What you need for this book

To follow along on with this book, you need Windows Server 2016 ISO media, including System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager and System Center 2016 Operations Manager. We strongly believe in learning by doing; therefore, we encourage you to try out all of the technologies and principles covered in this book. You don't need a huge server. For most topics, you could use a single machine with Windows Server 2016 installed, 16 GB of memory, and by enabling Hyper-V nested virtualization, you could enable a few virtual machines to run concurrently. Ideally, having at least two physical workstations or servers will help you with the high availability clustering concepts. With Windows 10, the Hyper-V client is included in the box, so even without any kind of real server, it is possible to explore all the features introduced in Nano Server.