March 2012
Beginner
220 pages
5h 50m
English
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Chapter 1. Planning
As with all technical things, measure twice, cut once. But how much time to spend measuring depends in large part on how complicated your environment is. There are a lot of factors that go into planning a server appropriately, such as heating and cooling, the physical machine that will be the server, and even how the server will be backed up.
You can spend an unlimited amount of money on a server. Or you can spend next to nothing and buy a used Mac mini on eBay. The scale of your purchase and the complexity of the deployment are two very independent concepts though. In this chapter, we’re going to look at, well, basically what you should buy before you get started installing that spiffy server of yours (and, importantly, whether you should buy something different than the shiny box you already have in your hands).
The Minimum
By default, Lion Server is installed from the Mac App Store on a computer that is already running Mac OS X Lion. The minimum requirements for the computer that you install Lion Server on will be the following:
64-bit Intel processor
2 gigabytes of RAM
10 gigabytes of available hard drive space
Access to the Mac App Store on the Internet
These settings are the minimum requirements for Lion Server, but most servers require far more resources. Resources such as hard drive space, memory, and even items that aren’t part of the server itself but are part of the ecosystem that acts to supplement it are important to plan for in advance. For example, if ...
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