🖥️ Server Infrastructure
Hardware, hypervisors, storage — the physical and virtual substrate under Linux, Cloud, and Containers. Where bits actually live and where compute actually runs.
The stack
┌─────────────────────────────────┐
│ Containers / Cloud services │ ← [[📦 Containers MOC]] [[☁️ Cloud MOC]]
├─────────────────────────────────┤
│ OS (Linux, Windows) │ ← [[🐧 Linux MOC]]
├─────────────────────────────────┤
│ Hypervisor (VMware, KVM, ...) │ ← THIS MOC — Virtualization
├─────────────────────────────────┤
│ Hardware (CPU, RAM, NIC, HBA) │ ← THIS MOC — Hardware
├─────────────────────────────────┤
│ Storage array / SAN / NAS │ ← THIS MOC — Storage
└─────────────────────────────────┘
Virtualization
- Type 1 vs Type 2 Hypervisors
- VMware ESXi / vSphere (todo)
- Microsoft Hyper-V (todo)
- KVM / QEMU / libvirt (todo)
- Proxmox VE (todo)
- vMotion / Live Migration (todo)
- HA / DRS / clustering (todo)
- Paravirtualization vs full virtualization (todo)
- Container vs VM comparison (todo)
Storage
- RAID Levels
- SAN vs NAS
- Fibre Channel / iSCSI (todo)
- NFS / SMB (todo)
- Block vs File vs Object storage (todo)
- ZFS fundamentals (todo)
- LUNs and storage provisioning (todo)
- Multipathing (todo)
Hardware & compute
- CPU fundamentals (cores, threads, NUMA) (todo)
- ECC RAM (todo)
- BMC / IPMI / iDRAC / iLO (todo)
- PCIe (todo)
- HBAs and NICs (todo)
Backup & DR
- Backup Fundamentals — RPO and RTO
- 3-2-1 backup rule (todo)
- Full / Incremental / Differential (todo)
- Snapshots vs backups (todo)
- Replication (todo)
All Server Infrastructure notes
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