Course Introduction
Course Title
- MCSA: Windows Server 2016
- Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate
Exam Require
You have to pass three required examination
- Exam 70-740 - Installation, Storage, and computer with Windows Server 2016
- Exam 70-741 - Networking with Windows Server 2016
- Exam 70-742 - Identity with Windows Server 2016
Trainer Introduction
Hi, I am Ruban, and in this course, I will cover the prerequisites and requirements for installing Windows Server 2016.
Okay now without wasting time let's see
Windows Server 2016 Requirements
Guys, let's take a look at the prerequisites and requirements for installing Server 2016
Processor
The very first thing that I’ve to check is I've got to have a processor and that processor has to be…
- 1.4 GHz 64-Bit Processor or better
- Compatible with x64 instruction set - Everything today, of course, is 64-bit.
- Supports NX and DEP – should support No-execute or DEP, Data Execution Prevention. Which can be found in a BIOS. When this option is enabled, it works with the processor to help prevent buffer overflow attacks by blocking code execution from memory that is marked as non-executable.
- Supports CMPXCHG16b, LAHF/SAHF, and PrefetchW
- Supports Second Level Address Translation (EPT or NPT)
These last two bullet points here, if these are unfamiliar to you, like Second Level Address Translation.
Well, all these are part of the hardware-assisted virtualization that makes the virtualization world that we live in today possible.
Storage controller and disk space requirements
- 32GB minimum disk space
- Storage Adaptor
- PCI Express architecture
- PATA persistent storage devices are Not supported.
- ATA/PATA/IDE/EIDE does not allow for boot, page, or data drives.
RAM
- Minimum 512 MB require, which sounds funny right? But that’s for server core installation, If I move to the GUI installation, minimum 2 GB is required.
- ECC (Error Correcting Code) type or similar technology is also required. If you don’t know ECC, well. this is a technology built into the memory chipset that corrects for the most common kinds of corruptions that we see.
Network Adapter
- Least gigabit or better throughput
- PCI Express Architecture Compliant
- Supports Pre-boot Execution Environment (PXE)
- NIC with network debugging (KDNet) is recommended but not required.
Now that PXE boot, those are the bootstrapping protocols, So on the NIC card, there's a protocol that is enough to get me an IP address binded to the NIC and let me do a network boot.
Virtual Guest Machines - Error and Fix
If your setup fails for virtual machines created with the minimum supported hardware parameters, like 1 processor core and 512 MB RAM, then install them with 800 MB of RAM. And then you can set it back once it's installed. Do a Shift+F10 to interrupt the boot, at the Command Prompt, use Diskpart to create the installation partition (in Drive C: ) And then run the Windows Pre-execution utility, or the Wpeutil with the create page file argument and the path switch with the path to where you want the page file to be located. Close the cmd window and allow the setup to proceed
Command: Wpeutil createpagefile /path=C:\pf.sys
Other requirements
- If you're installing from the media, you need a DVD drive.
- If you want a secure boot, you need a UEFI compliant chipset.
- If you want to have BitLocker, you got to have a version 2.0 over the TPM
- And if there's going to be a monitor, right, if you're not just remoting into these machines. If you're going to sit down and log into them, you're going to need a keyboard and a mouse.
- And you're going to need a graphics SVGA with 1024 x 768 or higher resolution.
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