This presentation, delivered by Travis Hankins, Greystone's VP of Technology, provides an introduction to the features and benefits of the Windows Server 2016 operating system. Items of focus includes: • Licensing • Nano Server • Containers/Docker • Hands on Labs • Active Directory Recovery Feature • Deploying a Container

1. Windows 2016

2. Agenda
• Licensing
• Nano Server
• Containers/Docker
• Hands on Labs
• Active Directory Recovery Feature
• Deploy a Container
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3. L
Windows 2016
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4. Windows 2016 - What edition for my client
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5. Windows 2016 Features
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6. Windows 2016 Licensing
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7. Damn you Microsoft
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8. Processors, Cores & Liceses Oh My!
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Windows Server 2016 Standard and Datacenter
Licensed server A B C D E F
Physical processors 1-proc. 1-proc. 2-proc. 2-proc. 4-proc. 4-proc.
Physical cores per physical processor 4 20 4 10 4 10
Total physical cores 4 20 8 20 16 40
VL Core licenses 16 20 16 20 32 40
VL 2-pack core licenses 8 10 8 10 16 20

9. Resource Management - Geeky Stuff
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10. Nano Server
Zero-footprint model
• Server Roles and Optional Features live outside
of Nano Server
• Standalone packages that install like applications
Key Roles & Features
• Hyper-V, Storage (SoFS), Clustering, IIS, and DNS Server
• .NET Core and ASP.NET Core
Full Windows Server driver support
Antimalware optional package
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Nano Server
Just enough
OS
Containers and
next-gen
applications
Full GUI
Specialized
workloads
Third-party
applications
RDS
experience
Server Core
Lower maintenance
server environment
Traditional VM
workloads
Nano Server
Just enough OS

11. Nano Server Deployment
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• Deep refactoring
• Client stack for RDS
• Developers target Nano Server
• Deploy to Physical, Virtual or
Containers
Physical, Virtual, Containers
Nano Server
Server Core
Client
(aka Server w/a Desktop Exp)
(Aka Full Server)
Local Admin
Tools
DHCP Server

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15
23
30
23
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Nano Server Server Core
Full Server
Nano Server vs Traditional Servers
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13
20
26
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Nano Server Server Core
Full Server
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6
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11
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Nano Server Server Core
Full Server

13. Windows 2016 - Containers
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Benefits of Containers
• Further acceleration of app
deployment
• Reduce effort to deploy apps
• Streamline development and
testing
• Lower costs associated with
app deployment
• Increase server consolidation