Xserve 3,1/10.6.8 Server and Promise VTrak Ex30 Raid

My set up
Xserve 3,1/10.6.8 Server/18go ram/3x 2TO AppleRaid Card/Services AFP,SMB, OD, VPN
I need to add some storage space to the Xserve.
I could buy the Promise H4946LL/A Vtrak X30 Series 3U 16-Bay Dual-Controller 16X2TB SATA APPLE for +/- 19K
Or I could buy the Promise VTE630FDNX (No drives) and had those HD. +/- 10K
Add 8X4TB SATA for 3600$
Total: +/- 14K for 32TO and I still have 8 free hard drive bay for the futur
So did anybody ever setup Promise VTE630FDNX with a Xserve 3,1/10.6.8 Server/Atto Celerity FC-84EN ?
Thanks,

Hi, maracujana,
the problem can be solved if you allow the permssion of parental folder of your share points to have at least Read Only permission for User and Group:
permission: 644
User: Read&Write
Group: Read Only
Others: Read Only (or No Access)
In my case, it is strange that PCs can still do the search to the Snow Leopard Server by SMB protocol while Mac using AFP cannot even when the parental folder had permission 600. This could be a secure issue in Snow Leopard's SMB1.0 protocol. Note that SMB in Snow Leopard is SMB1.0, which is less secure and hence deprecated after Snow Leopard. From Lion onwards, all OS X uses SMB2.0 and/or SMB X.
Oh, yes, there is one more thing:
you may find your scanner using SMB protocol stopped functioning properly if you use (Mountain) Lion client and (Mountain) Lion server. It boils down to Apple's silent change of SMB protocol from SMB1.0 to SMB2.0. Solution? Use FTP protocol for now. Don't blame Apple too much because Apple had to follow the rules of GPLv3. The SMB issue will go on as Microsoft introduces its own SMB 3.0 protocol in Windows 8 while Apple introduces its SMB verison dubbed SMB X.
Hope this helps.

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My question is where the bottlenecks in this setup would be. The server software/hardware? The network? What else am I forgetting

I assume you're looking at Mac mini because you've already run the numbers on Mac Pro and ruled it out. I wonder how many buyers are opting for Mac mini solely for those Promise Thunderbolt arrays.
I also assume that each of your users is currently using a single gigabit Ethernet port to connect to the LAN.
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You asked about bottlenecks. I can think of three, two of which you can work around now or in the near future. The first is Mac mini's slow internal hard drive(s). You'll have a solution in hand: Boot Mac mini from the array. Some consider that to be a controversial choice, but you shouldn't spend extra for the Mac mini server with dual 7200 RPM drives. The less costly Core i7 configure-to-order upgrade will give you a bigger boost.
Booting from the array also protects you from the most likely "repair" scenario for Mac mini: Swapping out your entire machine.
The second issue is Mac mini's lack of an expansion bus. If you get more users or start using apps that demand more from the LAN, you might want to fire up additional gigabit Ethernet ports. Mac mini has just one. At present, the only way to add a gigabit port is with a Thunderbolt PCIe bus expander. Early next year, there should be more options that connect directly or via an intermediate bus like ExpressCard/34 or USB 3.0.
The one limitation you're powerless to work around is RAM. Mac mini tops out at 8 GB. That meets requirements, but it will be tight if you try to use Mac mini as a client and a server. I deploy them headless so no one's tempted to use the console.
You can improve your odds that gigabit will cut it by using heavy, short Cat6 cables and a switch dedicated to the Mac LAN. Use Mac mini's built-in Wi-Fi to keep Remote Desktop and other low-priority traffic off the wire.
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Hello.
I have two Xserves (a G5 and a new Intel), both with fresh installs of 10.5 Server on them.
Xserve #1 not going to be hosting any external services (FTP, web, email) and only housing internal, mission critical & confidential data (the server is set up with a mirror RAID on the OS drive as well as mirror RAID on the storage drives + nightly tape backups for offsite storage). Right now there are no plans for enabling iCal on this server as we're trying to keep the server as basic as possible (as we can afford zero downtime on this server), but if the initial setup of 10.5 requires configuration at first run to allow this type of thing, I'd like to deal with it now so as to keep my options open (as I know iCal on 10.5 requires Open Directory enabled).
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Because Xserve #2 is going to be hosting FTP, would it make sense to setup DNS on this server and not set it up on Xserve #1? Also, and this could just be me being paranoid, but because Xserve #1 will be housing "critical & confidential" data I want to eliminate as much contact with the outside world as possible with this server, so this is another reason I feel Xserve #2 should have DNS running instead.
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Any advice would be appreciated!
Regards,
Kristin.

There's a couple of things in your post I don't understand:
the server is set up with a mirror RAID on the OS drive as well as mirror RAID on the storage drives
How are you doing this? Both XServes support only three internal drives and two mirrors require 4 drives. Where does the fourth drive come into play?
I'm curious as to how I set up DNS in this situation
There are numerous ways of doing this, but with a single static IP address your best bet is to leave DNS where it is - managed by your hosting provider. Just add a record in the domain zone (e.g. ftp.yourdomain.com) that has the IP address of the public interface your SonicWall firewall. You don't need a separate domain for this. You also don't need to setup internal DNS for this (although you may need internal DNS if you're running Open Directory.
Because Xserve #2 is going to be hosting FTP, would it make sense to setup DNS on this server and not set it up on Xserve #1?
Assuming you're referring to setting up a DNS server - use them BOTH. Make one of the servers the primary server (I'd pick the internal-only server for this) and set the other server to be a slave (so it copies all the zone data from the primary server). That way you have a replica of the data to provide additional resilience.

What are the OS differences between mini, mini server and XServe?

Hi,
Apart from cpu speed disk size and memory,
what are the differences between the mac mini and the mini server?
What, if any, are the differences in the OS, software tools etc?
Also, what are the differences between the OS in the mini, mini server
and the XServe (apart from of course cpu cores etc)?
Thanks

Thanks.
Is it safe to say that these two pages list
all the differences?
http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html
http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/specs.html
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postconf -n results:
command_directory = /usr/sbin
config_directory = /etc/postfix
daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
debugpeerlevel = 2
html_directory = no
inet_interfaces = localhost
mail_owner = postfix
mailboxsizelimit = 0
mailbox_transport = cyrus
mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq
manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
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mydomain = rubenkalath.com
mydomain_fallback = localhost
myhostname = mail.rubenkalath.com
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8
mynetworks_style = host
newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases
queue_directory = /private/var/spool/postfix
readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix
sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix/examples
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail
setgid_group = postdrop
smtpdtls_certfile = /etc/certificates/Default.crt
smtpdtls_keyfile = /etc/certificates/Default.key
smtpdusetls = no
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May 15 15:55:27 sincity postfix/cleanup[1257]: 765DC4517A: message-id=<[email protected]>
May 15 15:55:27 sincity postfix/qmgr[1239]: 765DC4517A: from=<[email protected]>, size=881, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
May 15 15:55:27 sincity postfix/smtpd[1254]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
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May 15 15:58:13 sincity postfix/smtpd[1338]: lost connection after CONNECT from localhost[127.0.0.1]
May 15 15:58:13 sincity postfix/smtpd[1338]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
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May 15 16:06:09 sincity postfix/master[590]: reload configuration
May 15 16:12:48 sincity postfix/smtpd[1709]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
May 15 16:12:54 sincity postfix/smtpd[1709]: lost connection after CONNECT from localhost[127.0.0.1]
May 15 16:12:54 sincity postfix/smtpd[1709]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
May 15 16:28:58 sincity postfix/smtpd[2068]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
May 15 16:28:58 sincity postfix/smtpd[2068]: 1FA354537C: client=localhost[127.0.0.1]
May 15 16:28:58 sincity postfix/cleanup[2071]: 1FA354537C: message-id=<[email protected]>
May 15 16:28:58 sincity postfix/qmgr[1530]: 1FA354537C: from=<[email protected]>, size=776, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
May 15 16:28:58 sincity postfix/smtpd[2068]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
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What You Need to Install Leopard Server
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At least 1 gigabyte (GB) of random access memory (RAM)
At least 20 gigabytes (GB) of disk space available
An active connection to a secure Ethernet network
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We are running into a big problem. We just upgrade our server to a new Xserver 8 core running OS X 10.5.4. Previously the server was and older Xserver running 10.4.11, we didn't have problems then.
After the connection is established everything works and the clients that are running OSX 10.4.11 and windows XP can see the shares via NFS and Samba.
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For starters, use AFP for Macs, not NFS. Seriously.
Check the logs for smb and the system logs, and post relevant error messages.
Next step consider wireshark or tcpump to watch your network traffic and try to capture
a client droppage/disconnect if at all possible.
Also post the UNedited result of (using the terminal):
sudo changeip -checkhostname

AFP Server and DNS

Hi All,
I have just set up a new XServe as a file server. Our Open Directory Master was running AFP Directory Services and DNS.
I have now turned off AFP on the directory server, and connected the new XServe to this and started AFP.
All seems to be working fine, but on checking the system logs there is a load of stuff about servermgrd and no dns.
My question is, do i need to set up DNS on this server also?
Thanks,
Kevin
G4 Quicksilver 733 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
G4 Quicksilver 733 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

All seems to be working fine, but on checking the
system logs there is a load of stuff about servermgrd
and no dns.
Posting the actual log entries would be useful. I suspect the DNS ones are the standard one which gets reported every 20 mins (or 30?) if you do not have a dns.
My question is, do i need to set up DNS on this
server also?
No, but if you have a local dns in the other server it would be beneficial to set the System Prefs-> DNS Server to the other servers IP and then add an entry in that DNS for the afp server. The afp server will then be able to resolve its name and will not issue the dns errors.
-david

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