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# Infrastructure — Sources
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- [HYPERVISORS.en.md](../../HYPERVISORS.en.md) — hypervisors and virtualization
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- [DATACENTERS.en.md](../../DATACENTERS.en.md) — data centers
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- [STORAGE.en.md](../../STORAGE.en.md) — storage
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- [HARDWARE.en.md](../../HARDWARE.en.md) — hardware and servers
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## Official documentation
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| Source | URL | Status |
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| VMware vSphere docs | https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/ | `[done]` |
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| Microsoft Hyper-V docs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/virtualization/hyper-v/ | `[done]` |
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| Proxmox VE docs | https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page | `[done]` |
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| OpenStack docs | https://docs.openstack.org/ | `[done]` |
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| Ceph docs | https://docs.ceph.com/ | `[done]` |
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| Redfish specification | https://www.dmtf.org/standards/redfish | `[done]` |
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## Standards
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| Standard | Description | Status |
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| TIA-942 | Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers | `[done]` |
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| Uptime Institute Tier Standard | Data Center Tier Classification | `[done]` |
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| ASHRAE TC 9.9 | Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments | `[done]` |
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| S.M.A.R.T. | Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology | `[done]` |
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## Books
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| Name | Author | ISBN | Status |
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| The Data Center as a Computer (1st ed. → 4th ed. 2025) | Barroso, Hölzle, Ranganathan | 978-3-031-99488-3 | `[done]` |
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| Storage Systems | Ganger, Gibson | 978-1680837540 | `[done]` |
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| Virtualization Essentials | Matthew Portnoy | 978-1119481513 | `[done]` |
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| VMware vSphere Design (2nd ed.) | Forbes Guthrie, Scott Lowe | 978-1119130312 | `[done]` |
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| AI Data Center Network Design and Technologies (1st ed.) | Subramaniam, Styszynski, Tambakuwala | 978-0-13-543628-8 | `[done]` |
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| Electronics Cooling: From the Chip to the Datacenter | Abraham et al. | 978-0-443-47084-4 | `[done]` |
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| The AI Cloud Infrastructure Blueprint | Thummarakoti, Vududala, Madupati, Kaushik | 978-1-041-16642-9 | `[done]` |
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## Server connectivity
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| Source | URL | Status |
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| HPE Gen11 NIC selection guide | https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a50007643enw | `[done]` |
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| Broadcom / Emulex FC HBA specs | https://www.broadcom.com/products/storage/fibre-channel-host-bus-adapters | `[done]` |
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| NVIDIA Mellanox Ethernet + InfiniBand adapters | https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/networking/ethernet/ | `[done]` |
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| NVMe-oF specification (NVM Express Inc.) | https://nvmexpress.org/specifications/ | `[done]` |
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| Dell PowerEdge R760 NIC placement guide | https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-us/poweredge-r760/per760_ism_pub/ | `[done]` |
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## Server memory — DIMM population
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| Source | URL | Status |
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| 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]` |
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| 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]` |
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| HPE Gen11 Server Memory Population Rules (4th Gen Intel Xeon) | https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a50007437enw | `[done]` |
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| HPE Gen11 Server Memory Population Rules (5th Gen Intel Xeon) | https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a50010242enw | `[done]` |
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| HPE Gen11/Gen12 Server Memory Population Rules (AMD EPYC 9005) | https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a50012817enw | `[done]` |
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| 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]` |
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## Enterprise storage
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| Hitachi VSP 5000 series datasheet | https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/products/storage/vsp-5000-series | `[done]` |
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| Hitachi VSP E series datasheet | https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/products/storage/vsp-e-series | `[done]` |
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| Huawei OceanStor Dorado V6 datasheet | https://e.huawei.com/en/products/storage/all-flash-storage/dorado-8000 | `[done]` |
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| Huawei OceanStor Dorado V7 announcement | https://e.huawei.com/en/news/2025/oceanstor-dorado-v7 | `[done]` |
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| Dell PowerStore documentation | https://www.dell.com/en-us/dt/storage/powerstore.htm | `[done]` |
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| Dell PowerMax documentation | https://www.dell.com/en-us/dt/storage/powermax.htm | `[done]` |
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| HPE Alletra documentation | https://www.hpe.com/us/en/storage/alletra.html | `[done]` |
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| Infinidat InfiniBox SSA G4 datasheet | https://www.infinidat.com/en/products/infinibox-ssa | `[done]` |
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| Pure Storage FlashArray documentation | https://www.purestorage.com/products/flasharray.html | `[done]` |
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| Lenovo ThinkSystem DM series docs | https://lenovopress.com/storage/thinkstorage/dm-series | `[done]` |
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| Lenovo ThinkSystem DE series docs | https://lenovopress.com/storage/thinkstorage/de-series | `[done]` |
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| Synology Unified Controller datasheet | https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/UC3400 | `[done]` |
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## OpenStack
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| OpenStack Neutron networking docs | https://docs.openstack.org/neutron/latest/ | `[done]` |
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| OpenStack Cinder block storage docs | https://docs.openstack.org/cinder/latest/ | `[done]` |
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| OpenStack Swift object storage docs | https://docs.openstack.org/swift/latest/ | `[done]` |
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| OpenStack Cyborg GPU lifecycle docs | https://docs.openstack.org/cyborg/latest/ | `[done]` |
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| OpenStack Ironic bare metal docs | https://docs.openstack.org/ironic/latest/ | `[done]` |
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| TripleO deployment docs | https://docs.openstack.org/tripleo-docs/latest/ | `[done]` |
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| OpenStack Kolla (Kubernetes deployment) docs | https://docs.openstack.org/kolla/latest/ | `[done]` |
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| Canonical Charmed OpenStack docs | https://ubuntu.com/openstack/docs | `[done]` |
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| OpenStack Ceilometer / Telemetry docs | https://docs.openstack.org/ceilometer/latest/ | `[done]` |
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| OpenStack Masakari (VM HA) docs | https://docs.openstack.org/masakari/latest/ | `[done]` |
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| OpenStack Cyborg (GPU lifecycle management) | https://docs.openstack.org/cyborg/latest/ | `[done]` |
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| OpenQA — OpenStack CI/CD | https://github.com/openstack-infra/openqa | `[done]` |
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| OpenStack Charms (Juju) deployment | https://charmhub.io/openstack | `[done]` |
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| OpenStack Zuul CI/CD system | https://zuul-ci.org/docs/zuul/ | `[done]` |
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## VMware exit strategy
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| VMware Alternatives in 2026: A Practical Exit Playbook — Platform9 | https://platform9.com/blog/vmware-alternatives-in-2026-a-practical-exit-playbook | `[done]` |
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| VMware Exit Strategy — Intelligent Visibility | https://intelligentvisibility.com/data-center-infrastructure/vmware-exit-strategy | `[done]` |
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| VMware to Proxmox Migration Guide 2026 — Petronella Tech | https://petronellatech.com/blog/vmware-to-proxmox-migration-guide | `[done]` |
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| Migrating from VMware to Proxmox — Hornetsecurity | https://www.hornetsecurity.com/en/blog/migrate-vmware-to-proxmox | `[done]` |
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| The Great VMware Exodus — Virtualization Howto | https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2025/07/the-great-vmware-exodus-real-migration-stories-and-alternatives-for-2025/ | `[done]` |
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| VMware to Hyper-V Migration 2026 — iShift | https://www.ishift.net/vmware-hyper-v-migration-2026 | `[done]` |
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| VMware to Nutanix Migration 2026 — Redress Compliance | https://redresscompliance.com/vmware-to-nutanix | `[done]` |
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| Hyper-V Licensing 2026 — Redress Compliance | https://redresscompliance.com/hyper-v-licensing-2026 | `[done]` |
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| Beyond virtualization: a guide to modern vSphere alternatives — Spectro Cloud | https://www.spectrocloud.com/blog/vsphere-alternatives | `[done]` |
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| VMware Migration in 2026: Proxmox, KVM, XCP-ng & Veeam — StarWind | https://starwindsoftware.com/blog/vmware-migration-to-proxmox-kvm-xcp-ng-2026 | `[done]` |
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| Complete guide to modern vSphere alternatives — Spectro Cloud | https://www.spectrocloud.com/blog/vsphere-alternatives | `[done]` |
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| Broadcom VMware Acquisition: What's Next — Sayers | https://www.sayers.com/blog/after-the-deal-whats-next-for-vmware-customers | `[done]` |
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| Stanford University migration from VMware to Proxmox | https://itcommunity.stanford.edu/news/enterprise-technology-completes-successful-virtual-infrastructure-migration-vmware-proxmox | `[done]` |
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| | **Sangfor** | |
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| Sangfor HCI — product page | https://www.sangfor.com/cloud-and-infrastructure/products/hci-hyper-converged-infrastructure | `[done]` |
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| Sangfor aSV — hypervisor | https://www.sangfor.com/cloud-and-infrastructure/products/asv-hypervisor-server-virtualization | `[done]` |
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| Sangfor vs VMware — feature comparison | https://www.sangfor.com/blog/cloud-and-infrastructure/sangfor-hci-vs-vmware-feature-comparison | `[done]` |
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| | **AI infrastructure** | |
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| NVIDIA DGX — documentation | https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/dgx-platform/ | `[done]` |
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| InfiniBand — Mellanox/NVIDIA | https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/networking/products/infiniband/ | `[done]` |
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| Lustre parallel filesystem | https://www.lustre.org/ | `[done]` |
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| WekaFS — AI storage | https://www.weka.io/ | `[done]` |
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| vLLM — inference server | https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm | `[done]` |
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| Megatron-LM — distributed training | https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM | `[done]` |
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| | **Kubernetes / Cluster API** | |
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| Cluster API (CAPI) — official documentation (The CAPI Book) | https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/ | `[done]` |
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| Cluster API — GitHub (kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api) | https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api | `[done]` |
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| Cluster API — provider list | https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/reference/providers.html | `[done]` |
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| Kubernetes — official documentation | https://kubernetes.io/docs/ | `[done]` |
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| K3s — lightweight Kubernetes | https://k3s.io/ | `[done]` |
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| RKE2 — Rancher Kubernetes Engine 2 | https://docs.rke2.io/ | `[done]` |
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| Talos — API-driven Kubernetes OS | https://www.talos.dev/ | `[done]` |
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| Kamaji — hosted control plane provider | https://kamaji.clastix.io/ | `[done]` |
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| Metal3 — bare metal provider for CAPI | https://metal3.io/ | `[done]` |
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| Cluster API — ClusterClass and topologies | https://kubernetes.io/blog/2021/10/08/capi-clusterclass-and-managed-topologies/ | `[done]` |
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| | **Big Data** | |
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| Apache Spark — official documentation | https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/ | `[done]` |
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| Apache Flink — official documentation | https://flink.apache.org/ | `[done]` |
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| Trino — distributed SQL engine | https://trino.io/docs/current/ | `[done]` |
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| Apache Iceberg — table format | https://iceberg.apache.org/ | `[done]` |
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| Delta Lake — documentation | https://docs.delta.io/ | `[done]` |
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| Apache Hudi | https://hudi.apache.org/ | `[done]` |
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| Apache Paimon | https://paimon.apache.org/ | `[done]` |
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| Apache Hadoop — documentation | https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/ | `[done]` |
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| Apache Airflow — documentation | https://airflow.apache.org/docs/ | `[done]` |
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| Dagster — documentation | https://docs.dagster.io/ | `[done]` |
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| Prefect — documentation | https://docs.prefect.io/ | `[done]` |
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| HDFS architecture (Apache) | https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-hdfs/HdfsDesign.html | `[done]` |
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| | **Operating Systems** | |
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| Ubuntu lifecycle — Ubuntu Pro + ESM | https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle | `[done]` |
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| RHEL lifecycle — Red Hat Enterprise Linux | https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata | `[done]` |
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| Rocky Linux lifecycle | https://rockylinux.org/download/ | `[done]` |
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| AlmaLinux lifecycle | https://almalinux.org/ | `[done]` |
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| Debian releases / LTS | https://wiki.debian.org/LTS | `[done]` |
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| SLES lifecycle — SUSE | https://www.suse.com/lifecycle/ | `[done]` |
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| Alpine Linux releases | https://alpinelinux.org/releases/ | `[done]` |
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| Fedora lifecycle | https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/lifecycle/ | `[done]` |
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| SELinux — Red Hat docs | https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/linux/what-is-selinux | `[done]` |
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| AppArmor — Ubuntu wiki | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppArmor | `[done]` |
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| Windows Server lifecycle | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-server-2022/ | `[done]` |
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| Windows Server 2025 lifecycle | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-server-2025/ | `[done]` |
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| Windows 11 lifecycle | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-11-enterprise/ | `[done]` |
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| Windows 10 EOL | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-10-enterprise/ | `[done]` |
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| Windows Server licensing (per core) | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/editions-and-support | `[done]` |
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| | **GPU pricing** | |
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| NVIDIA AI GPU pricing guide (2026) | https://intuitionlabs.ai/articles/nvidia-ai-gpu-pricing-guide | `[done]` |
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| GPU cloud pricing comparison (2026) | https://www.spheron.network/blog/gpu-cloud-pricing-comparison-2026/ | `[done]` |
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| GPU pricing trends 2026 — CompuX | https://compux.net/docs/guides/gpu-pricing-trends-2026 | `[done]` |
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| AMD MI300X pricing (2026) | https://www.thundercompute.com/blog/amd-mi300x-pricing | `[done]` |
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| GPU price/performance frontier — Silicon Analysts | https://siliconanalysts.com/tools/frontier | `[done]` |
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## Hardware manufacturers
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| Manufacturer | Server series | Management |
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| Dell | PowerEdge (R6xx, R7xx) | iDRAC / OpenManage |
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| HPE | ProLiant (DL, ML, Synergy) | iLO / OneView |
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| Cisco | UCS (B-Series, C-Series) | UCS Manager / Intersight |
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| Lenovo | ThinkSystem (SR, ST) | XClarity |
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| Supermicro | SuperServer (cloud, storage, GPU) | IPMI / SuperDoctor |
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