- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Overview
- Configuring your NAS system
- Initial configuration of your NAS system
- Server Manager roles, role services, and features
- Installing or uninstalling Server Manager roles, role services, and features
- Accessing administrative tools for your NAS systems
- Accessing computer management
- Work folders
- Creating a new DFS namespace
- Creating new DFS replication group
- Adding DFS namespaces to display
- Adding replication groups to display
- File Server Resource Manager
- Multipath I/O
- Managing your NAS system
- Using your NAS system
- Creating server message block share
- Modifying message block shares
- NFS share
- Windows domain controller as identity mapping source
- User name mapping server as identity mapping source
- AD LDS as identity mapping source
- Configuring AD LDS for services for NFS
- Installing AD LDS server role
- Creating a new AD LDS instance
- Extending the AD LDS schema to support NFS user mapping
- Setting a default instance name for AD LDS instances
- Updating active directory schema
- Adding user and group account maps from a UNIX-based system to a Windows-based system
- Authorizing access to the ADS LDS namespace object
- Configuring the mapping source
- Debug notes for NFS account mapping problems
- Restarting the server for NFS
- Creating the NFS share
- Creating quotas using File Server Resource Manager
- Creating file screens using file Server Resource Manager
- Creating a new volume
- Managing a volume
- Extending a volume
- Shrinking a volume
- Deleting a volume
- Data deduplication
- Enabling and configuring shadow copies of shared folders
- Performing backup of your server
- NIC teaming
- Getting help
PowerVault NX Series Network Attached Storage Systems Windows Storage Server 2016 Administrator's Guide
Initial configuration of your NAS system
Initial configuration of your NAS system includes cabling the system, turning it on and the configuring the system using Server Manager. Follow these steps to complete the configuration of your NAS system.
About this task
NOTE: The NX Series systems support only BIOS mode.
Do not change the boot mode to UEFI because the system will
not load the appliance OS when in UEFI mode.
Steps
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Start your NAS system running Windows Storage Server 2016. The first time that you start up, click
OK on the Default Password screen.
NOTE: Before changing the password, ensure that you change the system language according to your preference.
Your system is configured with default user name administrator and password Stor@ge!
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To change your administrator password, press Ctrl+Alt+Delete, and then click
Change a Password.
Server Manager starts automatically when you log in the first time.
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In
Server Manager, click
Configure this local server to:
- Change the computer name
- Specify the domain
- Check for latest Windows updates
- Specify the time zone
- Configure Remote Desktop
NOTE: To go to a particular application, click the lower-left corner of the screen to locate the Start icon. - To change the default language, go to C:\Dell_OEM\MUI, and then run the appropriate language batch file. To install your preferred language, complete the on-screen instructions.
- Dell recommends creating a Dell Rapid Appliance Self Recovery image after completing the initial setup (NX3230, NX3240, NX3330, NX3340 systems only). For more information, see Dell Rapid Appliance Self Recovery (RASR) section in this document.
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