On May 9, 2008, at 10:55 AM, Josh Wisenbaker wrote:
Outside of test, dev, and QA environments I don't see a lot of
market actually. Mac OS X Server scales well enough to fully utilize
a box. At that point splitting it isn't the solution, adding more
hardware is.
One of the tests that I'm doing is whether MOSX server VMs might be
something we could offer to university departments who may, due to
costs, be choosing to run their own server (minus the professional
administration from IT central services, which costs considerably). We
are exploring offering a MOSXS VM to a department, where we manage the
host Xserve, house it in our climate controlled, secure space, but
give their department full access to their VM. We could optionally
provide admin/monitoring services for a reduced rate since we don't
have to make cross-campus trips to their location. They don't have to
buy new hardware or energy. For central services wishing to provide
this service, deployment could be rapid, since a prefab/preconfigured
VM may already be at hand. And it's space saving, which is important
(at least on this campus). We're thinking this might be ideal for
departments that have, say, under 15 concurrent users who are mainly
interested in AFP and possibly SMB and Web, but little more. It would
be much cheaper for them to buy a VM.
Noah
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Noah Abrahamson
Stanford University
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