To create a DHCP reservation for a specific server or resource, perform these instructions:
- Open the DHCP manager tool.
- Expand the left-hand pane down into the DHCP scope that we created earlier. Under this scope, you will see a folder called Reservations. Right-click on Reservations and click on New Reservation...
- Populate the fields. Your Reservation name field can contain anything descriptive. Fill out the IP address field with the IP address you want to reserve for this purpose. The last important piece of information is the MAC address field. This must be the MAC address of the device for which you want to receive this particular IP address. Since WEB1 is a Windows Server 2016 machine, we can get our MAC address by doing ...