Session: BRK2461
Note: This was a great session with the right balance of technical content. Demo gods were not with the speakers, so a couple of demos failed. Definitely worth viewing the video of though!
- Voice of the customer: Reboots impact my business, server images are too big, infrastructure requires too many resources, and security is a top concern.
- Windows Server Nano has been 10 years in the making
- Local admin GUIs on servers are poison
- Cloud Journey: (Azure does not have live migration). Patches and reboots interrupt service delivery.
- Microsoft realized they need a server OS optimized for the cloud
- A new headless, 64-bit, only deploy option. No RDP access.
- Zero footprint model – Server roles and operational features live outside of nano server. Standalone packages that install like apps.
- Full Windows server driver support (no special drivers)
- Roles: Hyper-V, scale out file server, and clustering. Core CLR, ASP.NET, and PaaS
- Anti-malware is built in
- Demos Hyper-V manager and failover clustering GUIs connecting to Nano server
- You can do offline domain join with nano server
- Eliminates the need to ever sit in front of a server
- Supports desired state configuration with SCCM. Supports core PowerShell and WMI
- Core PowerShell is available on Nano, not FULL PowerShell. Relies on CoreCLR, not full .NET which is not available on Nano server.
- Supports for all cmdlet types: C#, Script and CIM. Not all PowerShell commandlets are available. Approximately 600 commands available in tech preview 2.
- Intellisense for Powershell works on Nano
- Shows off bi-directional file transfer via powershell
- Remote server management tools: Web-based, includes replacement for local only tools (task manager, registry editor, event viewer, device manager, etc.) .GUI also manages server core and server with GUI.
- Nano server can be your cloud application platform
- Subset of Win-32
- Supports Windows server containers
- What runs on Nano? Chef, PHP, Nginx, Python 3.5, GO, Redis, MySQL, OpenSSL, Java, Ruby, SQLite
- Search Channel 9 for Nano videos
- Nano needs 1/10 the critical security patches that full server needs.
- Only 22 running services vs. 46 on full server
- 12 open ports vs. 31 open on full server
- Boot IO is 150MB vs. 255 for server core
- Setup time is 40 seconds, 5 minutes for server core
- Can PXE boot server Nano, deploy and customize in less than 3 minutes
- Disk footprint is 400MB vs. 5GB for core
- VHDX size is 400MB vs. 6.3GB for core
- No MSI support in Nano
- Focused on two scenarios: Cloud OS infrastructure, and born in the cloud apps
- Beginning of a HUGE refactoring process of the server OS. Only need the components you need should be installed.
