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iStorage Server Free

Free was especially prepared for users that want to try iSCSI server (target) software without any pay. It can be easily used on Windows based computers.

Thanks to iSCSI Technology you will be able to easily share your drive or partition to other computers or even mobile phones! It will allow you to easily create an iSCSI target using your disk / partition or even your optical drive and then access it from anther PC that is on your network! It will take only a couple of minutes to do that but it will benefit everyone who wishes to share its data. Since it is free it is perfect choice for anyone that is starting with iSCSI target software and wants to check all the benefits by himself.

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iStorage Server will help you to share your disks (map them) using existing network. It is extremely simple to do. Just click on "Create" button that is in main window of iStorage Server. This will open Wizard that will guide you through all steps necessary to create iSCSI Target using desired device. Here we will create simple image file and connect to it using another computer.

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Figure 1

Just please chose all options accordingly to create image file:

Hard Disk-->Image File-->Standard Image File-->Create a new image file(And specify it location)-->Anonymous-->Finish

Now using another computer we can connect to target we just created. To do it we need to open iSCSI Initiator. You can do it by starting typing Initiator in Start Menu using Windows 7. (Figure 2)


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Figure 2

Switch to Discovery Tab click on Discover Portal-->Type Server IP, press Ok button. (Figure 3)

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Figure 3

Now we are connected to our iStorage Server but now we need to connect to specific device we shared (since we could share more than one device). Switch back to Targets tab, chose desired Target and click on Connect button-->Ok. (Figure 4 and 5)


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Figure 4

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Figure 5

Since we connected to newly created drive, we need to initialize and format it. In order to do it we need to go to Disk Management. We can start it by clicking on Start-->Right Click on Computer-->Manage. Then when we will turn it on we will notice a window with disk initiator. Just click OK on it to continue. Our disk is now online. The only thing that is left to do is to partition it. To do it please Right Click on that new disk and chose New Simple Volume. In Wizard that will appear please just follow all steps by accepting default values.

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Figure 6

After wizard will finish his work, drive will be formatted. After formatting it will be ready to use. 


Since now we can access it using My Computer. Please notice that this drive doesn’t differ from any other drive you have in your computer therefore Windows sees it as a local physical drive. That can bring you many benefits such as using RAID-1, installing any software you want or sharing this drive again.