I read about this during lunch on Friday and was a bit surprised.
Thought for a second that it might have been some sort of Friday joke.
Is there any chance that the Xserve line is getting retired for a better
rack-mounted Apple server solution in the near future? I definitely love the power,
flexibility, and expandability of the Mac Pro, but I honestly don’t see it fitting
nicely (even side-ways) into a server rack with its size and weight of 40+
pounds.
If there are no foreseeable future plans for a rack-mounted server solution, I hope
that Apple would be willing to consider opening up Mac OS X Server so that it
might be installed / supported on other Intel Xeon-based servers from other
vendors—or better yet, a scalable blade server setup running VMware. :)
Have a great weekend,
Brian
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-----Original Message-----
From: rockies-edu-bounces+brian.route=email@hidden
[mailto:rockies-edu-bounces+brian.route=email@hidden] On
Behalf Of Corey Carson
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 3:45 PM
To: email@hidden
Subject: [Rockies-Edu] The Xserve topic
A whole day goes by and nobody posts about the
discontinuation of the Xserve? The other listserves are lit up with traffic
about it, and I'm happy that you all have more important things to do :-)
http://www.apple.com/xserve/resources.html
In all seriousness, this was very surprising news for me
to wake up to today. Here is Apple's official response regarding the Xserve.
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"Apple remains committed to the development of
server products, services and technologies. Apple continues to offer Mac OS X
Server software, Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server, and starting today a new
configuration of Mac Pro with Snow Leopard Server. Today's announcement does
not impact the future of Xsan or server software on Mac OS X."
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There is also an Xserve transition guide, posted here:
http://images.apple.com/xserve/pdf/L422277A_Xserve_Guide.pdf
I'm sure questions along these lines have crossed your
mind at some point today:
- What about a hardware option with LOM (Lights-out
Management) and dual power supplies?
- Will there continue to be an Apple-specific Promise
RAID chassis?
- Are there plans to allow Mac OS X Server to live on
non-Apple hardware, either natively or virtualized?
- Was Apple selling more Mac Pros and Mac Minis for
servers in the first place?
- Will there be a service parts kit for the Mac Pro?
- Will there be support for side-oriented mounting of the
Mac Pro?
- Are there third party rack mounting options for the Mac
Pro? Mac Mini?
- Will Apple be 'outsourcing' to a 3rd party server
solution - ie Promise strategy?
- Will we see a preview of server services in 10.7?
My answer to all of these questions, embarrassing as it
is, is "I don't know." We are still gathering facts, and will have
more messaging and direction soon. As soon as I have it, I will share it on
this list with all of you. Please feel free to send me any feedback that you
have. If you do so, also submit your feedback to apple.com/feedback, as that
has significant impact as well.
Thanks, and have a great weekend.
Corey
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