Comment by thegagne
3 days ago
How is it not lights-out? You could remotely power on/off the servers (XServe only). Other Macs could not do this, as they did not have the separate LOM network interfaces, etc.
I managed a bunch of XServes for a while, they were incredibly good hardware. The Mac Server software kinda sucked (not the LOM stuff, it was as good as any of the LOM from Dell, which is to say, not amazing, but workable).
Sorry, I was referring to the automatic power-on feature described in the linked article.
Only on the Xeon models. The G4 and G5 didn't have any kind of LOM :(
My original comment was to add context to the article's first line:
To you and me, that sentence needs the word "again" appended to it.
To be fair, the number of users who ever touched an Intel Xserve is infinitesimally small in comparison to other Macs.