Build steps not covered in this book

Before diving into the tools, you need to prepare your equipment. Most of these steps will be specific to the hardware that you have chosen to use, so this book can only provide extremely generic directions. It also does not cover the installation of Windows Server or Hyper-V Server, mostly because the installation process itself has no real options to set. Perform these tasks, following your hardware vendor's instructions where applicable:

There may be other steps not mentioned here that are specific to your environment, such as setting up routing for your Ethernet environment or attaching Fibre Channel interconnects.