Getting Started with Nano Server电子书

Title Page

Copyright

Getting Started with Nano Server

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Why subscribe?

Customer Feedback

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

Introduction to Nano Server

The story behind Nano Server

Business impact

Infrastructure impact

Security impact

The journey to Nano Server

Server Core

Cloud journey

Nano Server - management

What makes Nano Server unique?

Nano Server improvements

Servicing improvements

Security improvements

Resource utilization improvements

Deployment improvements

Summary

Getting Started with Nano Server

Getting started with Nano Server

Nano Server quick start

Nano Server customizations

Nano Server roles and features

Building and customizing a Nano Server image using Windows PowerShell

Advanced settings

Adding packages

Building and customizing a Nano Server image using Nano Server image builder

Customizing a Nano Server image using DISM

Customizing a Nano image using unattend.xml file

Injecting unattend.xml into VHD(X)

Optional customizations

Set computer name

Run commands on first boot

Domain join

Emergency management services

Installing agents and tools

Summary

Deploying Nano Server in a Virtual Machine and on Physical Hardware

Nano Server roles and features

Deploying Nano Server in a VM

Required parameters

Optional parameters

Deploying Nano Server VM in Hyper-V

Hyper-V Manager

PowerShell

Deploying Nano Server on a physical machine

Dual-boot a Nano Server VHD or VHD(X)

PxE-boot a bare-metal machine and install Nano Server from WDS using a VHD, VHD(X), or WIM file

Preparing the environment

Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS, DNS, DHCP)

Creating a custom Nano Server VHD(X) image

Creating a custom Nano Server WIM image

Installing and Configuring the WDS Role

Booting a bare-metal machine into WinPE and deploying Nano Server using a .wim file

Prerequisites

Setting up the WinPE environment

Deployment from WinPE with network and without WDS

Creating a custom WinPE boot image that has PowerShell enabled

Creating a WinPE ISO image

Creating a WinPE bootable USB thumb drive

Deploying Nano Server in Microsoft Azure

Requirements

Creating Nano Server in Azure

Summary

Deploying Hyper-V Cluster on Nano Server

Nano Server as a compute cluster

Deploying a Nano Server as a Hyper-V cluster

Deploying a Nano Server as compute host

Acquiring the ISO image of Windows Server 2016 Datacenter edition

Creating the new Nano Server images

Copying the new Nano Server images to the host machines

Rebooting into the new Nano Server image

Connecting and managing Nano Servers from a management machine

Configuring the network

Creating and configuring a Hyper-V cluster

Nano Server as a storage cluster

Deploying storage spaces direct on top of Nano Server

Creating and deploying Nano Server images

Configuring the network

Creating and configuring Storage Spaces Direct

Summary

Deploying, Managing, and Monitoring Nano Server with System Center 2016

Deploying Nano Server with system center virtual machine manager 2016

VMM bare-metal deployment

Preparing a Nano Server VHD(X) for a physical machine

VMM VM template deployment

Preparing a Nano Server VHD for a virtual machine

Managing Nano Server with system center virtual machine manager 2016

Installing the virtual machine manager agent on Nano Server

Managing network teaming on Nano Server

Monitoring Nano Server with System Center operations manager 2016

Installing the operations manager agent on Nano Server

Uninstalling the operations manager agent from Nano Server

Summary

Managing Nano Server with Windows PowerShell and Windows PowerShell DSC

Remote server graphical tools

Server Manager

Hyper-V Manager

Microsoft Management Console

Managing Nano Server with PowerShell

Managing Nano Server with PowerShell DSC

Creating a Nano Server image for PowerShell DSC

Creating Nano virtual machines

Importing the DSC xNetworking module

Push DSC configuration

Managing Nano Server Security Settings with PowerShell DSC

Summary

Managing Nano Server with Third-Party Tools

Nano Server administration using 5nine Manager

Creating and managing Nano Server failover clusters with 5nine Manager

Creating a cluster

Validating a cluster

Configuring live migration settings

Viewing the cluster summary

Managing cluster nodes

Managing clustered VMs

Host Load Balancing

Clustered virtual machine security

Summary

Running Windows Server Containers and Hyper-V Containers on Nano Server

Container overview

Container benefits

What is a container?

Containers versus virtual machines

Windows Server containers and Hyper-V containers

What is Docker?

Running Windows containers on Nano Server

Creating a Nano Server image for Windows Server containers

Creating a Nano Server VM for Windows Server containers

Creating a remote PowerShell session

Installing Docker

Installing base container images

Managing container networking

Managing container storage

Managing Docker on Nano Server

Creating a Windows Server container

Creating a Nano Server image for Hyper-V containers

Creating a Nano Server VM for Hyper-V containers

Creating a Hyper-V container

Converting a Windows Server container to a Hyper-V container

Summary

Troubleshooting Nano Server

Nano recovery console

Setting network configurations using the Nano Server recovery console

Emergency management services

Enabling EMS

Enabling EMS using PowerShell

Enabling EMS using DISM

Windows EMS in a virtual machine

Troubleshooting Nano Server VM using EMS

Windows EMS on a physical machine

Enabling a virtual serial port

Enabling the EMS Port in ROM-Based Setup Utility (RBSU)

Enabling Windows EMS in the bootloader of the Nano Server OS

Using PuTTY to establish an SSH connection to the iLO IP address

Using Windows EMS functionality to perform basic support administrative tasks

Kernel debugging

Installing WinDbg from Windows SDK

Debugging Nano Server using WinDbg

Setup and boot event collection (SBEC)

SBEC requirements

Installing the collector computer

Creating the Active.xml configuration file

Configuring the target and collector computer

Configuring Nano Server as a target computer

Configuring the collector computer

Analyzing and reading diagnostic messages

Enabling access to Nano Server event logs

Summary

Running Other Workloads on the Nano Server

Running DNS on Nano Server

Running IIS on Nano Server

Installing and managing Windows Defender on Nano Server

Managing the Local Administrator's Passwords on Nano Server

Prerequisites

Installation

Using MPIO on Nano Server

Using Windows Update on Nano Server

Update Out of Box (OOB) drivers for Nano Server

The future of Nano Server

Summary