In Chapter 3, Deploying Nano Server in a Virtual Machine and on Physical Hardware, we covered how to create Nano Server images, then we showed you how to deploy the image in a virtual machine using Hyper-V Manager and in Windows PowerShell. We also discussed the deployment options for Nano Server on a bare-metal machine using WinPE and WDS, and lastly we covered how to deploy Nano Server in Microsoft Azure.
As discussed earlier in this book, Nano Server was created to serve as cloud fabric and infrastructure for Hyper-V storage, clustering and networking, which is our focus in this chapter, and it was also designed to be a deployment option for cloud application (platform-as-a-service v2 and ASPT.NET v5 applications).
This chapter will give you both a specific standalone example of how to deploy Nano Server as a compute cluster and storage...