Nano Server in Windows Server An AMA with Andrew Mason from Microsoft

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1 Nano Server in Windows Server 2016 An AMA with Andrew Mason from Microsoft

2 Agenda

3 Andy Syrewicze Twitter Blog Technical Evangelist for Altaro Software, providing community support, technical marketing and pre-sales expertise. Prior to that I spent the last 14+ years providing technology solutions across several industry verticals including, education, fortune 500 manufacturing, healthcare and professional services working for MSPs and Internal IT Departments. My focus has been in Virtualization, Cloud Services and the Microsoft Server Stack, with an emphasis on Hyper-V and interacting with the IT community via blogs, social media and published writings. info@altaro.com

4 Andrew Mason Program Manager Lead for the Nano Server team First PM for both Nano Server and Server Core, so I ve been trying to make Windows Server smaller for many years now. I ve been involved with Windows Server in one way or another at Microsoft since before Windows NT 3.1 shipped. Twitter Blog info@altaro.com

5 About Altaro Software Altaro is a fast-growing developer of userfriendly backup solutions for small and mid-market businesses. Virtual Backup trusted by 30,000+ Customers Flagship product: Altaro VM Backup altaro.com/vm-backup

6 Note about our upcoming live AMA NOTE: Any questions we can t tackle today will be posted with their answers along with the webinar recording in the next week or two at: NOTE: You can also sign up to be notified when the follow-up post is ready at:

7 *Slide Provided by Microsoft.

8 Challenges customers face *Slide Provided by Microsoft. Cost When I need to reboot my system, I need it to be back in service ASAP. Security I need to minimize OS vulnerabilities. Density My infrastructure requires too many resources; I need more VMs on a single host.

9 *Slide Provided by Microsoft. Why security is top IT priority Increasing incidents Multiple motivations Bigger risk

10 *Slide Provided by Microsoft. I want just the components I need and nothing more

11 *Slide Provided by Microsoft. Nano Server installation option Just enough OS Provides higher density, reduced attack surface and servicing requirements Third-party applications RDS experience Existing VM workloads Ideal for cloud inspired infrastructure Ideal for next generation app development

12 *Slide Provided by Microsoft. Nano Server Cloud-ready when you are Just enough OS model Server roles and optional features live outside of Nano Server. Standalone packages that install like applications. Key roles and features Hyper-V, SoFS, Clustering, IIS, and DNS Server Windows Defender, TPM, SIL, PowerShell DSC.NET Core and ASP.NET Core Full Windows Server driver support Anti-malware optional package System Center VMM and OM agents supported

13 Manage Nano Server remotely *Slide Provided by Microsoft. Not Command Line only Server Manager Hyper-V Manager Failover Cluster Manager PerfMon, Event Viewer, etc. Server Management Tools (SMT) new web-based remote GUI PowerShell Core

14 *Slide Provided by Microsoft.

15 Nano Server Cloud application platform *Slide Provided by Microsoft. Born-in-the-cloud application support Subset of Win32.NET Core and ASP.NET Core PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) PackageManagement (aka OneGet) Popular open source application frameworks Available as OS everywhere Host OS for physical hardware Guest OS in a VM Windows Server containers Hyper-V containers

16 *Slide Provided by Microsoft. Nano Server Developer experience Nano Server has a full developer experience, unlike Server Core. Windows SDK and Visual Studio 2015 target Nano Server. Rich design-time experience. Project template, full IntelliSense, error squiggles, etc. Full remote debugging experience.

17 *Slide Provided by Microsoft.

18 *Slide Provided by Microsoft. Footprint improvements Drivers loaded Services running Ports open Nano Server Server Core

19 *Slide Provided by Microsoft. Resource utilization improvements Process count Boot IO (MB) Kernel memory in use (MB) Nano Server Server Core

20 *Slide Provided by Microsoft. Deployment improvements Setup time (sec) Disk footprint (GB) VHD size (GB) Nano Server Server Core

21 Learn More *Slide Provided by Microsoft. Deploy Nano Server, apps, and tools. Deployment guide at: Nano Server Blog Channel9 Nano Server Channel Give us feedback and let us know where you encounter difficulties Remote Management feedback Deploy & Setup Server Management Tools Remote Management Tools Feedback

22 Altaro VM Backup v7.0 Efficient backup setup Up and running quickly, without the need for complex configurations Easy to use, intuitive UI Full control of your backups Manage and monitor backups across all your Hyper-V and VMware hosts from a single pane of glass - Scales easily! Augmented Inline Deduplication Praise winning support, which comes as part of the package Experts in Hyper-V and VMware who are quick to respond and resolve. Built specifically for small- and mid-market businesses

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25 Time for our live AMA! Reminder: Any questions we can t tackle today will be posted with their answers along with the webinar recording in the next week or two at: Reminder: You can also sign up to be notified when the follow-up post is ready at:

26 Thank you for Attending!