From the course: Server Administration Essential Training

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Server components

Server components

- [Instructor] Now, as a server administrator, you typically won't be, at least not on a daily basis, actually having to service the insides of the servers. You're mostly responsible for administrating or running the servers. But, you should be familiar with the components that are inside the box that truly make up the server. You may be involved in the purchasing of some of these components, and you also may want to be able to just have an educated conversation with the computer technician who's working on your server. So let's take a look at some of these. First, can't really talk about anything without talking about the motherboard. And the motherboard is the main circuit board, that provides communication to all other components. This really is the heart of everything, okay? Everything flows through the motherboard. And in fact, almost all the rest of the components we're going to talk about well, can be found on this…

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