Connect Intel Xserve and G4 Xserve?

I have a new Intel Xserve which I upgraded to from a G4 Xserve, which I think I'd like to keep and use to run FileMaker to serve a website. (Perhaps also use it for IP failover or backups, too, but first things first.)
How to configure them? Should I connect the G4 to the internet on en0 and to the router on en1? If the G4 is an OD replica, how does it talk to the Intel?
Any advice appreciated to point me in the right direction.

It all depends. If the router can also act as a reliable firewall, connect it to a switch and hook up both servers to the switch. You could then make whichever one an OD master and the other a Replica.
If the router isn't a real firewall, throw one in, connect to a switch, and then connect the servers to the switch.
If you're expecting the router to just be a roouter, and make your server the firewall, you're probably not taking the best approach and making you're computing life more difficult.
I don't mean to sound like a dope, but you should post back with a more complete description of your network, and what you can afford to put in your network. You can do a lot with an OS X Server or two if that's what you have, but there are better alternatives for some parts of your network.
hth
Jeff

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Hi i'm new at fiber world. Could anyone tell me how can i install 2 xserve raid on 1 xserve? In this moment i have 1 Xserve and 1 Xserve RAID conected directly with 2 fiber cables. I need to buy other xserve RAID but how can i conect it? i have to use a fiber switch? and if this is correct wich switch u recomend?
A link with schematics will be apreciated.
Thx in advance.

In the sense that you can plug everything in and it will auto-negotiate and things will just "show up" then yes it is like an ethernet hub.
You will probably have to do some simple configuration of the Sanbox via their admin tool but as long as you're only using the Xserve/RAID it should be easy because you just have one zone and all full speed ports. The QLogic docs are good, if basic, and the admin tool is pretty straightforward - especially for an easy set-up like this.
The way that fibre is not like ethernet (just so you're aware) is cannot have two Xserves plugged in sharing the same drives. This will work if you try it but horrible data corruption will eventually occur. Fibre is like ATA or SCSI and you can't share it between host computers in it's raw form. Just to be clear.
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=Tod
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I've managed to install the AXD on another Mac OS X server and activated the netboot image but it does not appear to run in the same manor as the Apple Remote Diagnostics for the Xserve G5s. Any help is appreciated!
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David
Unless someone knows different the only place I know of is here:
https://gsx.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/GSXAppServer.woa
You need an Apple ID. To access the Service Source you'll probably need a Tech ID. Alternatively you could apply for the CD from Apple directly? Or from an Apple Authorized Repair Specialist. You could take the XServe directly to either of those locations and see if they can run the Diagnostic tools for you?
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Hi everyone,
I'm planning on buying a new Xserve (and an Xserve RAID) and using the relatively new HP StorageWorks Ultrium 1840 SCSI (external tape drive) to do backups. The specs are over here:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&task Id=120&prodSeriesId=3454484&prodTypeId=12169&objectID=c01121300
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Is it correct that I will need to select these options?
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Björn

Yes, you have the right combination of cards there.
However, please rethink your choice of software.
There are numerous horror stories on these boards and others related to Retrospect in a Server environment. For some reason it just does not work, causing instability, hangs, poor performance and system crashes.
There are better alternatives including NetVault, BRU and Time Navigator, amongst others.

XServe and 10.5 won't boot..."syncing disks killing all processes"

Hey Everybody,
Have an Xserve Intel Quad-Core Xenon 2.8 GHz, 80gb, 2 Gb RAM. 10.5 Server.
2 Gb of RAM has been anemic. The server runs a few Cold Fusion Web Sites, DNS, OD, FTP, AFP, and Mail Services. Our mail is not light duty as we send out almost daily 70,000 e-mails to our customers.
Last week I added 2 x 4gb DIMM to bring up the RAM to 10 Gb. I added the RAM to slots 3 & 4. Saw great improvement right away. The night after, I noticed the server rebooted during the night. (Didn't look into why )
Well, I came in this morning and was checking up on the server (via ARD) and couldn't connect. Went to the server room and saw the machine was off. Not good. I restarted it and went back to my office. Checked again on ARD, and still wasn't available. Went back to server, rebooted in verbose mode (after booting with a monitor and seeing the screen show the apple with the spinning gear) and It's hanging then shutting down within three minutes of boot.
Attached is a pic of what is shown, at around 3 minutes from boot the screen will then say "syncing disks killing all processes" and the server shuts down.
I've googled all morning and have tried various methods to boot to no avail.
I removed the RAM that I added and the problem persists. I also removed the drive sled and reinserted it into the xserve and also tried bay 2.
Other things...
Yesterday added two more web sites and the DNS for it in Server Admin.
Any suggestions? Bad drive?
Shaun

OK, having exactly same issue - but on a much older and much less duty machine. Dual G4 1Ghz running 10.5 Server. Noticed that I could not connect via ARD and did hard shutdown, notice identifier light was on as well. The system did reboot as I could get my mail, but when I connected a monitor to it all I had was gray screen.
Did another hard shutdown after pressing IL and not just gets to logo and spinning wheel for a short while and shuts down.
It has been up and running flawlessly for long time prior to this.
My name is Sean too, maybe that is the issue...

Are there any problems with Snow Leopard Server (Xserve) and PPC Clients

Hi,
are there any problems identified yet with Snow Leopard Server, installed on a Xserve and PPC Clients running Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard?
Currently I have a Xserve Intel running Leopard Server and about 12 Mac Minis PPC running Mac OS X Tiger and Mac OS X Leopard. The Xserve serves services like DNS, OpenDirectory, Software Update Server, NetBoot, etc. All users have Home Directories stored on the Xserve.
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We have 2 Mac Pros and 4 Xserve Raids-

I have 2 Mac Pros and 4 Xserve Raids and want to do a quick fix. I want to hook them all to gather so we can share assets for Final Cut Pro. We have a Fiber Switch and tons of cable. I know that I can’t work on the same project file as the other machine. but can we use the same assets? And will the drives just mount to both of our machines if I just connect them all to the Fiber Switch?
We are planning on an Xsan later this year just not any time to do it.
Oh and a little off subject but can an Xserve Raid mount through the Gigabit connection? I want to connect a couple of laptops to edit some XDCAM video at 35Mbs a sec. Or will I have to wait till we put the Xsan in? Or do all the machines hooked though the Xsan have to be Fiber Channel?
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+I have 2 Mac Pros and 4 Xserve Raids and want to do a quick fix. I want to hook them all to gather so we can share assets for Final Cut Pro.+
You can do this but you're begging for trouble. Really. It could be possible to mount shares as read-only on one machine and writable on the other and at least make resources available but if you really want to do this then a SAN is what you want/need. If you're in too much of a rush to implement a proper SAN system you're also in too much of a rush to reproduce a project file or replace a source file that has been corrupted and lost because someone clicked on the wrong thing. Think about it.
+Oh and a little off subject but can an Xserve Raid mount through the Gigabit connection?+
If you're running server you can share out over ether as remote mount via afp or smb but I don't think this is what you're asking. Fibre is the only way to directly mount a drive directly to the desktop and edit video from it if that's what you mean.
+Or do all the machines hooked though the Xsan have to be Fiber Channel?+
XSAN is also *fibre only*. Ether is packeted and out of order and has latency and a bunch of other problems as a streamed data delivery system. You need fibre.
HTH,
=Tod

Xserve and Airport Network

Currently I have an Xserve G5 running through a switch hardwired computers. All of the ethernet ports connected to the switch provide my MBP with a DHCP and I can access both the server and the internet. The ABSs however will not recognize the server. They are all set up in Bridge mode and originally had them all set up under the same network name but changed them to separate names to trouble shoot. I have checked the ABS and purchased a new one to make sure that they are not the problem but they seem to be working otherwise.
I have assigned also manually assigned static IP addresses in sequential order and have no known conflicts with these addresses.
I currently only have one of these base stations working could it be as simple as resetting the server and the switch?
10.0.1.50
10.0.1.51
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Hi Matthew and Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Your description of your network configuration is a little sparse and hard to understand, but I'll give this a try.
Typical ISP connections are made through a modem/router. Usually, the modem/router will run a DHCP server to distribute IP addresses to devices on your internal network (LAN). Your MBP, Xserve and ABS's (when the ABS's are operating in Bridge mode) would receive a LAN IP address from the DHCP server in the modem/router, provided that they are configured to use DHCP in their Network settings in System Preferences.
Where things can get sticky - and get horribly confusing - is when there are two DHCP servers running on your LAN, effectively creating two different LANs within your network. Even worse is when the DHCP servers are running the same IP/Subnet groups.
You can, for example, configure the ABS to distribute IP addresses to wireless clients using it's DHCP server. In this scenario, wireless clients would not be able to see other devices upstream from the ABS since they are outside the DHCP network range the ABS is providing - even if the IP range and subnets match to what the DHCP server in the modem/router is using. (The ABS will use NAT to translate the IP address traffic in its DHCP server, treating them as separate network entities.)
Likewise, you could use the two network interfaces on the Xserve in a similar manner, connecting one to the modem/router and the other to a separate network switch, then enabling DHCP in OS X Server tied to the second network interface. Devices on the downlink side from the Xserve and switch would get their IP addresses from the Xserve DHCP server. This is perfectly fine, as long as the two network interfaces never cross paths on your network other than at the Xserve itself.
Manually assigning IP addresses on DHCP networks is also fine, as long as there are no replicated IP addresses, and that the Router IP Address and Subnet Mask match what is being distributed by the DHCP server. For example, you could have a setting such as:
IP Address: 10.0.1.50
Router IP: 10.0.1.1
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.255
Most modem/routers have a Web interface that you can access to manually reserve DHCP IP addresses to particular devices as well. Most will also let you restrict DHCP to a range of IP addresses, letting you run static IP addresses for devices on your LAN while still providing DHCP service to other devices without pre-assigned static IP addresses.
Now, compare all of that information with how your network is configured. If you follow the chain of network devices, determine which are providing DHCP services and where they are in the chain of your network flow, you can usually find the problem.
HTH,
-Doug

Xserve and UPS

Hi all,
I have an UPS with a Xserve connected. Last Night, Lights off an the Xserve shutted down correctly but I want to know How can I detect the proccess that runs when Xserve enters in UPS mode?. I want to programme some scripts based on this feature ...
I have an Smart-UPS 3000.
Thanks and sorry for my English.
Regards,

To confirm, you have your Xserve connected to an APC Smart-UPS UPS device via USB (or network), and the connection worked as designed and the Xserve detected the on-battery power status and the battery status and gracefully shut itself down during a power outage. Right?
What's not so clear to me here is if you want to either look at the device status, or if you want to perform site-specific tasks when the UPS-initiated shutdown is triggered. And if you want to look at the status, when you want to know the status; if you want to get in ahead of the actual shutdown, for instance.
If the former is the case, the bash shell command you probably want is pmset.
For the latter, you can perform various operations during a shutdown using the upsshutdown script.
For these cases, you can use +man pmset+ or +man upsshutdown+ for details.
I don't know off-hand if there's a way to determine when you're on-battery with sufficient power remaining short of polling -- or short of inserting a daemon and some code into some of the (I'm guessing here, but would investigate whether these events are available) IPMI-level event processing. There may well be a daemon available for this task. The ipmitool can fetch you the chassis power, and there's a +Last Power Event : ac-failed+ status. So there's likely a way to this data. (The ipmitool utility doesn't have a man page, though it has internal help and you can Google for the code and for some command-level details.)
Regardless, I fully expect there's a way to get the on-battery notification (and ahead of the shutdown), if that's what you're looking for.

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I try to connect Xserve (OS 10.6.2) to IBM DS3400 storage (FC interface). Once I assigned logical drive to Xserve and restart the server, after logging in, it show error dialog with message "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer." and it cannot be initialize or format. I don't know what to do next and hope some guys in this discussion may help.
Thank you,
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Hi,
Unfortunately the IBM DS3400 does not support Mac OSX. You can check the interoprability matrix here:
IBM System Storage DS3000 series Interoperability Matrix
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/product/interop.html
I have also spent a fair bit of time trying different host types but have found that even when you can mount and write data to the disks, it is very unreliable.
According to the matrices, OSX support starts at the DS6000 level of storage arrays.
HTH.
Dobs.

Airflow of and xserve and xraid

Hi all,
A question.
I am trying to put together an air conditioning system for a rack that will have 3 xserves and 2 xraids.
I am trying to find out what the airflow to the rack will need to be.
Is there anyone out there that could tell me the cfm of an intel xserve and the xraid fan systems at FULL tilt?
Kind regards,
Neil Watson

CFM isn't your issue.
The fans are variable speed - they adjust based on demand and environmental conditions - and I've only ever seen them running full tilt (about 14K rpm) when there's something seriously amiss. Even under the highest loads I rarely see more than about 8K or 9K rpm.
For active cooling what is more important is either BTU (the thermal output of the server) or kW (the power draw).
Apple provide sample data for various XServe configurations in this tech note, and the XServe RAID in this one.
Your AC technician should be able to translate those figures into a suitable system for cooling your servers.

Xserve and Compaq HSG80 won't play nice.

My company purchased a used HSG80 SAN to use in conjunction with an xserve. The xserve is only a few months old and has been fully updated to 10.5.3. They are connected through Fiber channel.
I have made available from the SAN that is 820GB in size. However whenever I try to write data to the mounted drive it will either not complete successfully at all in the case of files over a few hundred megabytes in size. Small files will write, but will be corrupted.
I have tried giving a linux machine access to his disk and it can partition and write files just fine.
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HP have published compatibility with a few of its StorageWorks widgets.
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My school just received a new G5 Xserve and a 20 inch cinema display. Unfortunately, the display has a DVI connection and the Xserve has a 9 pin male connector. What can I get to connect the two?

There are adapters to use all the stuff you mentioned together, but some of them are expensive.
MUCH more information on exactly which models of things you are trying to interconnect to give exact advice.
For example, you said cinema display. There are CRTs, LCDs, Lucite borders, Aluminum borders, some with ADC connectors, some with DVI connectors, and the new ones now have Mini DisplayPort connectors. Some have power supplies, some do not.
For the ones with ADC and no power supply, just buy a used DVI-to-ADC adapter with Power Supply (under US$100 on the used market) and it becomes a DVI display with a power supply in the cable.
You said Mac Pro. There are at least six models, depending on how you count, and depending on which display card is installed, some stuff will plug right in, some requires an adapter. Some adapters are twenty bucks, some are over a hundred bucks.
If you want one or two displays, the first port on the newest Mac Pros at this writing have a dual-Link DVI port, good for up to a 30-inch cinema display. The other two are Mini DisplayPort. Mini DisplayPort can be turned into single-Link DVI (good for up to 1920 wide) with a cheap adapter. If you want three display, there are MUCH more stringent requirements.
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Is there a way to hear audio from an XServe and RDA??

We have a training CD that runs on our XServe and we need others to be able to log in an run the video's.
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