As part of my home lab, I decided to deploy MS SQL Server 2012 SP2 to host all of my databases where required for certain software (SCCM, SCORCH, etc). Rather than re-inventing the wheel, I found the following blog post which details the installation steps for you and thought I’d share it. Installing SQL Server…
Now that we have completed the AD pre-reqs, we can now look to deploy our new Server 2012 R2 Domain Controller. Deploy the base OS (Server 2012 R2) to the target device, be it physical or virtual. Carry out the standard configuration items for domain controllers (Static IP, Hostname, Updates, RDP, etc). Once complete, open…
The 4TB disks have now arrived and its time to get to work. As you may or may not know, the N40L has 4 slot bays for SATA disks and one 5.25″ bay empty for CD ROM Drives. I have decided to install a 200GB disk in the empty 5.25″ bay to fully utilise the…
Rather than spending money, I decided to re-purpose my HP Proliant Microserver N40L boxes that I previously had FreeNAS deployed to for ISCSI storage for my ESXi Nodes. As one server is currently not presenting any disks, I decided to build 2012 R2 directly on to it and found that after the initial build, it…
So the time has come to rebuild my lab which currently consists of a number of VMware ESXi nodes and a shed load of VMs. For the sake of this rebuild, all VMs will be trashed and will not be required (secondary DCs, Exchange, testing servers, files servers). I wont be going into deployment of…