🖥️ 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


All Server Infrastructure notes

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