“Dell EMC PowerEdge 13G Servers support Microsoft Nano Server, however, Nano Server is not included with the Windows Server 2016 OEM image. The latest complementary evaluation copy of Nano Server can be obtained from Microsoft Evaluation Center page (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter) or through active volume license agreement. The use of NanoServer in production environment and to obtain regular updates, Microsoft requires Software Assurance Agreement. ” The TPM2.0 is required to take a full advantage of the Assurance features in Windows Server 2016. Dell EMC servers do not have a TPM module by default. Dell EMC strongly recommends that you purchase and configure your server with TPM 2.0 and UEFI partition options
iDRAC Service Module is a lightweight service that supplements iDRAC monitoring and configuration with information available from the server’s operating system (OS). You can also access a limited version of the iSM interface from the OS. By having iSM pre-installed, you will be able to quickly access critical logs and support information should you need to contact Dell Support.
“Customers who choose to enable Hyper-V role on their server, will receive a pre-deployed virtual hard disk(.vhd / .vhdx) file copied on their hard drive as a default. This virtual hard disk has the same operating system edition installed as selected by the customers for their servers. Also, this virtual hard disk, being multilingual, provides an option to customers for choosing their desired language during the login to the virtual machine.”
