Chapter 3. Adding Hardware
BUILDING A PRODUCTION-QUALITY SERVER TAKES TIME. You can automate the installation and testing processes to a large extent, but by the time you're done prepping the RAID array, installing the operating system, partitioning and formatting the data drives, layering on the applications, setting permissions, and verifying that everything works the way your users expect, you've made your way through the better part of a morning.
Even if you take care to anticipate the future needs of the users, the time inevitably comes when you have to add new hardware or update a driver or replace a failed component. You might need a second processor to speed up a slow SQL server or an additional drive to accommodate data growth or a ...
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