Answer:
Windows Server 2016 comes in standard and data center editions and offers several types of installation for both: Desktop Experience (full GUI mode), Core (no GUI mode).
We'll be using the Core version which makes use of the command prompt as the main tool.
To begin the server configuration, After opening the command prompt, she needs to enter the “Sconfig” command
The configuration tasks are as follows;
1. Change the Name of the Computer
- Type 2, and press Enter
- Enter the new Computer Name and press Enter
- You'll see prompt as dialog box with the message "the computer needs to be restarted in order to complete the operation successfully” Click OK.
- then another pops up as "You must restart your computer to apply these changes, Restart now?", Click YES.
2. Enable Remote Desktop
- you can start again after the Restart, by entering the “Sconfig” command
- From the main menu, type "7" as the option number, press enter and options will be displayed
- enable Remote Desktop for Clients running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication
- enable Remote Desktop for clients running any version of Remote Desktop
3. Perform Network Settings
Here, the IP address can be configured to be assigned automatically by a DHCP server or you can assign a static IP address manually.
- type "8" from the main menu and press Enter.
- a list of available network adapters that are attached to the server is shown, then Type 1, or the index number of the adapter that you want to configure, and then press Enter.
- the current configuration for the network adapter that you selected is displayed.
- Now type 1 and press Enter to configure the IP address for the selected network adapter
- Select option 1 and type S, then press Enter to manually assign a static IP to the network adapter.
- Type in the static IP address, and then press Enter
- Type in the Subnet mask, and then press Enter
- Type in the default gateway, and then press Enter
- Select option 2; by typing 2 and press Enter
- Type in the preferred DNS server, and then press Enter.
- You will be prompted with “Preferred DNS server set.” Click OK.
- Type in the alternate DNS server, and then press Enter.
- You will be prompted with “Alternate DNS Server set.” Click OK.
4. Connect ISCSI Shared Storage
- open the command prompt
- open Microsoft ISCSI initiator by entering “iscsicpl” into the command line
- type in the IP address or DNS name
- connect your storage via the iscsi target storage server IP address by Clicking Connect.
5. Format SCSI Storage Disk
- open the command prompt
- type “diskpart” and press Enter
- type “list disk” to see all the disks available on the server
- select disk 1
- “online disk” and “attributes disk clear” commands can be used to bring the disk online and to check if the partition is writable.
- Next, type “list partition” to see available disk partitions under a server
- Choose the partition you need with the “select partition 1” or which ever number is designated to the partition.
- type in “format fs=NTFS” to format the partition
- type in the “assign letter=F” command to assign a letter to the partition
Done.
