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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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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Nano Server 2. Getting Started with Nano Server FREE CHAPTER 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

Remote server graphical tools


Without the Graphical User Interface (GUI), it's not easy to carry out the daily management and maintenance of Windows Server. For this reason, Microsoft integrated Nano Server with all the existing graphical tools that you are familiar with such as Hyper-V Manager, failover cluster manager, Server Manager, registry editor, file explorer, disk and device manager, Server configuration, computer management, users and groups console, and so on. All these tools and consoles are compatible for managing Nano Server remotely. The GUI is always the easiest to use.

In this section, we will discuss how to access and set the most common configurations in Nano Server with remote graphical tools.

Server Manager

Before we start managing Nano Server, we need to obtain the IP address or the computer name of the Nano Server to connect to and remotely manage a Nano instance, either on a physical or virtual machine.

Login to your management machine and make sure you have installed...

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