Windows connecting to FreeNAS iSCSI?

[Mohave_steve]

I have been using my FreeNAS box as a datastore for my ESXI hosts. Now I would like to access the storage directly from a Windows box as well.

In an attempt to connect one of my Windows boxes to my FreeNAS I configured the iSCSI initiator on the Windows box and have connected to the FreeNAS box. I cannot view the contents. I can see the storage as Disk1 in Disk Management. It shows as a healthy partition with 100% free space. The only option available for this partition in Disk Management is "delete volume".

Can this be done? Or is the file system incompatible with windows?

Thanks

Steve

 

[Tekkie]

File system is incompatible.

 

[Mohave_steve]

Thanks Tekkie for the quick reply.

I was hoping for a different answer though......:)

My new backup software won't talk to my ESXI datastores. It wants a rescourse on the local machine.

Thanks again.

Steve

 

[daveymg]

You could create a new volume on your Freenas and create a new iscsi extent/target for it. I have both ESXi datastores and windows disk-disk backup volumes on my Freenas box.

Dave