#USING A MAC MINI AS A SERVER FOR A BUINESS FULL#
#USING A MAC MINI AS A SERVER FOR A BUINESS SOFTWARE#

#USING A MAC MINI AS A SERVER FOR A BUINESS SOFTWARE#

Windows is much more manageable.Not sure the official line is it would detract from the experience, when I complained to an engineer that they weren't developing Xserves any more and that there were no good Apple released solutions for managing iPads they said big business were interested in buying Apple servers or Apple software to manage Apple devices in the corporate environment they go for a third party product. If I were you I'd fight real hard to not switch to Apple/Mac anything. There are third party options, but they tend to be very expensive, and no where near as robust as what you can find in Windows based machines. This has been a constant fight in education with them for many years now, and the few controls they have granted us do not flow over into the non-edu realms.

#USING A MAC MINI AS A SERVER FOR A BUINESS FULL#

You have to remember that Apple build their devices and software to be end users focused, and therefore they do not build in central controls and management, their official line is that this would 'detract from the user experience' The bottom line is they expect the end user to have near full control over the device/laptop. Then going all Mac is not an option either. It's an attorney's office, so security policies have to be enforced. I do need control over the network, so a simple NAS is not an option. They also have Thunderbolt to Fibre Channel and (to) 10GigEĪll of which is shoe-horning capabilities onto a unit not especially well-suited for such duties, and major overkill for 13 users with a simple 'file server.' What kind of workflow(s), file sizes and number of concurrent users are you talking about ? Sudden loss of power is deadly to any server.Įxternal storage should be for backup, or go with Thunderbolt or look at something like this: It's not fragile, just that (I have seen) a preponderance of fools run OS X server and don't have a properly-rated UPS dedicated to the box. OpenDirectory is fine, it's just not (nor has it ever been) a replacement for AD, and doesn't scale (anywhere near) as well. You will need to learn some Unix/shell/command-line, consider it a hard and fast requirement for being able to manage OS X server.Ī Mac mini can do fine, but you must get SSDs, otherwise they come with 5400-RPM rotation drives.

I've worked with OS X and OS X Server since the public beta, and acquired Apple's more advanced level server certification while it still existed.

First, you will not get (m)any opinions here that don't start with an anti-Apple bias.

Using a mac mini as a server for a buiness