* Admin GUIs on servers are poison

Optimized for next-gen distributed applications Higher density and Reduced attack surface and servicing requirements Next-gen distributed app frameworks Interoperate with existing server applications Containers and modern applications Full GUI Specialized workloads Third-party applications RDS experience Server Core Lower maintenance server environment Traditional VM workloads Nano Server Just enough OS

Nano Server - Management

Demo PowerShell Core

Demo Remote Server Management Tools

Greater Visibility Simple Setup Lower MTTR Remotely view debug errors, events from your deployment process, boot loader, OS, and services Troubleshoot issues without requiring physical access Works on both physical and virtual machines Requires little additional infrastructure and can be set up using PowerShell or an unattend file Access to data is real-time and can be correlated with other diagnostic data to identify problems faster ETW Collector ETL Files Service

DevOps mindset: "Treat servers like cattle, not pets" Goal: Eliminate the need to ever sit in front of a server Remote graphical and web-based management tools Remote management and automation via PowerShell & WMI

Demo Emergency Management Console

Nano Server as an Application Platform

Physical, Virtual, Containers Nano Server Server Core Client (aka Server w/a Desktop Exp) (Aka Full Server) Local Admin Tools Remote Desktop Server

 Chef  PHP  Nginx  Python 3.5  Node.js  GO  Redis  MySQL  OpenSSL  Java (OpenJDK)  Ruby (2.1.5)  SQLite

Demo DevOps with Nano Server using PowerShell DSC

Server Core Nano Server Highly compatible Highly optimized Born-in-the-cloud applications

Traditional virtual machines = Hardware virtualization VM Containers = Operating system virtualization CONTAINER OS

Preliminary Results

Physical, Virtual, Containers Nano Server Server Core Born-in-the-Cloud applications Existing Enterprise Applications