The 2009 Apple Xserve, also known as the Xserve 3,1 (XS3,1), never supported the Intel Westmere Xeon family. However, the 2010 Mac Pro, Mac Pro 5,1 (MP5,1), did. Since their logic boards are similar, you can flash your XS3,1 with the MP5,1 firmware. This will enable you to use 6-core Westmere Xeons and after the […]
TL;DR: You can’t upgrade. Do a clean install with EFI ( it will do bios by default) and enable secure boot for efi. Boot from the Windows 11 ISO and use the BypassSecureBootCheck and BypassTPMCheck registry settings. Then install as normal. I have a Windows 10 VM on my Xserve 3,1 running ESXi 6.5 that
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Although the xserve is well past its prime I still have a couple that I use as part of my dev and lab environment. Although I don’t have a true need for production level uptime I do like to have it mirror a production level environment. As part of that I recently started playing with
TLDL: You appear to need BOTH samba and avahi installed with just the right magic in your config files or MacOS freaks out and finder stops responding till you do a hard shutdown of the machine. Shame on Apple big time for the way finder handles it! Config file info is below! When Since at
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TL;DR: You need to boot the vm then run sudo nvram boot-args=”-nehalem_error_disable” to disable the ECC memory check, then you can edit the .vmx file and add the hw.model, board-id and serialNumber to it. The Apple Xserve is already end of life, but as anyone that still has one will tell you it is still
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For specifics related to the Apple Xserve click here and look under Power Policy Although there is no new version of network shutdown for Mac if you have a Mac and want to be able to have it shut down and come back on this article is for you. In my initial testing I was
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TL:DR You need to become create a CA cert and then use that to sign your self signed cert. You can then add the CA cert to your system which will cause your other cert to be trusted. First some background. For years now I have had servers here at the house that are only
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TL;DR The lights on the older Apple Xserve Server line won’t work if you install anything newer than 10.7 on them. Using a program that connects to the lights USB controller you can restore their function. It isn’t quite as good as HWmond was, but it does pretty well. If you are using Macports (
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