{"id":700,"date":"2016-01-19T18:39:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T17:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/?p=700"},"modified":"2016-01-19T18:39:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T17:39:34","slug":"installing-nano-server-on-phisical-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/?p=700","title":{"rendered":"Installing Nano server on Phisical computer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many of us are testing Nano servers, but as creating VHD is well documented and you can find step-by-step instruction anywhere, deploying Nano server on a host computer is not well documented. I will try to make a step-by-step deployment for deploying a Nano server on a physical server and disk in this post.<\/span>
\nAll files that you need for deploying a Nano server are located in NanoServer folder on the installation DVD.<\/span>
\nFor begin deployment you have few possibilities; you can start from Win PE environment, WDS or installation DVD. If you start from DVD or WDS, you have to launch a setup program and then in the first step (where you can choose the language) press Shift + F10 to open command prompt. Actually we do not need installation, but we use it only to access to the command prompt.<\/span>
\nNow, we will use diskpart.exe for preparing and partitioning the disk. Here you have to know some limitations: Nano server will start if disk is in formatted GPT mode and here we will prepare the disk to start from UEFI. So, let start and prepare our disk:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Diskpart<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nWith this command you will enter in the diskpart mode<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
List disk<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nUse to locate the disk where you want to install the Nano server. (in my case is number 2)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Select disk 2<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nSelect the right disk<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Detail disk<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nOptional \u2013 with this command you will receive detailed info about the selected disk <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Clean<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nIf there are some partition on disk, you have to delete them<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Convert GPT<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nThis command will convert your disk to GPT<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The next step is creating partitions that we need. As we want to use UEFI boot, we need three partitions.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Create Partition MSR Size=128<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nCreate MSR (Microsoft reserved) partition<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Create Partition EFI Size=128<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nCreate System partition<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Format FS=FAT32 Quick Label=EFI<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nFormat System partition<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Assign Letter=S<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nAssign letter to System partition<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Create Partition Primary<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nCreate primary partition<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Format FS=NTFS Ouick Label=System<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nFormat primary partition<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Assign letter=W<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nAssign drive letter to primary partition<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Exit<\/strong> <\/span><\/td>\nExit from diskpart<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

With these steps we prepared the disk for deploying server. Now we have all partitions ready, but we still need to deploy the server image and create this disk as bootable.<\/span>
\nFor deploying the image, we will use DISM. Deploying image with DISM is exactly the same as in previous versions, but you have to remember that when you will log in to Nano server, you will not be able to add or remove functionalities or manage server directly from server \u2013 this must be done remotely. For this reason, it is better to deploy packages we need in this step. Of course OEM drivers package is mandatory as we are deploying server to physical server.<\/span><\/p>\n

For deploing server image on the disk you have to use DISM in this way: <\/span><\/p>\n

dism \/Apply-image \/Imagefile:C:\\nanoserver\\nanoserver.wim \/Index:1 \/Applydir:W:\\<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

You may have to change the file destination and apply directory based on your configuration. <\/span>
\nNow the server image is deployed on the disk, but it is only a basic image and we still have to deploy drivers and functionalities that we need. All of this can be done by deploying packages and drivers. In some cases, you will need to deploy additional drivers (for example RAID drivers). This deployment is also done with DISM, but is not covered in this article.<\/span>
\nPackages that are available for Nano server are located in Packages folder on DVD and you can choose which to install. DISM command for installing the package is:<\/span><\/p>\n

dism \/Add-Package \/PackagePath:C:\\NanoServer\\packages\\Microsoft-NanoServer-DSC-Package.cab \/Image:w:\\<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Once again you have to change the package location and name and where to deploy it (image parameter), based on your configuration. In this way you have to deploy all packages you need; one by one. This are packages that are available for Nano server:<\/span><\/p>\n

Compute = Hyper-V Server<\/span>
\nOEM-Drivers = Standard OEM Drivers (required if server is host)<\/span>
\nStorage = Storage Server<\/span>
\nFailoverCluster = FailOver Cluster Server<\/span>
\nReverseForwarders = ReverseForwarders to allow some older App Servers to run<\/span>
\nGuest = Hyper-V Guest Tools (reqired if server is virtualized)<\/span>
\nContainers = Support for Hyper-V and Windows containers<\/span>
\nDefender = Windows Defender<\/span>
\nDCB = Data Center Bridging<\/span>
\nDNS = DNS Server<\/span>
\nDSC = PowerShell Desired State Configuration Support<\/span>
\nIIS = Internet Information Server (Web Server)<\/span>
\nNPDS = Network Performance Diagnostics Service<\/span>
\nSCVMM = System Center VMM<\/span>
\nSCVMM-Compute = Sysmte Center VMM Compute<\/span><\/p>\n

Now remains only to make the disk bootable and we will use BCDBOOT:<\/span><\/p>\n

bcdboot w:\\windows \/s s: \/f UEFI<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t forget that some switches may have to be different and they depend on your configuration. W:\\Windows<\/em> is the folder where you have the deployed server image and S:<\/em> is the letter of EFI partition. <\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, we have all done, just reboot the server and use it. <\/span>
\nAs in all other server installations, on first logon you have to change the Administrator password. Don\u2019t be afraid how, just try to logon with blank password and you will be asked for a new one.<\/span>.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many of us are testing Nano servers, but as creating VHD is well documented and you can find step-by-step instruction anywhere, deploying Nano server on a host computer is not well documented. I will try to make a step-by-step deployment for deploying a Nano server on a physical server and disk in this post. All […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[19,40],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualization","category-windows-server","tag-hyper-v","tag-windows-server"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}