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I am considering buying Lion Server, so that I can get a feel for administering it (my background is in Windows Server and Warp Server for eBusiness). I have a 2010 21.5" iMac, which I upgraded to Lion a couple of weeks ago. I also have a MacBook Air with Lion.
I am wondering if I can just purchase Lion Server from the App Store and install it on my iMac, using the MBA as a client machine.
(1) Is this possible?
(2) Will I still be able to use the iMac as a regular machine, running (principally) Aperture and later on Final Cut Pro X as local programs
(3) What likely pitfalls am I going to encounter, and what (other than the client services) will I gain? I'm thinking that hosting Podcasts might be useful, but I don't know much about it
and finally,
(4) What resources are there to help me migrate my skills from Windows Server?
TIA,
Thomas

The other option is boot from your restore partition use diskutility to add third partition then use the reinstall lion option to install lion on 3rd partition, this will then download lion for you and reinstall it!
When this is done you can set it up properly (static ip etc) and then download the server app and install it!
Depending on what you want to do running it as your machine is not a big problem it works fine just keep in mind you might need to restart a few times and if you using it as a server that could be an issue!
in order to boot from your restore partition just reboot and hold down <alt>

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