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>Keeping a few racks of servers happily humming along isn't the massive undertaking that most people here seem to think it is.

It isn't until hardware failures happen, and that requires different skills to deal with effectively. Like the time a core networking switch presented with a dead PSU and no backups, so you Frankenstein it back to temporarily working with another switch to pull the config off of it.

With bare metal you may have to have more generalized, Jack of all trades staff to account for the unaccountable.



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