway:ipv4\r\nset initiator-iqn iqn.2006-11.X\r\nset keep-san 1\r\nsanboot --keep iscsi:${next-server}:tcp:3260:0:iqn.2008-08.com.starwindsoftware:erwan-pc2-childX\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/SCYXdIp.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/SCYXdIp.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here we go, we have X diskless computers booted over the network using differencing disks on the iscsi target.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/VfMpfiv.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/VfMpfiv.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"404\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See previous article to understand why and what. Previously we have created our differencing \/ child disks. Lets first set our iscsi target with Starwind San Free by\u00a0creating two targets and attaching one disk in each target. Then lets boot our diskless computers over the network with TinyPXE Server. We will use the below ipxe <a href='https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/?p=1897' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1904,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}