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Getting Started with Nano Server

You're reading from   Getting Started with Nano Server Automate multiple VMs and transform your datacenter

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782175223
Length 406 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Charbel Nemnom Charbel Nemnom
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Preface 1. Introduction to Nano Server FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Nano Server 3. Deploying Nano Server in a Virtual Machine and on Physical Hardware 4. Deploying Hyper-V Cluster on Nano Server 5. Deploying, Managing, and Monitoring Nano Server with System Center 2016 6. Managing Nano Server with Windows PowerShell and Windows PowerShell DSC 7. Managing Nano Server with Third-Party Tools 8. Running Windows Server Containers and Hyper-V Containers on Nano Server 9. Troubleshooting Nano Server 10. Running Other Workloads on the Nano Server

The future of Nano Server


The future of Nano Server is all about containers. In the next release of Windows Server and beyond, Microsoft will optimize Nano Server image for containers. The uncompressed Nano container image in Windows Server 2016 is about 1 GB in size, this includes components not relevant for containers such as components needed for physical and virtual machines. Microsoft is significantly working on reducing the size of the image on disk by 50% and even more by the time you read this. This has two benefits. Firstly, it will speed up the start-up time of containers, and secondly, will minimize the bandwidth needed when you pull the image from Docker Hub (repository). All the components not relevant for containers and modern application development will be removed from the image. The optional components will be delivered as layers. Let's say, you need to pull a Nano optimized container image, and if you want .NET Core, you need to pull .NET as a layer on top of the image...

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