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Hi, thanks for this amazing video. Please next time make a video of how to remotely access my console from a different network.

Hi, are there any keyhole mounting holes built into the back of the unit to be able to hang it on a wall with 2 screws? I cannot find pictures of the back of the unit.

Glad it's there for people that need it but I still don't understand how this is useful. Linux is king for a reason. If you have something that only runs on a mac you should probably change your process. I would never host anything that needed high reliability this way. Modern servers have a lot of thought and effort put into redundancy and reliability. Consumer stuff is great for my homelab but for anything professional you really should be doing it the proper way. Had a PSU fail in my home server. Didn't have to turn the machine off or anything. Just pop the clip and slide out the old one and put in a new one. If any of these Mac machines ever had a similar issue you are looking at hours of work and downtime. This just makes no sense to me.

MacStadium need a new kit for M4 XDDDD M4 Pro can use TB5 to make 100Gbps NIC possible. Next time, we will see the M4 Pro Mac mini cluster???

I bet there are going to be a lot of used Mac Minis showing up from these guys, as they upgrade to M4 models 😁

Apple needs to create rack-based mac XD

these guys are behind the times

really clean video, thank you! Would be great to have such a qualified person in my hood....

Pi* KVM

Forgive me as I may have missed it, but under VLANs you created a "security network". What do you plan on using that for? Is that for your cameras?

Can i use Pi-Hole and DNS Shield in the same network? I want as much comprehensive coverage as I can get

Awesome !

I learned a lot from this, and i think what helped was the tone of the voice and detailed explanation. I would recommend if the guest speed limit is per device, set the speed to max 5mbit down and 3mbit up if it was for a coffee shop.

but why?

I just love these behind the scenes look with plenty of answered questions and in general just an awesome generosity of fascinating details! Genuinely, thank you! 🙏 Don’t really give a shit about Mac’s or specifically what’s running as long as it’s offering a really cool sneak peek into an operation and it’s interesting technical solutions I can’t help by being fascinated by it. 🙏👌🤓 🫶👋✌️🖖 Lastly, awesome questions btw 👏👏

Awesome DIY Mac mod servers! Those custom 3D printed enclosures or RPi KVM r very cool besides everything else!👍And now with the M4 Mac Minis it's gonna be even better.

I'm surprised to see everything still in their retail cases. I thought they would have them stripped with raw boards on skeleton racks like you see in Bitcoin mines for density and cooling.

Surely it would make more sense to take them out of their housing and use zeer cooled racks?

Apple needs to bring back XServe and rename it as MacServe

When I was an intern at AWS I was shocked that they also use physical macs for their Mac VMs. I thought AWS of all people would have custom hardware. But no it’s all just consumer grade macs in a data center!

I wonder if that new storage system they're working on is Ceph. I worked on Ceph and OpenStack until recently (I doubt I'll be working with OpenStack anytime soon, if ever again). I just wonder though how an OpenStack system would be for provisioning these systems.

All that work because apple won’t make a server (or allow installation on other hardware)

Thrilled to see our RackSolutions products powering MacStadium’s state-of-the-art data center! 🙌 From HyperShelf thermal management to our exclusive Server Racks, it’s great to see how our solutions support their cutting-edge Apple infrastructure. Excited for the future of Apple cloud hosting!

I have one main question -- how do they work around the fact that Apple doesn't support ECC memory on any of the apple silicon macs?

I like how in the setup vudeo, you didn't even set it up.

And now Cisco has ended its entire UCS line since Broadcom screwed over VMWARE and DESTROYED IT!!! RIP VMware...

This is so stupid that we are doing this in the age of virtualization.

Too cool. Great vid. Thanks.

I don't understand why Apple isn't capitalizing on the data center market. Apple silicon offers unbelievably low power consumption over performance, translating into massive energy savings.

Thank you for sharing.

What was the purpose of disabling IPv6 in the global network?

Weak signal from this product.

1:20 Camera knows what he's doing. Give him a raise

0:03 Why would anyone build a datacenter in Las Vegas? Aren't heat and electricity consumption critical factors in data center operations?

This is by far the coolest datacenter video i've seen this year.

We run a mostly full UniFi stack at work across all sites (Wi-Fi, Switching, CCTV, Access Control, Telephony, Digital Signage) - however, we use FortiGate for firewalls. I am looking into the EFG and UXG-Pro, however I do find their firewall offerings are lacking in many features that the FortiGate has - albeit we don't use many of the features, we do use some, which I am not willing to give up. I believe they also need to rework the way UniFi does firewall rules and objects / addresses - I find it much more confusing than a FortiGate or even a Watchguard.

I wonder what it will take to revive Xserve.

The density advantage with the new Mac mini would be huge!

beside the pi3 and servo whats the reset of the kvm hardware they are using?

3 to 5ms latency is not very impressive for Pure arrays. They can actually get consistent sub-millisecond latency. Maybe he meant 0.3 to 0.5ms latency?

quite fascinating actually. They bucked the norm and created something amazing.

The new cooling system was completely redesigned on the m4 I wonder how they will figure out cooling on the new model.

Peak power draw of a m4 Mac mini is 25w, pretty crazy.

That is a well thought out solution with lots of details. Very impressive. Also a very knowledgeable manager and great presentation. This video didn't feel 23 minutes long, great pacing!

It's unfortunate that the Mac Pro's software restricts users to only two virtual machines per system... Just imagine the possibilities of a pure Mac Pro cluster!

I have a theory that Apple moved the power button to the bottom to prevent macstadium from using this servo 😂

TBH Mac Servers were a thing 20 years ago.

Seems odd they talk about keeping it simple and then proceed to show something extremely complex. It’s all very impressive none the less.

I wonder how much they would save on their energy bill, if they would use apple silicon Mac’s. And with m4 they could cut their rack size roughly to 50%.

Waiting for a reaction video of when they find out where the new Mac Mini’s power button is located!