Hardware 101

Hardware Types

Rackmount

Blades

SANs

Basic server architecture

CPU

RAM

Motherboard

Bus

Disk controllers

Network devices

BIOS/UEFI

PCI-E Cards

Disk management

Arrays

RAID/ZFS

Logical Volume Management

Performance/Redundancy

RAID/ZFS

Power

Electrical overview

110v/220v, amperage, 3 phase power

UPS

common plug types

common circuit types

Troubleshooting

Remote management (IPMI, iLO, DRAC, etc)

Common MCE log errors

System burn-in