Re: xserve vs

["Glenn A. Bookout" <gb.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Howdy:

On Jul 16, 2005, at 01:03, Ron Grayson wrote:

> I currently am running iTools on towers.  But need to move to 1 rack U 
> environment.
   You only have 1U available, or it's just rack mounting?

   If only 1U the Xserve is probably the only option, but if rack 
mounting, have them give you shelves instead.

   I have 1/2 cabinet and by juggling shelves we have 2 B&W G3 Towers, 
an iMac, a 4400 for DNS and power control, and 2 1U Linux PCs ( owned 
by a sub-renter, and definitely less secure than OSX from our 
experience ).  Currently we're in the process of replacing the B&Ws w/ 
mini's, which is leaving large gaping holes of space.

   We may get an Xserve in next year to see what we can do w/ some of 
its H/W redundancy and RAID, etc.

> I like running on the client but wonder if there is a way to get the 
> xserve monitoring on a client.
   Not sure, but others can probably suggest some free/shareware 
alternatives.  We use a couple of free outside services to ping the 
servers and PowerKey to control power for forced re-booting.  Someone 
elsewhere also suggested the free SMARTReporter for drive monitoring.

   A combination of SSH and TB2 give all the remote access we usually 
need.

   In the over 5 yrs. we've been serving on OSX ( starting w/ v.1.2 ) 
we've had more problems w/ general CoLo failures ( power or network 
outages ) than we've had w/ our Macs, though we may have been 
Mac-lucky.

> Also, why did most people abandon the server version.
   A minimum of ~$500 just for the monitoring tools may seem like a bit 
much to some, but if I were serving a Fortune 500 company I would 
probably feel differently ( and charge a lot more ).  Also, anyone 
doing a lot of file sharing would probably need a version of the 
server.

> Does its services get in the way of iTools? It seems that server has 
> an admin and a workgroup application that runs the services but 
> otherwise it seems the same as client????
   Basically so.

   HTH.

Glenn

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