Book 4

Bare Metal Servers

Physical hardware, RAID, IPMI, and dedicated infrastructure

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What bare metal means, how servers are built, provisioned, and maintained in Canadian data centres.

  • 8 chapters
  • ~3 hours
  • Hands-on exercises in every chapter
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Table of Contents

Chapters

Read in order the first time — later chapters reference the lab company introduced in Chapter 1.

  1. 01 Welcome to Book 4 Bare metal vs virtual — when physical hardware wins. 8 min
  2. 02 Server Anatomy CPU, RAM, NICs, PSU redundancy, form factors. 25 min
  3. 03 Storage & RAID SSD/HDD, RAID 1/5/10, backups vs redundancy. 30 min
  4. 04 IPMI & Out-of-Band Access Remote power, console, when the OS is dead. 22 min
  5. 05 Provisioning Linux ISO, kickstart, partitioning, first boot checklist. 28 min
  6. 06 Dedicated vs VPS vs Shared Noisy neighbour, hypervisor overhead, compliance. 22 min
  7. 07 Lifecycle, SLAs & RMA Hardware failure, parts, maintenance windows. 20 min
  8. 08 Capstone: Spec a Server for Workshop Co. Right-size CPU/RAM/disk for their booking app. 35 min