What It Takes to Build a Host
summary
The talk explains how physical servers are provisioned and brought into service, covering ordering, placement, and installation challenges and practical ways to mitigate them. It describes human roles inside data centers, what happens behind the first power-on and the server’s appearance in management systems, and the role of automation to perform what is necessary and sufficient in the process.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:05Badoo and apps
- 5:01New cloud host
- 10:25Hardware ordering
- 17:25Pre-delivery planning
- 21:35Hardware install
- 26:13Install automation
- 37:52Server setup
- 43:24Host deployment automation
- 46:58Process summary
- 48:32Q&A
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