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  • May 5, 2010
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  • May 11, 2010

Thank you all for your feedback

We have a budget of approximately £2500, were are looking at this Xserve

Apple Xserve 8-core "Nehalem" 2.26GHz/3GB/2x160GB/DualPSU 2 x 160GB Serial ATA ADM @ 7200-rpm (mirrored OS) Dual 750W Power Supply NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 256MB 8x SuperDrive DL (DVD+R DL/DVD + RW/CD-RW) 3GB (3x1GB)

Because we are restricted by budget ( and can't buy a RAIDED Xserve) I was
thinking of attaching some external storage space to hold the OSX Updates.

Or can anyone suggest a better way of doing this?


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  • May 11, 2010

Can i ask what macs u are supporting with this and what the demand will
be on the server?

Criss

Criss Myers
Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services)
iPhone Developer
Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5
LIS Development Team
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University of Central Lancashire
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  • May 11, 2010

Hi Criss

We are currently supporting approximately 120 Macs in our London Office ( a
combination of Mac PROs, MacBook PROs, iMacs and MacBooks) All running
10.5.8

The Server will need to be able to create packages, send out Images/OSX
Updates and it will also be used to remote control machines.

Abz


talkingmoose
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  • May 11, 2010

This is a comment aside from your discussion:
On 5/11/10 3:49 AM, "Abdurrahman Mungul" <abdurrahman.mungul at imagination.com> wrote:

I would avoid using the server as a workstation. Use a Mac workstation to
create packages and remote control machines. If you crash a workstation,
only one machine is affected. If you crash a server then everyone is
affected.

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William Smith
Technical Analyst
Merrill Communications LLC
(651) 632-1492