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beatle20359 Author

Level 2

314 points

A Sad day.. Xserve discontinued...

http://images.apple.com/xserve/pdf/L422277AXserveGuide.pdf

Personally I'm not the least bit happy about this.. I don't want a rack full of MacPro's or a shelf full of under powered mac mini's... I utilise the LOM card.. I run 2 power supplies and want the ability to quickly and easily hot swap parts.... I know this is not the place for writing such things but I am disappointed to see the end of a great product with no true replacement available for it.

Many thanks
Beatle

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Nov 5, 2010 4:06 AM

202 replies

beatle20359 Author

Level 2

314 points

Sep 5, 2011 5:53 AM in response to hylas

Nice post Hylas, the funny thing is i've bought and sold more Xserves recently than ever before and most to new customers.. There is obviously a market for them and as Apple back tracked on Final Cut I hope they do consider replacing the Xserve with something more capable than the mini and Mac Pro. Oh and er uhm improving on Lion Server considerably.... If the Apple TV is a hobby and still has potential the enterprise market should be given time to adopt. I doubt very much that sales of the Xserve were down year over year.

All the best

Beatle

gauso001

Level 1

10 points

Mar 22, 2012 7:01 AM in response to beatle20359

OK, IT'S DISCONTIMUED, SO WHAT?

Here I am in 2012, and I just got an INTEL Xserve for $500, and it fits my needs in Lion Server perfectly, just get one off of EBAY like me, since there are a few of them for sale.

beatle20359 Author

Level 2

314 points

Mar 22, 2012 8:23 AM in response to gauso001

Gauso001, not quite what the thread was about. For those of us that run an all mac server environment and need things like hotswappable parts, redundant PSU's and Lights Out Management no new hardware means a major change to how we work in the future.

Beatle

Aaron P

Level 1

0 points

Mar 27, 2012 2:09 PM in response to beatle20359

I just spoke with Apple Enterprise Support today and the guy there said that Apple DOES read and act on comments given through their feedback link here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

He gave an example of how many people complained about losing features that were part of the discontinued Final Cut Server product and how Apple listened and added those features into Final Cut Pro X.

If everyone who has written on this thread submits their feedback to the link above, there is a good chance that Apple will listen and possibly make a new Xserve. Who wouldn't want an "Xserve 2" or an "Xserve Pro"--whatever they want to call it--with new dual Xeon E5 8-core chips?!

I've already written, what's 2 minutes out of your life to get this ball rolling?

Mar 29, 2012 8:00 AM in response to gauso001

Try buying 30 of them that match you berk.

Mar 25, 2013 12:06 AM in response to beatle20359

I just started the process of setting up a server for my company. My first thought was turning to Xserve. I was shocked when I saw that it was gone. As long as apple keeps developing the server software, I'm a happy camper.

Apr 21, 2014 6:03 PM in response to Aaron P

Aaron

I have a question about the wiki iframes. Do you have or know of a fix for this in Mavericks?

A Sad day.. Xserve discontinued...