Nano Server is a remotely administrated server operating system, optimized for private clouds and local or remote datacenters. Nano Server is similar to the Windows Server core mode operating system. It doesn't have any GUI interface, and it is smaller than Windows Server's core mode.

Nano Server has no local login capability. It only supports 64-bit applications, tools, and agents.

Nano Server takes up very less disk space, is installed quickly, needs fewer updates and less time to restart than Windows Server.

Nano Server can be used as a:

• Hyper-V virtual machine with or without clusters
• File server
• DNS server
• Internet Information Services (IIS) server

It can also be used to run cloud application patterns or run in a container or as a VM guest operating system.

You can install Nano Server on a physical host (server) or as a virtual server. Nano Server installation can be installed on the Standard and Datacenter editions of Windows Server 2016.

In this chapter, will use IIS 10.0 on Nano Server.