This is a basic primer on Domain Names such as “smbservers.co.nz” and how to use them over the internet. AKA using your domain for email ([email protected]) or forwarding them to your website. Not to be confused with using Domains (AAD or LDAP) within an intranet to manage systems (eg “Attaching Read more…
Out of Band Management is probably a term you’ll only ever hear from a server seller, if you’re not familiar with the term, you’ll probably know it as HPE ILO, Oracle ILOM, Cisco IMC, Dell iDRAC, Lenovo/IBM IMM etc. Every server stocked by SMB Servers, (at least at the time Read more…
If you’re relatively new to servers and/or coming from a home built server you may have heard the term virtualisation before but never had a need or the core count to test it out. At SMB Servers, we try to only offer the higher end models of our range so Read more…
This is just a quick primer on the primary internal SAS cables you’ll find when buying used servers of the Xeon E5 series and later. I’m going to skip the less common cable connectors like SFF-8482 which is more often seen on SAS Controllers used in personal compute environments. The Read more…
This is just a basic primer on server storage intended to get you up to speed on what technologies exist, how and when they’re seen in servers, and for you to make not only an informed decision on the hardware that you want/need but also so that you know how Read more…