Find a suitable place to put your server before you run Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials Setup. The location you choose must have an available, wired network connection to your broadband router or to a switch that is connected to your broadband router as shown in the diagram. Verify that the broadband router and switch, if used, are powered on and functioning properly. Then connect your server to an electrical outlet.

You install and configure Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials in two steps: • In this step, you install the operating system on your server. • In this step, you complete the installation by providing information about your company, domain settings, and network administrator. This information is used to get the server ready for you to use.

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If you experience problems while installing and configuring Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials, review to help you resolve those problems. Install Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. • Disconnect any external USB or FireWire (IEEE 1394) hard drives. • Start from the Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials Installation DVD. • Place the DVD in the DVD drive of your server.

• Restart the computer from the DVD. • The Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials installation wizard starts. • Click New Installation. • Ensure that all of your internal hard disk drives are listed. If they are not, click Load drivers to add drivers for the internal hard disk drives that are not listed.

For more information, see “Adding Storage Controller Drivers” in. • Click I understand that if I click Install, all files and folders on my primary hard drive will be deleted, and then click Install. • The operating system is installed on your primary hard disk drive. This takes approximately 30 minutes. Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials offers two ways to finish the initial configuration of your server: • Finish the initial configuration at the server. When you use this option, you use the keyboard, mouse, and monitor that are connected to the server.

See for instructions. • Finish the initial configuration from a client computer. When you use this option, you connect to the server from a computer on the network. This is the preferred method. See for instructions. Complete the server configuration at the server console. Note If your web browser is Firefox, click F11 to ensure that the entire wizard page is visible on your monitor.

• Click the arrow button, and then click Run in the dialog box. • If you are prompted, click Yes in the User Account Control dialog box. • Follow the instructions in the wizard to configure Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. • Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials should be remotely administered. You can perform administration tasks from a client computer after you install the Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials Connector software.

Torrent Windows Vista Iso Fr here. What you might have missed is that Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 is also now available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers for evaluation. This means subscribers can now use the Microsoft iSCSI Target 3.3 for Development, Test and all other non-production purposes.

While this was also the case for Windows Storage Server 2008, this new R2 release allows you to install the iSCSI Target on any existing Windows Server 2008 R2 by simply installing an MSI (Microsoft Installer) file. That’s much more convenient for Developers, Testers and IT Profressionals out there. Usage Scenarios Here are a few things you could do with the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target: • Setup a test environment for Hyper-V (using Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2) using iSCSI shared storage.

• On a single laptop (with enough resources) create a development environment running a SQL Server cluster (two nodes, plus shared storage). • Evaluate Windows Server 2008 R2 Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) and Hyper-V Live Migration, using only regular Windows Server hardware. You are probably thinking of a few other ways to use this. If they are for evaluation (TechNet Plus or MSDN), demonstration (MSDN), development (MSDN) or test (MSDN), they are probably good scenarios as well.