Chapter 9. Troubleshooting Nano Server

In Chapter 8, Running Windows Server Containers and Hyper-V Containers on Nano Server, we talked about how to run Nano containers and Hyper-V containers on top of a Nano Server container host.

One of the most frequent questions that we hear a lot is, how do we troubleshoot a headless server without logging into it? There is no support for a remote desktop to administer and troubleshoot the system. Whether we like it or not, sometimes things go wrong and we need to troubleshoot. We already saw in Chapter 6, Managing Nano Server with Windows PowerShell and Windows PowerShell DSC, how to do things remotely. We also discussed that, as long as you can connect to the server through the various methods, you can do your troubleshooting with PowerShell or with the remote management consoles. However, sometimes even that isn't possible and you find yourself in a situation where the server does not boot correctly or is completely stuck. Here you need to troubleshoot...