Add iSCSI LUN to Multiple Hyper-V Cluster Hosts?

Question

Is there a way to connect multiple Hyper-V hosts to a CSV LUN without manually logging into each and opening the iSCSI Initiator GUI?

Answer 1

Is there a way to connect multiple Hyper-V hosts to a CSV LUN without manually logging into each and opening the iSCSI Initiator GUI?
Here's a good step-by-step guide on how to do everything you want using just PowerShell. Please see:
Configuring iSCSI storage for a Hyper-V Cluster
http://www.hypervrockstar.com/qs-buildingahypervcluster_part3/
This part is should be of a particular interest of yours. See:
Connect Nodes to iSCSI Target
Once the target is created and configured, we need to attach the iSCSI initiator in each node to the storage. We will use MPIO to
ensure best performance and availability of storage.  When we enable the MS
DSM to claim all iSCSI LUNs we must reboot the node for the setting to take affect. MPIO is utilized by creating a persistent connection to the target for each data NIC on the target server and from all iSCSI initiator NICs on our hyper-v
server.  Because our hyper-v servers are using converged networking, we only have 1 iSCSI NIC.  In our example resiliency is provided by the LBFO team we created in the last video.
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Set-Service -Name
msiscsi -StartupType Automatic
Start-Service msiscsi
#reboot requres after claim
Enable-MSDSMAutomaticClaim -BusType
iSCSI
Set-MSDSMGlobalDefaultLoadBalancePolicy
-Policy RR
New-IscsiTargetPortal –TargetPortalAddress 192.168.1.107
$target = Get-IscsiTarget
-NodeAddress *HyperVCluster*
$target| Connect-IscsiTarget
-IsPersistent $true -IsMultipathEnabled
$true -InitiatorPortalAddress
192.168.1.21 -TargetPortalAddress 10.0.1.10
$target| Connect-IscsiTarget-IsPersistent$true-IsMultipathEnabled$
You'll find a reference to "Connect-IscsiTarget" PowerShell cmdlet here:
Connect-IscsiTarget
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh826098.aspx
Set of samples on how to control MSFT iSCSI initiator with PowerShell could be found here:
Managing iSCSI Initiator with PowerShell
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/san/archive/2012/07/31/managing-iscsi-initiator-connections-with-windows-powershell-on-windows-server-2012.aspx
Good luck and happy clustering :)
StarWind Virtual SAN clusters Hyper-V without SAS, Fibre Channel, SMB 3.0 or iSCSI, uses Ethernet to mirror internally mounted SATA disks between hosts.