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+====== Dedicated Media Server Provisioning (The Brawn) ======
+This bare-metal host serves as the primary compute and transcoding engine. Running a bare-metal Linux distribution guarantees that the Plex and Unmanic runtime environments retain native, low-latency access to hardware kernel modules and raw GPU execution pipelines without hypervisor abstraction.
+===== 1. Operating System Deployment & Partitioning =====
+During the initial Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS installation wizard, bypass automated disk layouts and partition your high-speed solid-state drives manually:
+  - **/dev/nvme0n1 (256GB PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD):** Allocate the entire disk to the root mount point (''/'') to host operating system files, system binaries, and localized application logging pools.
+  - **/dev/nvme1n1 (1TB PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSD):** Format this drive as an independent ext4 or XFS volume. Mount it explicitly to ''/mnt/plex_cache''.
+  - //Rationale: This isolates volatile write operations generated by Unmanic and Plex Transcoder Cache from your primary operating system storage array, protecting the OS drive from premature write endurance wear.//
+===== 2. Hardware Acceleration (GPU) Pre-Requisites =====
+To ensure your hardware-accelerated transcoding engine utilizes your discrete NVIDIA graphics processor, deploy the proprietary, headless kernel-level modules immediately following the first boot:
+<file bash>
+sudo apt update && sudo apt install --no-install-recommends nvidia-driver-535-server nvidia-utils-535-server -y
+</file>
+===== 3. Network Interface Layer Configuration =====
+Modify your Netplan configuration file to map your dual physical network adapters explicitly. Ensure that your storage network card remains entirely locked out of inter-VLAN routing tables.
+Open ''/etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml'' (or your default YAML configuration) and apply the following profile:
+<file yaml /etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml>
+network:
+  version: 2
+  renderer: networkd
+  ethernets:
+    enp3s0: # NIC 1 (VLAN 20 Public DMZ Ingress)
+      dhcp4: no
+      addresses:
+        - 10.0.20.50/24
+      nameservers:
+        addresses: [1.1.1.1, 1.0.0.1]
+      routes:
+        - to: default
+          via: 10.0.20.1
+    enp4s0: # NIC 2 (VLAN 50 Storage Backplane)
+      dhcp4: no
+      addresses:
+        - 10.0.50.50/24
+      # CRITICAL: No default gateway or DNS is specified on this link
+</file>
+Apply the configuration cleanly:
+<code>sudo netplan apply</code>