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Posted by2 years ago
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I just built a brand new white box of off a Dell 1700. I'm using the Dell custom 6.5 image. Every OS works fine except 2016 where it's displaying the 'Load Driver' error. I made sure to get the latest ISO from my VLK site and I tried every other Win server OS without a hiccup. Any Ideas?
Update: So i got it to work. I went ahead and reinstalled esxi, this time with the oem build and not the dell version. I also killed both of my datastores and re-created them. And now it's working. I also made sure that the datastores where created with version 6 compatibility. I don't know what this was affecting 2016 and not any other version of windows. Thanks everyone for your suggestions and support!
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Installing Windows Server 2016 upgrades us once again from Windows Server 2012/R2 that provides the latest and the essential updates we need. As well as this time, it has includes lots of new and features. In this lesson, you will learn about installing Windows Server 2016 step by step. Also, before installing, make sure you have pre-planned for selecting which edition to install and what to do in it.
Before installing Windows Server 2016 you need to plan for the installation. Making plan means you should choose an appropriate edition of Windows server. You should think of Hyper-v server you need for your network. You must choose an edition which have enough the Hyper-v license. Also think of more licenses you may need in the future.
Every edition of Windows server may support limited number of users. Choose the edition that meets your needs. When we talk about limitations, we don’t talk about software limitations. If you want more license you should pay for. You can upgrade from one edition to another edition. And you can buy more license for physical and virtual servers also users.
Windows server 2016 editions
Hardware Requirements
Installing Windows Server 2016 on VMware
Like the previous versions (Windows Server 2012…), the Windows Server 2016 installation is simple, what’s new is the editions that you can choose them wisely during installation.
In order to install Windows Server 2016, first, you must have an ISO image file of it and also make sure you have pre-planned choosing which edition of Windows Server 2016 and have fulfilled the system requirements.
Download Now: Windows Server 2016
Create and Customize the Virtual Machine
1. Open VMware and click on the Create a New Virtual Machine(Ctrl+N) icon. If you don’t have VMware installed on your computer,click here to download one.
Create new virtual machine
2. Now select Custom (Advanced) option to specify the virtual machine with advance options. If you want you can create virtual with less options, click on Typical option. When you are finished here, click on Next button.
3. Leave the Virtual Machine Hardware Compatibility settings as default. If you want you can select your VMware version. Then click Next button.
Hardware Compatibility
4. Here you should add an installer image into the virtual machine. Select the Installer disc image file (ISO) optionand click on the Browse button. Specify .iso file path and import it. Then click on Next button.
Note: Make sure that you are using an ISO image file, otherwise unzipped file won’t boot.
5. Specify which operating system type you want to install on the virtual machine. Select Windows Server 2016 version from the dropdown menu and click on Next button.
Select operating system type
6. Enter a name for the virtual machine and browse a place where you want to store the installation files. For the purpose click on Browse button and specify the place. When finished, click on Next button.
7. On the Processor Configuration specify then number of processors your server need to use and click on Next button. Also notice that it refers to your virtual machine speed that how much speed the server should be.
Number of processors
8. Specify the amount of the memory for the virtual machine (based on MB) and click on Next button.
9. Select Use Network Address Translation(NAT) or Use bridged networking to directly connect and use internet, as a network type. Then hit Next.
Network address translation
10. Let the I/O Controller types by default because you don’t have the option to change the SCSI type. just hit Next.
11. Now to create new virtual disk, select create a new virtual disk for the virtual machine.
12. Specify the disk amount by typing the disk size(Recommended 60 GB) and click on Next button.
13. At this point, just check out the settings you’ve done or you can customize if you want and click Next.
Finish the wizard
Step 2. Install Windows Server 2016
Now it’s time to boot up and start the virtual machine, just click on Power on this virtual machine then wait until it boots.
1. Open VMware Workstation on your host computer. Click on Power on this virtual machine in top left. Grand piano esx logic sample questions.
2. When the virtual machine powered on, specify the language, time zone and keyboard then click Next.
Drivers For Windows Server 2016
Specify language, time, keyboard
3.Install now to install the windows server 2016 on virtual machine.
4. Select one the Windows Server editions you’ve decided and click on Next button.
Select server edition
5. Put a mark in the box next to I accept the license terms, then click on the Next button.
6. Go on and click on the Custom: Install Windows only (Advanced) option for installing the server custom.
Custom: install windows only
7. Select the disk, you want to install the widows on and select the disk, click on New, then specify the amount (based on MB) and click on Apply button then click on Next button.
8. Now the server copies all the files to the disk, amount the files from the windows image, install features, updates, so it will take time and when finished it will reboot.
Copy files
9. After the reboot, type a complex password composed of (uppercase, lowercase, symbols and numbers) and click on Finish button.
10. When the customization finished, now you’ll need to sign in, but first click on the button that is composed of three buttons (ctrl+alt+del) shown in image below or simply press Ctrl+Alt+Del and sign in to Windows Server.
Login to Windows Server
And that’s it, after you have signed in, your windows server installation is completed like the shot below.
Conclusion
The Windows server 2016 is installed successfully and your server is now ready to work now. But before doing that don’t forget to install VMware tools + do initial configuration of Windows Server from the article below. For any questions, leave a comment.
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Hi all,
Windows Server 2016 Vmware Tools
Before I start, I have to say that I've been using ESXi for many years, but only touching on the basics of it. I use the free version and it's just your regular create VM, start it up, apply patches, etc. My hardware is a bit old (2x 4-core E5410 @ 2.33GHz, 20GB RAM, host runs off of a 256GB SSD but all VMs run off of 10K RPM spinning disks in RAID1).
I'm struggling to get my Windows Server 2016 VM to be at least as 'speedy' as my Server 2012 one. I say 'speedy' because of the old hardware, but it's adequate for my current needs.
Some details: Server 2012 VM uses hardware version 9, it's configured with 4 vCPUs and 4GB of RAM, with its C: drive stored in a VMFS5 volume backed by 2x 1TB 10K RPM spinning disk drives in RAID1. This is what I get in CrystalDiskMark (please don't laugh too hard):
SeqQ32T1 Read: 271MB/s Write: 211MB/s 4KQ32T1 Read: 3.26MB/s Write: 3.82MB/s
The Server 2016 VM was initially running on hardware version 13 (later downgraded, see below), it's configured with 8 vCPUs and 12GB of RAM and with C: drive hosted in the same VMFS volume as the Server 2012 drive. This is what I get:
SeqQ32T1 Read: 83MB/s Write: 83MB/s 4KQ32T1 Read: 2.26MB/s Write: 1.96MB/s
What gives?
I read somewhere that before update 1 was available you'd need to apply a workaround for slow I/O on Server 2012R2 and 2016 on hardware version 13 by disabling delete notify on the guest OS ('fsutil behavior set DisableDeleteNotify 1'). I had done that and noticed no difference. Since then, I upgraded to ESXi 6.5 update 1 and again, noticed no difference.
More recently I downgraded the VM hardware to version 10 in hopes to get things to behave better. The VM feels ever so slightly better, but the improvement was too small. Here's what I'm seeing now:
SeqQ32T1 Read: 103MB/s Write: 105MB/s 4KQ32T1 Read: 1.95MB/s Write: 1.99MB/s
Does anyone have any idea of what I can do to improvement the responsiveness of this VM?
Thank you!
Edit: update Thanks to everyone that provided their input so far. Here's what I've tried so far:
Differences between the Windows Server 2012 VM and the Windows Server 2016 VM, including some new information I found:
Edit2: more updates More things I tried:
Edit3: new data
Thanks again to everyone that offered their suggestions. I have some follow up to do (reading some of the articles linked below) and then I'll report back.
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Applies to: Windows Server 2016
These release notes summarize the most critical issues in the Windows Server 2016 operating system, including ways to avoid or work around the issues, if known. For information about by-design changes, new features, and fixes in this release, see What's New in Windows Server 2016 and announcements from the specific feature teams. Unless otherwise specified, each reported issue applies to all editions and installation options of Windows Server 2016.
This document is continuously updated. As critical issues requiring a workaround are discovered, they are added, as are new workarounds and fixes as they become available.
Express updates available starting in November 2018 (NEW)
Starting with the November 2018 'Update Tuesday' update, Windows will again publish Express updates for Windows Server 2016. If you're using WSUS and System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) you will once again see two packages for the Windows Server 2016 update: a Full update and an Express update. If you want to use Express for your server environments, you need to confirm that the server has taken a full update since November 2017 (KB# 4048953) to ensure the Express update installs correctly. If you attempt an Express update on a server that hasn't been updated since the 2017 11B update (KB# 4048953), you'll see repeated failures that consume bandwidth and CPU resources in an infinite loop. If you get into this scenario, stop pushing the Express update, and instead push a recent Full update to stop the failure loop.
Server Core installation option
When you install Windows Server 2016 by using the Server Core installation option, the print spooler is installed and starts by default even when the Print Server role is not installed.
To avoid this, after the first boot, set the print spooler to disabled.
Containers
Device Guard
If you use virtualization-based protection of code integrity or Shielded virtual machines (that use virtualization-based protection of code integrity), you should be aware that these technologies could be incompatible with some devices and applications. You should test such configurations in your lab before enabling the features on production systems. Failure to do so could result in unexpected data loss or stop errors.
Microsoft Exchange
If you attempt to run Microsoft Exchange 2016 CU3 on Windows Server 2016, you will experience errors in the IIS host process W3WP.exe. There is no workaround at this time. You should postpone deployment of Exchange 2016 CU3 on Windows Server 2016 until a supported fix is available.
Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT)
If you're running a version of Windows 10 older than the Anniversary Update, and are using Hyper-V and virtual machines with an enabled virtual Trusted Platform Module (including shielded virtual machines), and then install the version of RSAT provided for Windows Server 2016, attempts to start those virtual machines will fail.
To avoid this, upgrade the client computer to Windows 10 Anniversary Update (or later) prior to installing RSAT. If this has already occurred, uninstall RSAT, upgrade the client to Window 10 Anniversary Update, and then reinstall RSAT.
Shielded virtual machines
Start menu
This issue affects Windows Server 2016 installed with the Server with Desktop Experience option.
If you install any applications which add shortcut items inside a folder on the Start menu, the shortcuts won't work until you log out and log back in again.
Go back to the main Windows Server 2016 hub.
Storport Performance
Some systems may exhibit reduced storage performance when running a new install of Windows Server 2016 versus Windows Server 2012 R2. A number of changes were made during the development of Windows Server 2016 to improve security and reliability of the platform. Some of those changes, like enabling Windows Defender by default, result in longer I/O paths that can reduce I/O performance in certain workloads and patterns. Microsoft does not recommend disabling Windows Defender as it is an important layer of protection for your systems.
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