Deploying Nano Server with system center virtual machine manager 2016

If you are familiar with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) deployment methods, Nano Server deployment is mainly the same compared to Server with Desktop Experience and Server Core. The user experience with Nano Server using the SCVMM console is completely the same, except for bare-metal (physical machine) and server-based VM domain join deployment. The virtual hard disk VHD(X) you want to use for the physical computer profiles will be a Nano Server VHD(X) including SCVMM packages.

In this section, we will cover how to deploy Nano Server as a Hyper-V host in VMM using bare-metal deployment, and we will also cover how to deploy domain-join Nano Server as a virtual machine using VM templates.

VMM bare-metal deployment

The procedures in this section describe how to use VMM to discover physical computers on the network, automatically install Nano Server, and provision the computers into managed Hyper-V hosts or host...