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Books & training for Building Servers?

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by peralot

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I'm fairly new to the field (just graduated from a local college and got my A+ at the same time. However, the amount of information covered about the details of building servers (file, print, DNS, etc) were somewhat vague, as the Associate's I did centered more on Tech Support & Helpdesk. I want to start learning more about building & maintaining servers, but I'm not sure where to start. Any recommendations for books/CD's/possible courses?

Thanks in advance.

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by peralot

Thanks to both respondents- I certainly will be using the info they provided.

by wanabedrsean

The server plus is a good place to start but good servers are are like good cars you dont really put them toghether from scratch you buy them from tier one venders, compaq, hp, dell,ibm and then configure them to meet your needs eg raid controllers and and storge space, depending on the pourpouse of the server. The role of the server will be changing over the next few years to that of mearly an appliance built to provide a full souloution for whatever role it has been purchased to meet. As far as training compaq used to have the best training in the busness on servers however that may be in doubt now since hp bought them. Though compaqs training may be more product specific they include alot of architectural and management training so thata compaq engineer could go talk the most knowlegeable person in the world about servers and hold his own.

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