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Conflict with Windows Server iSCSI target

2023-10-31
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The following provides troubleshooting steps to resolve client boot failures in CCBoot due to conflicts with the "iSCSI Target Server" role on Windows Server

  • When booting a client from CCBoot which is installed in Windows Server, it can fail to
    boot with an error “Could not initialize iSCSI device: Not supported” (Figure 1).

Figure 1

  1. Cause:
  2. The issue is caused by one of the roles in Windows Server called "iSCSI Target Server"
  3. This role creates iscsi service on the server which conflicts with CCBoot iSCSI service and causes clients to fail to boot (Figure 2)..

Figure 2

  1. To fix this problem, you need to either start and stop CCBoot and then reboot the client or  "iSCSI Server Target" role from Windows Server.
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