Notes from the field
July 6, 2017
As most of you know I like to stay technically astute and there's no better way to do that than to cover for a field tech that's on vacation.
Today I'm installing Windows Server 2016 on a new HPE ML30 Proliant Server. The server hardware setup portion of the install went fine. That process involved popping two hard drives into server. The server did not come with a DVD-ROM reader so I quickly contacted another tech in the area and had him drop off his reader. Since this is a small customer (less than 10 employees), I'll be configuring the server with RAID 1. The process involve using HP's embedded raid array utility. I selected both drives, each 1TB in size, which yield a new logical drive that's 995GB in size.After RAID configuration, its time to install operating systems. The OS install splash screen comes up and I choose Windows Server Standard 2016. The small print for this option indicates it will install the OS without the graphical user interface (GUI). I didn't see this up front and had to re-install to get GUI version. This is necessary due to old Quickbooks database server that needs GUI for installation. The other issue during the install was that Windows did not detect the new drive array and associated disk volume, so I had to go and download drives from HPE website.
New server is up and running. I didn't expect that taking the first and default OS option would install the command line only version, so be on the lookout for that.
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