Server components
What's inside a server, what each part does, and which parts are built for redundancy.
- Level
- Beginner
- Length
- About 35 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 1 Oct 2026
Skills you'll practise
- Identify the main components in a server layout
- Explain cores, threads, sockets and ECC memory
- Compare HDD, SATA/SAS SSD and NVMe storage
- Name the components that are usually redundant and hot-swappable
Course outline
- 1.Inside a rack serverVideo · 2 min
- 2.Inside the boxLesson · 15 min
- 3.Reading hardware health from the BMCLesson · 15 min
- 4.Replacing parts safely: compatibility, firmware and ESDLesson · 15 min
- 5.Server components: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 17 questions
- 6.Server components: practical exerciseKnowledge check · 1 question
- 7.Final exam7 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- Server hardware fundamentals (vendor-neutral)
- Memory: ECC and registered DIMMs
- Storage interfaces: SATA, SAS, NVMe
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