What the SAN?

SAN Volumes the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator
Every time we rebooted our servers, we noticed that the SAN volumes were always offline. This is really annoying when hosting Virtual Servers, File shares and databases (yes SQL server doesnt like this one bit!).

Without any documentation to install and help us with configuring a new volume we decided that we should create new dynamic disks rather than basic disks (as a SAN can be seen as dynamic)

Note to self: DO NOT do this with the iSCSI initator. This is not supported or recommended by Microsoft after reading some obscure newsgroup posting.

Once we copied all data from drives, deleted and created a basic disk, rebooted, the volumes came up all OK.

So in summary, always create basic disks when using the iSCSI initiator.