Direct access to an iSCSI datastore

[marius roma]

I need to implement Direct Access to a VMFS datastore hosted by an iSCSI target.
How should I confngure either the Veeam Proxy and the iSCSI target?
Should I implement an iSCSI initiatior on the Veeam Proxy?
Should I authorize the Veeam Proxy access the iSCSI target?
Regards
marius

[foggy]

Please look into the corresponding sticky FAQ section, it contains a couple of links that will help.

[marius roma]

Thank you for the useful pointers.
I understand that my Veeam server must implement an iSCSI initiator and that the iSCSI connection must be set in read-only mode.
Is there any documentation about the right way to confngure a Windows server 2008 R2 or a Windows server 2012 R2 Veeam server as a read-only iSCSI initiator?
Regards
Marius

[foggy]

Doesn't this guide help?

[sanjaykrk]

I think you don't have to worry about 'read-only' part during iSCSI initiator setup.
For e.g.
- using Windows default iSCSI initiator you can connect to iSCSI target (you will need to provide target ip etc).
- You can browse to disk management and confirm if your iSCSI storage is visible. Don't INITIALIZE or DO ANY OPERATION on them from disk management. Just make sure the iSCSI storage is visible in disk management.
- Finally on Veeam console, if you wish, you can set Transport Mode for the proxy as 'Direct storage access' explicitly.
Hope it helps.
BTW the link provided by foggy is very informative.

[Vitaliy S.]

As Sanjay says you don't actually need to use read-only access, just don't allow random people to have admin access on this computer.

[danswartz]

True, although I tend to be paranoid