
A Principled Technologies test report 17
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: Performance advantages with an
open source software stack
Installing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system
1. Insert and boot from the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 installation DVD.
2. At the Install Windows screen, select English, English (United States), and US for the installation language, time
format, and keyboard. Click Next.
3. On the next screen, click the arrow.
4. On the Select operating system screen, select Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Enterprise (Full Installation), and
click Next.
5. At the Microsoft Software License screen, select I accept the license terms, and click Next.
6. Select Custom Install.
7. At the Where do you want to install Windows screen, select the correct disk, and click Next to start the
installation process. It will reboot in the middle of the installation and continue the installation.
8. At the change password screen, click OK, enter the Administrator’s password twice, and click the arrow.
9. At the Your password has been changed screen, click OK to log on.
10. Windows will start a wizard for completing Initial Configuration tasks.
11. Click Activate Windows to enter a Product License.
12. Click Set time zone in order to set the date, time, and time zone as well as to configure automatic DST switching,
and SNTP servers.
13. Click Configure networking to open the Network Connections window.
14. Right-click the appropriate network adapter, and select Properties from the pop-up menu.
15. At the Networking screen, select Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4), and click Properties.
16. At the Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) Properties window, select Use the following IP address, and enter
the IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway (if needed) for the management network.
17. Select Use the following DNS server address, and enter the Preferred and Alternate DNS server IP addresses.
18. Click OK to return to Networking.
19. Click OK to return to the Network Connections window.
20. Press Ctrl-W to close and return to the setup wizard.
21. Click Enable Remote Desktop.
22. At the Remote tab, select Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop Protocol.
23. Run Microsoft Update
24. Reboot the server.
25. Log in as administrator.
26. Create the folders c:\DS2, c:\MySQL, c:\MySQL\dat01, c:\MySQL\dat02, c:\MySQL\dat03,
c:\MySQL\log01, c:\MySQL\log02, and c:\MySQL\log03.
27. Start the local Server Manager, expand the Storage entry, and open Disk Management.
28. Create seven simple NTFS volumes: three 20GB volumes, three 5GB volumes, and one 50GB volume.
29. Assign the 20GB volumes to c:\MySQL\dat01, c:\MySQL\dat02, c:\MySQL\dat03.
30. Assign the 5GB volumes to c:\MySQL\log01, c:\MySQL\log02, c:\MySQL\log03.
31. Assign the 50 GB volume to c:\DS2.
32. Finally, configure the DVD Store client network interface with three IP address: 192.168.30.21, 192.168.30.22,
and 192.168.30.23 by opening the adapter’s properties, and then the Internet Protocol 4 (TCP/IPv4) properties.
Enter 192.168.30.21 and 255.255.255.0 for the IP address and subnet mask.
33. Click Advanced, and click Add.
34. Enter the second IP address, and click Add.
35. Repeat for the remaining IP address.
36. Close the Properties windows.
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