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Deploying and Managing a Nano Server
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The following PowerShell command creates a virtual disk with both mirror and
parity resiliency on the storage pool:
New-Volume -StoragePoolFriendlyName "S2D*" -FriendlyName
<VirtualDiskName> -FileSystem CSVFS_ReFS -StorageTierfriendlyNames
Capacity,Performance -StorageTierSizes <Size of capacity tier in
size units, example: 800GB>, <Size of Performance tier in size
units, example: 80GB> -CimSession <ClusterName>
Step 7. Creating or Deploying Virtual Machines
You can provision the virtual machines onto the nodes of the hyper-converged
S2D cluster. Store the virtual machine’s files on the system’s CSV namespace (for
example,
c:\ClusterStorage\Volume1
), similar to clustered virtual
machines on failover clusters.
Deploying and Managing a Nano Server
Windows Server 2016 offers Nano Server as a new installation option. Nano
Server is a remotely administered server operating system optimized for private
clouds and data centers. It is similar to Windows Server in Server Core mode, but
is significantly smaller, has no local logon capability, and supports only 64-bit
applications, tools, and agents. The Nano Server takes less disk space, sets up
faster, and requires fewer updates and restarts than Windows Server. When it
does restart, it restarts much faster.
Roles and Features
shows the roles and features that are available in this release of Nano
Server, along with the Windows PowerShell options that will install the packages
for them. Some packages are installed directly with their own Windows
PowerShell options (such as
-Compute
). Others are installed as extensions to
the
-Packages
option, which you can combine in a comma-separated list.
Table 12-1. Roles and Features of Nano Server
Role or Feature
Options
Hyper-V role
-Compute
Failover Clustering
-Clustering
Hyper-V guest drivers for hosting the Nano Server
as a virtual machine
-GuestDrivers
Basic drivers for a variety of network adapters and
storage controllers. This is the same set of drivers
included in a Server Core installation of Windows
Server 2016 Technical Preview.
-OEMDrivers
