knowledge-base/sources/infrastructure/sources.en.md

Infrastructure — Sources

Split into separate files:

• HYPERVISORS.en.md — hypervisors and virtualization
• DATACENTERS.en.md — data centers
• STORAGE.en.md — storage
• HARDWARE.en.md — hardware and servers

Official documentation

Source	URL	Status
VMware vSphere docs	https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/	[done]
Microsoft Hyper-V docs	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/virtualization/hyper-v/	[done]
Proxmox VE docs	https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page	[done]
OpenStack docs	https://docs.openstack.org/	[done]
Ceph docs	https://docs.ceph.com/	[done]
Redfish specification	https://www.dmtf.org/standards/redfish	[done]

Standards

Standard	Description	Status
TIA-942	Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers	[done]
Uptime Institute Tier Standard	Data Center Tier Classification	[done]
ASHRAE TC 9.9	Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments	[done]
S.M.A.R.T.	Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology	[done]

Books

Name	Author	ISBN	Status
The Data Center as a Computer (1st ed. → 4th ed. 2025)	Barroso, Hölzle, Ranganathan	978-3-031-99488-3	[done]
Storage Systems	Ganger, Gibson	978-1680837540	[done]
Virtualization Essentials	Matthew Portnoy	978-1119481513	[done]
VMware vSphere Design (2nd ed.)	Forbes Guthrie, Scott Lowe	978-1119130312	[done]
AI Data Center Network Design and Technologies (1st ed.)	Subramaniam, Styszynski, Tambakuwala	978-0-13-543628-8	[done]
Electronics Cooling: From the Chip to the Datacenter	Abraham et al.	978-0-443-47084-4	[done]
The AI Cloud Infrastructure Blueprint	Thummarakoti, Vududala, Madupati, Kaushik	978-1-041-16642-9	[done]

Server connectivity

Source	URL	Status
HPE Gen11 NIC selection guide	https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a50007643enw	[done]
Broadcom / Emulex FC HBA specs	https://www.broadcom.com/products/storage/fibre-channel-host-bus-adapters	[done]
NVIDIA Mellanox Ethernet + InfiniBand adapters	https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/networking/ethernet/	[done]
NVMe-oF specification (NVM Express Inc.)	https://nvmexpress.org/specifications/	[done]
Dell PowerEdge R760 NIC placement guide	https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-us/poweredge-r760/per760_ism_pub/	[done]

Server memory — DIMM population

Source	URL	Status
Dell PowerEdge R760 Installation & Service Manual — System Memory Guidelines	https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-al/oth-r760/per760_ism_pub/system-memory-guidelines	[done]
Dell PowerEdge R760 — General Memory Module Installation Guidelines	https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-al/oth-r760/per760_ism_pub/general-memory-module-installation-guidelines	[done]
HPE Gen11 Server Memory Population Rules (4th Gen Intel Xeon)	https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a50007437enw	[done]
HPE Gen11 Server Memory Population Rules (5th Gen Intel Xeon)	https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a50010242enw	[done]
HPE Gen11/Gen12 Server Memory Population Rules (AMD EPYC 9005)	https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a50012817enw	[done]
Single Rank vs Dual Rank vs Quad Rank vs Octa Rank Memory	https://corewavelabs.com/single-rank-vs-dual-rank-vs-quad-vs-octa-memory/	[done]

Enterprise storage

Source	URL	Status
Hitachi VSP 5000 series datasheet	https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/products/storage/vsp-5000-series	[done]
Hitachi VSP E series datasheet	https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/products/storage/vsp-e-series	[done]
Huawei OceanStor Dorado V6 datasheet	https://e.huawei.com/en/products/storage/all-flash-storage/dorado-8000	[done]
Huawei OceanStor Dorado V7 announcement	https://e.huawei.com/en/news/2025/oceanstor-dorado-v7	[done]
Dell PowerStore documentation	https://www.dell.com/en-us/dt/storage/powerstore.htm	[done]
Dell PowerMax documentation	https://www.dell.com/en-us/dt/storage/powermax.htm	[done]
HPE Alletra documentation	https://www.hpe.com/us/en/storage/alletra.html	[done]
Infinidat InfiniBox SSA G4 datasheet	https://www.infinidat.com/en/products/infinibox-ssa	[done]
Pure Storage FlashArray documentation	https://www.purestorage.com/products/flasharray.html	[done]
Lenovo ThinkSystem DM series docs	https://lenovopress.com/storage/thinkstorage/dm-series	[done]
Lenovo ThinkSystem DE series docs	https://lenovopress.com/storage/thinkstorage/de-series	[done]
Synology Unified Controller datasheet	https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/UC3400	[done]

OpenStack

Source	URL	Status
OpenStack Neutron networking docs	https://docs.openstack.org/neutron/latest/	[done]
OpenStack Cinder block storage docs	https://docs.openstack.org/cinder/latest/	[done]
OpenStack Swift object storage docs	https://docs.openstack.org/swift/latest/	[done]
OpenStack Cyborg GPU lifecycle docs	https://docs.openstack.org/cyborg/latest/	[done]
OpenStack Ironic bare metal docs	https://docs.openstack.org/ironic/latest/	[done]
TripleO deployment docs	https://docs.openstack.org/tripleo-docs/latest/	[done]
OpenStack Kolla (Kubernetes deployment) docs	https://docs.openstack.org/kolla/latest/	[done]
Canonical Charmed OpenStack docs	https://ubuntu.com/openstack/docs	[done]
OpenStack Ceilometer / Telemetry docs	https://docs.openstack.org/ceilometer/latest/	[done]
OpenStack Masakari (VM HA) docs	https://docs.openstack.org/masakari/latest/	[done]
OpenStack Cyborg (GPU lifecycle management)	https://docs.openstack.org/cyborg/latest/	[done]
OpenQA — OpenStack CI/CD	https://github.com/openstack-infra/openqa	[done]
OpenStack Charms (Juju) deployment	https://charmhub.io/openstack	[done]
OpenStack Zuul CI/CD system	https://zuul-ci.org/docs/zuul/	[done]

VMware exit strategy

Source	URL	Status
VMware Alternatives in 2026: A Practical Exit Playbook — Platform9	https://platform9.com/blog/vmware-alternatives-in-2026-a-practical-exit-playbook	[done]
VMware Exit Strategy — Intelligent Visibility	https://intelligentvisibility.com/data-center-infrastructure/vmware-exit-strategy	[done]
VMware to Proxmox Migration Guide 2026 — Petronella Tech	https://petronellatech.com/blog/vmware-to-proxmox-migration-guide	[done]
Migrating from VMware to Proxmox — Hornetsecurity	https://www.hornetsecurity.com/en/blog/migrate-vmware-to-proxmox	[done]
The Great VMware Exodus — Virtualization Howto	https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2025/07/the-great-vmware-exodus-real-migration-stories-and-alternatives-for-2025/	[done]
VMware to Hyper-V Migration 2026 — iShift	https://www.ishift.net/vmware-hyper-v-migration-2026	[done]
VMware to Nutanix Migration 2026 — Redress Compliance	https://redresscompliance.com/vmware-to-nutanix	[done]
Hyper-V Licensing 2026 — Redress Compliance	https://redresscompliance.com/hyper-v-licensing-2026	[done]
Beyond virtualization: a guide to modern vSphere alternatives — Spectro Cloud	https://www.spectrocloud.com/blog/vsphere-alternatives	[done]
VMware Migration in 2026: Proxmox, KVM, XCP-ng & Veeam — StarWind	https://starwindsoftware.com/blog/vmware-migration-to-proxmox-kvm-xcp-ng-2026	[done]
Complete guide to modern vSphere alternatives — Spectro Cloud	https://www.spectrocloud.com/blog/vsphere-alternatives	[done]
Broadcom VMware Acquisition: What's Next — Sayers	https://www.sayers.com/blog/after-the-deal-whats-next-for-vmware-customers	[done]
Stanford University migration from VMware to Proxmox	https://itcommunity.stanford.edu/news/enterprise-technology-completes-successful-virtual-infrastructure-migration-vmware-proxmox	[done]
	Sangfor
Sangfor HCI — product page	https://www.sangfor.com/cloud-and-infrastructure/products/hci-hyper-converged-infrastructure	[done]
Sangfor aSV — hypervisor	https://www.sangfor.com/cloud-and-infrastructure/products/asv-hypervisor-server-virtualization	[done]
Sangfor vs VMware — feature comparison	https://www.sangfor.com/blog/cloud-and-infrastructure/sangfor-hci-vs-vmware-feature-comparison	[done]
	AI infrastructure
NVIDIA DGX — documentation	https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/dgx-platform/	[done]
InfiniBand — Mellanox/NVIDIA	https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/networking/products/infiniband/	[done]
Lustre parallel filesystem	https://www.lustre.org/	[done]
WekaFS — AI storage	https://www.weka.io/	[done]
vLLM — inference server	https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm	[done]
Megatron-LM — distributed training	https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM	[done]
	Kubernetes / Cluster API
Cluster API (CAPI) — official documentation (The CAPI Book)	https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/	[done]
Cluster API — GitHub (kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api)	https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api	[done]
Cluster API — provider list	https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/reference/providers.html	[done]
Kubernetes — official documentation	https://kubernetes.io/docs/	[done]
K3s — lightweight Kubernetes	https://k3s.io/	[done]
RKE2 — Rancher Kubernetes Engine 2	https://docs.rke2.io/	[done]
Talos — API-driven Kubernetes OS	https://www.talos.dev/	[done]
Kamaji — hosted control plane provider	https://kamaji.clastix.io/	[done]
Metal3 — bare metal provider for CAPI	https://metal3.io/	[done]
Cluster API — ClusterClass and topologies	https://kubernetes.io/blog/2021/10/08/capi-clusterclass-and-managed-topologies/	[done]
	Big Data
Apache Spark — official documentation	https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/	[done]
Apache Flink — official documentation	https://flink.apache.org/	[done]
Trino — distributed SQL engine	https://trino.io/docs/current/	[done]
Apache Iceberg — table format	https://iceberg.apache.org/	[done]
Delta Lake — documentation	https://docs.delta.io/	[done]
Apache Hudi	https://hudi.apache.org/	[done]
Apache Paimon	https://paimon.apache.org/	[done]
Apache Hadoop — documentation	https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/	[done]
Apache Airflow — documentation	https://airflow.apache.org/docs/	[done]
Dagster — documentation	https://docs.dagster.io/	[done]
Prefect — documentation	https://docs.prefect.io/	[done]
HDFS architecture (Apache)	https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-hdfs/HdfsDesign.html	[done]
	Operating Systems
Ubuntu lifecycle — Ubuntu Pro + ESM	https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle	[done]
RHEL lifecycle — Red Hat Enterprise Linux	https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata	[done]
Rocky Linux lifecycle	https://rockylinux.org/download/	[done]
AlmaLinux lifecycle	https://almalinux.org/	[done]
Debian releases / LTS	https://wiki.debian.org/LTS	[done]
SLES lifecycle — SUSE	https://www.suse.com/lifecycle/	[done]
Alpine Linux releases	https://alpinelinux.org/releases/	[done]
Fedora lifecycle	https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/lifecycle/	[done]
SELinux — Red Hat docs	https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/linux/what-is-selinux	[done]
AppArmor — Ubuntu wiki	https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppArmor	[done]
	Windows
Windows Server lifecycle	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-server-2022/	[done]
Windows Server 2025 lifecycle	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-server-2025/	[done]
Windows 11 lifecycle	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-11-enterprise/	[done]
Windows 10 EOL	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-10-enterprise/	[done]
Windows Server licensing (per core)	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/editions-and-support	[done]
	GPU pricing
NVIDIA AI GPU pricing guide (2026)	https://intuitionlabs.ai/articles/nvidia-ai-gpu-pricing-guide	[done]
GPU cloud pricing comparison (2026)	https://www.spheron.network/blog/gpu-cloud-pricing-comparison-2026/	[done]
GPU pricing trends 2026 — CompuX	https://compux.net/docs/guides/gpu-pricing-trends-2026	[done]
AMD MI300X pricing (2026)	https://www.thundercompute.com/blog/amd-mi300x-pricing	[done]
GPU price/performance frontier — Silicon Analysts	https://siliconanalysts.com/tools/frontier	[done]

Hardware manufacturers

Manufacturer	Server series	Management
Dell	PowerEdge (R6xx, R7xx)	iDRAC / OpenManage
HPE	ProLiant (DL, ML, Synergy)	iLO / OneView
Cisco	UCS (B-Series, C-Series)	UCS Manager / Intersight
Lenovo	ThinkSystem (SR, ST)	XClarity
Supermicro	SuperServer (cloud, storage, GPU)	IPMI / SuperDoctor