NEC Express5800 Server Series
Windows Server® 2016

Support Information

What's New

Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2016 is the latest operating system that is more cloud/highbrid ready than Windows Server 2012 R2, with features useful for on-premise such as availability, interoperability and security steadily enhanced.
This website provides technical information about Windows Server 2016.
Please refer to the following website for more information on Windows Server 2016.
The Release Notes include precautions for using containers and adding shortcut items on the Start menu.

• Build your future with Windows Server 2016(Microsoft)
• What's New in Windows Server 2016(Microsoft)
• Release Notes: Important Issues in Windows Server 2016(Microsoft)

Support Kit for Windows Server 2016

"Window Server 2016 Support Kit" (hereinafter called "Support Kit") is the generic name of manuals, drivers and software necessary when using Windows Sever 2016 on Express5800 series servers.
Click here to go to the web site of Support Kit for Windows Server 2016. In the site, you can find the manuals, drivers and software necessary for using Windows Server 2016.

Supported OS Versions / Editions on Express5800 series servers

Supported Models

As of June 2017, Windows Server 2016 is available on the models listed below.

Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V®

Technical Information

NIC Teaming (LBFO)

Please refer to the guide below for configurations of NIC teaming, and notes and restrictions.

Windows Server 2016 NIC Teaming (LBFO) Setup Guide

Scalable Networking Pack (SNP)

Please refer to Considerations for Using Scalable Networking Pack (SNP)

Notes

For notes specific to each model, refer to the web site of "Support Kit for Windows Server 2016" of each model.

• Nano Server installation option is not supported on Express5800 series servers.
• Device Guard and Credential Guard are not supported on Express5800 series servers. Don't enable these functions.
• 4KB sector hard drives (N8150-490/503/513) are not supported on Express5800 series servers running Windows Server 2016.
• Wake On LAN is only supported with a factory-installed standard network adapter.
• Wake On LAN of Scalable HA Server is supported by 100BASE-T Adapter(2 port)(NE3304-151M) only.
• "An exception happened in the RAID Viewer" error may occur on Universal RAID Utility when failing to get RAID system information because of some causes such as delayed reply due to temporary high-load.
  In such a case, please close RAID Viewer once and reopen it.
  After that, check if the RAID Viewer displays RAID System information correctly or not.
  If RAID Viewer cannot open, or RAID System Information is not displayed, please restart "Universal RAID Utility" service.
  
• When offline, help information for some features may not be displayed, with the pop-up saying “a new application is necessary to open this ms-get-started.” Please use the help function in online environments; the following web page will open. NEC reproduced this issue with Power Options, Explorer and Notepad.
  [Windows 10 help]
  https://support. microsoft.com/en-us/products/windows?os=windows-10 (Microsoft)
• On Windows Server 2016, significant deterioration of backup performance may occur if performing a backup to an LTO, RDX or HDD when Windows Defender is running. Windows Defender is running by default on Windows Server 2016. If backup performance is important, consider taking a measure such as disabling Windows Defender or using anti-virus software.

• Notes for Installation

If you installed Windows Server 2016 using an English version of the install media provided by NEC, you may fail to add or remove Windows features after rebooting the machine due to the behavior of the LPRemove task(*).

(*)Please refer to the web site of LPRemove task.
   Add Language Packs to Windows(Microsoft) ->[The Language-Pack Removal Task]

Please implement one of the following measures to work around this issue.

1. Manually deleting unnecessary Language Packs

"lpksetup /u" command can start a tool to remove Language Packs.

2. Configuring the settings to stop LPRemove task at the initial login

<measure.1> Disabling " LPRemove" task

    1) Start the Task Scheduler.
    2) Expand the folder tree as follows in the left pane of the Task Scheduler.
       [Task Scheduler Library] - [Microsoft] - [Windows] - [MUI]
    3) Right click on "LPRemove" and select [Disable].



<measure.2> Preventing the Group Policy(*) from removing Language Packs

    (*)available in Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012 and later

    1) Start the Local Group Policy Editor and expand the folder tree as follows.
       [Computer Configuration] - [Administrative Templates]
         - [Control Panel] - [Regional and Language Options]
    2) Enable " Block clean-up of unused language packs" setting.

• In December 2017, Microsoft made revisions to the ReFS policy.
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  ReFS is not supported with hardware virtualized storage
  such as SANs or RAID controllers in non-passthrough mode.
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• Notes for using Windows Server 2016 Server Core
• If you use NEC ESMPRO ServerAgentService on Windows Server 2016 Server Core, read the precautions written in "NEC ESMPRO ServerAgentService Ver. 1.3 Installation Guide (Windows)".
• NEC ESMPRO Manager cannot be used on Windows Server 2016 Server Core.

• Notes for using BitLocker
• Without the recovery password, the operating system does not start and partitions encrypted with BitLocker can never be accessed again. Be sure to keep the recovery password in a safe place outside the server where BitLocker is used. For more details, refer to "Windows Server 2016 Installation Guide" included in the Support Kits for the applicable model.
• If you reinstall the operation system to a partition encrypted with BitLocker, delete the encrypted partition once before the reinstallation.

Restrictions

• The screen resolution is automatically selected according to the monitor connected and cannot be changed manually.
• NEC published graphic accelerator drivers to avoid this restriction.
  For the details regarding each target server, refer to the web pages below.

• Update Module of Graphics Accelerator Driver (4.03.01.004) for EXPRESSSCOPE Engine 3 Equipped Devices (Windows Server 2016)
• Update Module of Graphics Accelerator Driver (9.00.10.0103) for Express5800/D120h (Windows Server 2016)

• During using Hyper-V, an event "Source: Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-Hypervisor, Event ID: 154" may be registered to the event log. The registration of this event does not affect operation of OS.
• If you use RDX drive with a machine running Hyper-V, "Event ID:11" may be registered when booting the device in rare cases.
  When the ID is registered, the drive letter assigned to the RDX drive may be have been changed.
  Check if the drive letter has been changed when you boot the RDX drive.

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