April 2017
Beginner
404 pages
9h 30m
English
Provisioning a new server operating system takes about 3-4 minutes even on a cloud provider like Azure. Nano Server boots in just five seconds on a high-end host, we can setup a cluster in couple of minutes, how great is that. The following table shows a comparison on number of reboots, open ports and VHD Size for different versions of operating systems, clearly Nano Server Stands out:
| Windows Server 2016 | Nano Server | Windows Server Core | Full GUI Server |
| Reboots | 3 | 6 | 11 |
| Patches | 2 | 8 | 23 |
| Ports | 11 | 26 | 34 |
| VHD size | 440 MB | 6.5 GB | 10.4 GB |
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