Dear All
I currently provide IT Services to approximately 100 users of iMacs, eMac and Powerbooks and am looking at our future requirements, as we are moving buildings and will have the space/environment for an xRaid. Currently we have 4 OSX 10.3.8 server servers (Dual G5 2ghz) and a FileMaker server:
Open Directory Master
Firewall and VPN Server
Mail and Web Server
Users and Groups Server
FileMaker (5 currently - moving to 7) Server - OSX 10.3.8 Client (moving to OSX Server)
With data on the machine's boot drives backed up to tape every night.
Gigabit Ethernet backbone.
We are migrating all the users to Managed Mobile Accounts and are adding more Network home users.
Ideally I'd like to get the mail server folder, the web-server folder, users and groups and the filemaker data onto an Xraid and have the various servers read and write to the xRaid. Seems this could substantially improve reliability, improve recovery from a failure, substantially improve backup reliability, centralise the data for easier admin....
Looking at the Apple Enterprise Backups solutions document it looks as if this is possible if the Xraid is set up as a SAN.
Does anyone have views on this?
Does anyone have any idea whether FileMaker 7 Server will like this set up?
Am I barking up the wrong tree completely.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated and I'd like to take this opportunity to thank AFP548.com and all is contributors for their invaluable contribution to the OSX Server cause.
Steve