I have a Domain Controller that is currently only used for Active Directory and authenticating users to login to the Domain. The built in hard drives are very small in size.
Fast forward, I decided to use this server also as a file server.
For this, we have a NAS drive of size 12 TB that is connected to the network.
What I want is to make the 12 TB hard drive to be part of the Domain and appear in the windows server as if it was a hard drive inside the computer so that I can create files and give permissions to users on specific files and deny others etc.
Best Answer
Since it is required to add storage to Windows Server for configuration a kind of file share, I would suggest you take a look at StarWind Virtual SAN Free. It does iSCSI storage on top of local one thus it can be connected to any of your servers using iSCSI initiator. Moreover, StarWind allows the creation of HA storage in case you would require having some.Check the how-to guide here.