deploying x-serves with OS X server (10.4 at the time) was really easy and just worked, even with complicated MCX profiles, xgrid for laboratory machines and netboot.

I started my career in IT at a big university with ~800 macs. I still haven't fully tested larger drives. They originally only came with 500GB HDD and were firmware upgradable to work with 750GB. These 'enterprise' RAID units used IDE/PATA, so I have a PATA to SATA adapter secured in each caddy with a 1TB 7200RPM laptop HDD. Surprisingly, we're STILL using the Apple XRAID units. Its NFSv4 ACL management was similar to what OS X Server and Windows used, which put it ahead of what Linux could do. Server 2003 R2 and Server 2008 R2 AD with UNIX Extensions became the replacement directory controller.įreeBSD became the new file server replacement. It wasn't the easiest thing to migrate from. I believe the last Intel ones were only supported to 10.7, but Apple also seem to gut OS X Server after 10.6. and I was handed control over everything.

Used them for OpenLDAP instead of AD, user management, file servers, web server, etc. They emptied the coffers and spent the entire IT budget on the aluminum-est server room I'd ever seen. My employer had gone all-in on Apple Enterprise offerings when they were still a thing.Īpple Xserves, XRAIDs, etc.

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