Switching to Rack Mounted Servers

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Published on 2012-11-09T23:57:51Z Indexed on 2012/11/10 5:03 UTC
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I'm primarily used to using Computer Towers as basic servers for the company I've been administrating for a while. And we now wish to move away from that to a rack facility.

I have no idea (not the slightest clue) as to how these things work. There's just a few questions I would like to ask:

Do rack-mounter servers have OS's?
Do I configure these servers directly or from another computer?
Say for instance I wanted to incorporate a file server making use of a rack mounted server, would it need an OS?

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