Tried everything in the world I can think of to make this work. iSCSI target is implemented on 2012 R2 (so the SMI-S provider is installed by default) and works great. This is more of an administration nit than anything, as I don't seem to have any operational issues with the current setup, but it does bother me that I can't make this work. Target is listening on TCP/5585 (0.0.0.0), so I know WMI is active, but I don't see (and maybe I shouldn't...I honestly don't know...) TCP/5988 or TCP/5989 on any interface. I've tried setting up in the VMM gui (yes, I am specifying WMI) and I've tried using the Register-SmisProvider from the shell using the URI of http://fqdn.tomy.iscsitarget.net... nada... in either case the the runas account being used is a member of the Domain Admins group (and, thus, a local administrator on the target server). Whenever attempted, there is a brief pause followed by some variation of the following error message:
Registration of storage provider fqdn.tomy.iscsitarget.net for user DOMAIN\VMMAdminAccount failed from fqdn.tomy.vmmserver.net with error code HostAgentFail. Specify valid provider, port and user credentials for storage discovery. ID: 26263
Any ideas are appreciated.