IT-SA01

SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION AND MAINTENANCE

Racquel L. Pula, MSIT

TOPIC 4: Foundation Elements of
Systems Administration (SERVER
MANAGEMENT)
 Features of Server
1. EXTENSIBILITY
2. MORE CPU PERFORMANCE
3. HIGH PERFORMANCE I/O or INPUT/OUTPUT
Another features:
4. UPGRADE OPTIONS
5. RACK MOUNTABLE
6. NO SIDE ACCESS NEEDS
7. A HIGH ABILITY OPTIONS
8. MAINTENANCE CONTRACTS
9. MANAGEMENT OPTIONS
 Features of Server
1. EXTENSIBILITY - Servers
already have either more physical
space inside for hard drives and
more slots for cards and CPU’s, or
are engineered with the high
through put connectors that enable
use of special peripherals.
 Features of Server
2. MORE CPU PERFORMANCE
- Servers often have multiple
CPUs, or you might refer CPU as
your processor. The advanced
hardware features such as pre-
fetch, multi-stage processor
checking and the ability to
dramatically allocate resources
among CPUs.
 Features of Server
3. HIGH-PERFORMANCE INPUT/OUTPUT - Servers just really do more input
output then clients. The quality of input output is often proportional to the number of
clients. So which justify faster I/O subsystem.
 Features of Server
4. UPGRADE OPTIONS – Server are often upgraded, rather than simply
replace. They are designed for growth.
 Features of Server
5. RACK MOUNTABLE - Server should be rack mountable. Server should be rack mountable.
A server should be rectangular and designed for efficient space utilization in rack. More
important that need to serve or should be engineered for cooling and ventilation in a rack
mounted setting.
 Features of Server
6. NO SIDE ACCESS NEEDS - a
rack mounted the host is easier to
repair or perform maintenance on
if task can be done while it remains
on the rack.
 Features of Server
7. HIGH-AVAILABILITY OPTIONS. Many servers include various
high availability options, such as dual power supplies, raid, multiple
network connections and hot-swap components.
 Features of Server
8. MAINTENANCE CONTRACTS - vendors have server hardware service
contracts that generally include guaranteed turnaround time on replacement
parts.
 Features of Server
9. MANAGEMENT OPTIONS -
Ideally servers should have some
capability of are for remote
management such as serial port
access, that can be used to diagnose
and fix problems to restore a
machine that is down to active
service.
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Thank you very much!