Xserve Cluster Node Server Wrong Purchase

[Brian Willoughby]

Read the manuals that come with the Cluster Node, and the PDF  
documentation on the Server Admin tools install CD.  They'll get you  
over half way there.  Experience will take care of the rest.

The Cluster Node has a price advantage.  It costs the same as the  
base model, but has two processors instead of one.  You give up the  
two extra drive bays and the video card.  I may someday regret not  
having the extra drive bays, but by the time I need more space I'm  
sure I can fit it all into one bay.  But I can use the second  
processor right away, and it saved me $1,000 compared to the other  
models.

Buy another Cluster Node only if you need another CPU.  It's  
basically just a specific price point for a given feature list.

Brian Willoughby
Sound Consulting


On Apr 3, 2007, at 12:45, Lyn wrote:

Thanks for the reply. I am familiar with OS X Server admin and will  
fire up the new Xserve on the network later today. Similar to you, it  
will eventually end up at a co-location where everything is headless  
anyway.

As long as I have this Cluster Node Server, is there some advantage I  
could reap? Does buying another cluster node server make sense in  
terms of improved performance or something? Is there a Xserver  
Cluster Node primer (for dummies) that I could learn from?

Thanks again

Lyn