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Almostoverit Author

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Mountain lion server not compatible with Xserve's older than 2009? Outraged.

I have 3 Xserve's happily running in an enterprise hosting environment and I thought as I was changing the duties of my 2008 Xserve that i'd upgrade to Mountain Lion while I had the chance....

I cannot believe Apple hasn't written at least some legacy support in for these Xserve's and Mac Pro's that don't run the 64bit EFI. The processors are 64bit and would easily outdo most of the new iMacs and Mac Mini's and such.

So I now have a machine that does it's job more than adequately that will be obsolete because of a software upgrade.

Apple's newfound lack of support for business and legacy devices has not got to me until today...

Ben

Xserve, OS X Mountain Lion, not happy apple...

Posted on Jul 26, 2012 2:35 AM

18 replies

Aug 23, 2012 2:54 PM in response to Community User

Google is your friend. I've been admonished on the forums before so I will not explicitly link to the solution. So far our only limitation on the 2006 appears to be a cap of 8 GB of RAM. Anything over and you KP. Again, this is unsupported so consider the deployment environment before going forward.

Aug 25, 2012 1:43 AM in response to Strontium90

Thanks for your response. I will look into this further.

Oct 3, 2012 11:51 PM in response to Almostoverit

I have lost all faith in Apple as a enterprise company.

No wonder that third party company, what was it called? Psychstar or something like that was making rack mountable 'Hackintosh' servers. It is sad that apple is going this route as I am sure a lot of people are now Hackintoshing servers.

Mountain lion server not compatible with Xserve's older than 2009? Outraged.