are X serves for webhosting or something, or just having a network of regular computers I really dont understand, can someone shine some light on the matter for me. I Have a decent knowledge and understand all the specs of this, But even though Im assuming that its to be a webserver a server can be many things to many peoplel
Well I use an older 4 core Intel Xserve for file serving. It has half an Xserve RAID for the main storage and a huge Rorke RAID for the Time Machine drive and large project storage. It has a 4 port fiber Channel card and a 10 gig Small Tree ethernet card.
I have another one, an 8 core Intel that is used for a wide variety of uses including Cinema 4D render server, print server, Episode compression system, Red camera file processor and so on.
Xserve is a general purpose server that can do whatever you need it to do - including web hosting I suppose.
An Xserve is Apple's server. It can be an Open Directory Server (Think Active Directory in Win Server), be a simple file server, web server, mail server (for OS X Mail), etc.
... calendar server, full multi-media AV chat server & (more importantly) stably, securely, concurrently for as many users as those Nehalems can handle and all for a $1,500 license (or $750/year assuming 24-month OS upgrade cycle)
... calendar server, full multi-media AV chat server & (more importantly) stably, securely, concurrently for as many users as those Nehalems can handle and all for a $1,500 license (or $750/year assuming 24-month OS upgrade cycle)
Yes, give me the extra lanes, when I want to deal with OpenCL on dual GPUs. Hell yes.
The Mac Pro has 2 16-lane slots (one is occupied by the graphics card) and 2 4-lane. The Xserve has 2 16-lane slots open plus whatever it uses for it's desecrate graphics chip. I don't think the Mac Pro could get more PCI lanes without putting another controller chip on the motherboard thus increasing the price further (!).
The new Xserve delivers up to 2x the I/O bandwidth of the previous generation via two 16-lane (x16) wide PCI Express 2.0 expansion slots. Because the slots are independent, bandwidth isn?t shared between them. So you get all the bandwidth you need for the latest I/O cards, including 10Gb Ethernet and multiport 4Gb Fibre Channel cards.
... calendar server, full multi-media AV chat server & (more importantly) stably, securely, concurrently for as many users as those Nehalems can handle and all for a $1,500 license (or $750/year assuming 24-month OS upgrade cycle)
Mac OS X Server v10.5 Leopard Unlimited-Client Edition is included.
Now if you want to buy Mac OS X Server unlimited client license for NON-XSERVE/Older XServe hardware, then be my guest.
Mac OS X Server v10.5.4 (Unlimited-client license) $999.
However, the new XServe includes that within the base price and thus they've absorbed the charge.
That'll teach me not to read up! So how many concurrent users could I expect to serve up the basics to with one Xserve? (file, print, mail, calendar, basic intranet - not video or high-volume media)
That'll teach me not to read up! So how many concurrent users could I expect to serve up the basics to with one Xserve? (file, print, mail, calendar, basic intranet - not video or high-volume media)
McD
Good questions. That one would require some testing and research.
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two PCI Express 2.0 x16 expansion slots;
Yet, the Mac Pro doesn't have this feature. Something needs to change on the Pro.
PCI Express expansion
Three open full-length PCI Express expansion slots
One PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot
Two PCI Express 2.0 x4 slots
All slots provide mechanical support for 16-lane cards
300W combined maximum for all PCI Express slots
Which means are you really needing another 16 lane bandwidth slot? I think 2GB/s will do on the X4 slots.
Drool.
iLife would just scream on this hardware.
are X serves for webhosting or something, or just having a network of regular computers I really dont understand, can someone shine some light on the matter for me. I Have a decent knowledge and understand all the specs of this, But even though Im assuming that its to be a webserver a server can be many things to many peoplel
Well I use an older 4 core Intel Xserve for file serving. It has half an Xserve RAID for the main storage and a huge Rorke RAID for the Time Machine drive and large project storage. It has a 4 port fiber Channel card and a 10 gig Small Tree ethernet card.
I have another one, an 8 core Intel that is used for a wide variety of uses including Cinema 4D render server, print server, Episode compression system, Red camera file processor and so on.
Xserve is a general purpose server that can do whatever you need it to do - including web hosting I suppose.
PCI Express expansion
Three open full-length PCI Express expansion slots
One PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot
Two PCI Express 2.0 x4 slots
All slots provide mechanical support for 16-lane cards
300W combined maximum for all PCI Express slots
Which means are you really needing another 16 lane bandwidth slot? I think 2GB/s will do on the X4 slots.
Yes, give me the extra lanes, when I want to deal with OpenCL on dual GPUs. Hell yes.
An Xserve is Apple's server. It can be an Open Directory Server (Think Active Directory in Win Server), be a simple file server, web server, mail server (for OS X Mail), etc.
... calendar server, full multi-media AV chat server & (more importantly) stably, securely, concurrently for as many users as those Nehalems can handle and all for a $1,500 license (or $750/year assuming 24-month OS upgrade cycle)
McD
... calendar server, full multi-media AV chat server & (more importantly) stably, securely, concurrently for as many users as those Nehalems can handle and all for a $1,500 license (or $750/year assuming 24-month OS upgrade cycle)
McD
What $1,500 license?
Yes, give me the extra lanes, when I want to deal with OpenCL on dual GPUs. Hell yes.
The Mac Pro has 2 16-lane slots (one is occupied by the graphics card) and 2 4-lane. The Xserve has 2 16-lane slots open plus whatever it uses for it's desecrate graphics chip. I don't think the Mac Pro could get more PCI lanes without putting another controller chip on the motherboard thus increasing the price further (!).
The new Xserve delivers up to 2x the I/O bandwidth of the previous generation via two 16-lane (x16) wide PCI Express 2.0 expansion slots. Because the slots are independent, bandwidth isn?t shared between them. So you get all the bandwidth you need for the latest I/O cards,
... calendar server, full multi-media AV chat server & (more importantly) stably, securely, concurrently for as many users as those Nehalems can handle and all for a $1,500 license (or $750/year assuming 24-month OS upgrade cycle)
McD
Thanks for filling in the etc.
What $1,500 license?
Oops! US$999 (in fact NZ$1,449 not NZ$1,500) for the unlimited client license.
McD
Oops! US$999 (in fact NZ$1,449 not NZ$1,500) for the unlimited client license.
McD
Are you referring to Xsan 2? That's $999.
Mac OS X Server v10.5 Leopard Unlimited-Client Edition is included.
Now if you want to buy Mac OS X Server unlimited client license for NON-XSERVE/Older XServe hardware, then be my guest.
Mac OS X Server v10.5.4 (Unlimited-client license) $999.
However, the new XServe includes that within the base price and thus they've absorbed the charge.
Nice upgrade, good to see that they are in front with the new CPU's.
Anyone care to speculatewhy there is no 4 8 racks? I see many clients with 3-5 units. Why no, for example, a 4 rack unit?
Are you referring to Xsan 2? That's $999.
Mac OS X Server v10.5 Leopard Unlimited-Client Edition is included.
Now if you want to buy Mac OS X Server unlimited client license for NON-XSERVE/Older XServe hardware, then be my guest.
Mac OS X Server v10.5.4 (Unlimited-client license) $999.
However, the new XServe includes that within the base price and thus they've absorbed the charge.
That'll teach me not to read up! So how many concurrent users could I expect to serve up the basics to with one Xserve? (file, print, mail, calendar, basic intranet - not video or high-volume media)
McD
That'll teach me not to read up! So how many concurrent users could I expect to serve up the basics to with one Xserve? (file, print, mail, calendar, basic intranet - not video or high-volume media)
McD
Good questions. That one would require some testing and research.