On Dec 24, 2005, at 1:58 PM, Dave Schroeder wrote:
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
The ONLY things different with the dual G5 Xserve versus the dual
G5 Xserve Cluster Node are:
- No optical drive in Cluster Node
- 1 externally accessible drive bay versus 3
- Mac OS X Server 10-client versus unlimited
- $1000 difference in price
This translates into a big difference in storage. The Apple Store
says this for the cluster [...]
Yes, it only has one drive bay of its own. But the other poster's
requirements only listed one 80GB internal drive.
As for your question, the Xserve Cluster Node has the same
expansion slots and options (e.g., Fibre Channel Card, etc.) as a
normal Xserve, even though they're not explicitly offered in the
configurator; they all can still be purcahsed. So you can still
install, for example, a Fibre Channel Card and access an Xserve
RAID or other SAN. In fact, all of our Apple media servers are
Xserve Cluster Nodes for this reason.
- Dave
Thanks - I figured that, but it's not on the web site.
