7 terms
Bare metal is a physical server whose hardware runs one operating system directly, without a virtualization layer, giving full and predictable performance.
A blade server is a thin, modular server that slides into a shared chassis supplying power, cooling, networking and management to many blades.
A dedicated server is a physical machine rented or owned by a single customer, whose CPU, memory, storage and network are not shared with other tenants.
A rack server is a server built in a standard 19-inch chassis measured in rack units, designed for dense mounting in data center and server room…
A server is a computer or program that provides services, data or resources to client devices over a network, usually running continuously and unattended.
Server provisioning is the process of preparing a server with hardware or virtual resources, an operating system, network settings and software for its role.
A VPS, or virtual private server, is a virtual machine on shared physical hardware that gives its user an isolated operating system with root access.