![]() This could have been replaced by a converter to go from copper to fiber gigabit but I originally thought the fiber card could be ordered instead of a second copper card, and I had trouble finding the converter. We ordered a fiber gigabit Ethernet card for the Xserve with the idea that it could connect to the rest of the network via one of the uplinks on the 48-port switch. We bought an Xserve for a variety of reasons, and it had to fit into a network containing the following components:ġ) A Sun 450 with a 1.5 terabyte RAID serving files to Macs and Windows workstations and twelve Ethernet ports including two fiber and one copper gigabit ports.Ģ) A 48 port 100 baseT switch with a dual fiber gigabit uplink to the Sun.ģ) About 30 Mac workstations running OS 9.2ħ) A 24 port 100 baseT switch with a copper gigabit uplinkĨ) A Cobalt Qube internet gateway, email and webpage server For years we relied on sneakernet to move data through the facility, but in 2000 we centralized our storage with a Sun server. ![]() We also use Windows computers to run 3D, tracking and other image processing tools that do not exist on the Mac. We use Macs for painting and compositing and for some 3D work. Illusion Arts is a small visual effects facility with about 20 employees which was spun off from the Universal Studios Matte Department in 1985. What I am hoping to accomplish here is to harvest the fruit in a way that spares at least one other person from having to negotiate the maze and permits him or her to get on with life. Our experience with the Xserve has definitely been of the surreal variety, and I am tempted to chronicle the whole nightmare so that the reader is forced to submit to the same initiation ritual I endured but this is not the place for that. Generally when a new computer product is introduced, some users find it to be a completely-plug-and-play dream while others descend into a nether world where everything that should work doesn't. Illusion Arts purchased an Xserve in September 2002 after a very persuasive marketing seminar by Apple. ![]() Educational Institution and Student DiscountsĬolumn Tag: Sysadmin Configuring an Xserve as a Router A Case Study in System Administration for Digital Janitorsīy Richard Patterson An Xserve user experience.
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