From my previous article I created Nano server VHD image and deployed it as virtual machine on Vmware Workstation. This article I will be focusing on configuration of network settings, Currently I have only one network adapter, from main menu after login, Hit enter for Network settings and select the Ethernet card. While configuration I found it is some what same to Esxi DCUI based configuration.
HOW TO INSTALL WINDOWS NANO SERVER ON VMWARE WORKSTATION AND V2V CONVERTER
Press F11 to setup IPV4 address settings.
Disable DHCP, and provide IP address, Hit enter to save the configuration.
Once everything is successful, you will see Operation succeeded on IP configuration menu.
Next from the main screen Link, Go to the WinRM and configure it. Before proceeding go through the another article POWERSHELL PS REMOTING BETWEEN STANDALONE WORKGROUP COMPUTERS to understand the Windows Remote management (WINRM) and configuration. By configuring this step I am enabling ps remoting and opening required ports on firewall in one shot.
WinRM is the Microsoft implementation of the WS-Management (WS-Man) protocol which provides a secure way to communicate with local and remote computers using web services. If you have lost the ability to remotely manage this server over WinRM this option will allow you to reset the WinRM firewall and service configuration to their default settings and allow connections from ANY subnet.
In next few steps I will test the PowerShell remoting connectivity.
As I want to configure file server and need to do ping test, under Inbound Firewall Rules from previous main screen Link, I will enable File and Printer Sharing (Echo Request - ICMPv4-In), Hit enter. (Inbound is connection coming into Nano server, and Outboud is connection leaving from Nano server.)
Firewall rule can be enabled and disabled using F4 key button, Allow and deny status can be seen on Action.
First thing I will verify nano server is pinging from my desktop, as I can see it is successful and can go ahead with further configuration.
After opening required inbound firewall ports and enabling remote management Nano can be configured remotely using Server Manager, I am on my one of Windows 2012 R2 server, Opened Server Manger, click Create a Server Group, on the wizard select DNS,
I will search for the Nano server IP, as it doesn't exist in DNS server, It might throw an error Searching for the given IP. and shows, No DNS entry found matching your search text, and I will add it any way.
Provide Server group a name, I have named it NanoGroup, Once server is selected from the list, click OK to save it.
On the Left hand side of Server Manager, click the NanoGroup menu, choose the nano server from list, right click and select Manage as to Provide username and password, As server is in workgroup user name will be ~\administrator.
Once Server is connected successfully, right click on the nano server again and go to the Add roles and features.
In the Add roles and Features Wizard, select the nano server, press next.
If you see here there are very few roles, This is because, While creating NANO image I only had injected 2 packages in it, Storage and Hyper-V as shown in earlier blog HOW TO INSTALL WINDOWS NANO SERVER ON VMWARE WORKSTATION AND V2V CONVERTER.
POWERSHELL PS REMOTING BETWEEN STANDALONE WORKGROUP COMPUTERS
From the powershell, remote into the nano server, using command. Enter-PSSession -ComputerName 192.168.33.31 -Credential (Get-Credential), It pops up for the username password, as shown username will be ~\administrator.
If connection is successful, PowerShell prompt will change to Nano server IP or FQDN, I want to create and share one folder remotely on Nano server, For this I will change the directory using command cd \, next I am creating a empty directory Temp on C: with command mkdir c:\temp. With next command I am sharing this folder with Everyone user for demo purpose.
New-SmbShare -Name 'Temp' -Path 'C:\temp' -FullAccess 'Everyone'
In below screenshot I am accessing Shared drive and copied some files.
