AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Connecting to VTL Devices
You can now initialize and format this storage volume for Windows so you can begin saving data on it.
You do this by using the Windows Disk Management tool.
Note
Although it is not required for this exercise, we highly recommend that you customize your
iSCSI settings for a real-world application as discussed in
Customizing Your Windows iSCSI
.
Connecting Your VTL Devices to a Windows client
A tape gateway exposes several tape drives and a media changer, referred to collectively as VTL devices,
as iSCSI targets. For more information, see
Note
You connect only one application to each iSCSI target.
The following diagram highlights the iSCSI target in the larger picture of the AWS Storage Gateway
architecture. For more information on AWS Storage Gateway architecture, see
To connect your Windows client to the VTL devices
1. On the
Start
menu of your Windows client computer, type
iscsicpl.exe
in the
Search Programs
and files
box, locate the iSCSI initiator program, and then run it.
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