TOUR: MacStadium - A DC full of 🍎 Computers

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  • @kcuzz99
    @kcuzz99 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +135

    This guy is probably losing his mind over the new m4 Mac minis!!!

    • @olliegazzard8279
      @olliegazzard8279 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

      yeah right, good luck with the new power button location…

    • @DovahDoVolom
      @DovahDoVolom 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

      @@olliegazzard8279 For a datacenter it would be nice as if they used a servo like they have here it could stay within the footprint of the device. That and i believe the power button on the new mac mini is not soldered to the board so if they wanted to take the time to remove the bottom plate they can just tap/use the wires that go to the button for software control. no servo needed and no soldering needed.

    • @imacg5
      @imacg5 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      @@olliegazzard8279 you just put them belly up. but I don't think they have that many power on/off needs in a data center. the issue here is about rack size.

    • @DurkMcGerk
      @DurkMcGerk 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@olliegazzard8279 rofl if they can't solve that "problem" they aren't very good

    • @t20594
      @t20594 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      They power cycle just need to control input power unless they need DFU

  • @mikehathaway2842
    @mikehathaway2842 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +55

    I leased a mini for years from them when I was done they mailed my machine to me. Great service it was the cheapest way to get a unix server with 16gb of ram in the cloud at the time.

  • @Saintel
    @Saintel 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +30

    A Mac Data center is insane. Just wow. Great work with this tour.

    • @mx338
      @mx338 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I think it's pretty boring compared to normal data centers.

    • @collodionpositive554
      @collodionpositive554 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@mx338 Naa, I spend all day travelling to various data centres and they are all the same and pretty boring, never seen Macs racked like this before

  • @Chewie133724
    @Chewie133724 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +23

    As impressive the effort of these DC guys is - it is at least as impressive how much resources are spent because Apple does not allow full virtualization of MacOS detached from hardware ...

  • @DozIT
    @DozIT 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

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

  • @reatcas
    @reatcas 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +5

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

  • @Timi7007
    @Timi7007 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    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!

  • @kristopherleslie8343
    @kristopherleslie8343 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    They need minisforum to develop a dock. That’s literally all they need to clean up that interface and wiring! Good stuff!😊

  • @awarepenguin3376
    @awarepenguin3376 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +13

    "Where do you work?" "Datacenter, but it's complicated."

  • @-iIIiiiiiIiiiiIIIiiIi-
    @-iIIiiiiiIiiiiIIIiiIi- 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    These will all be running JetKVM by the end of next year. I feel good about that.

  • @PedroMaiaM
    @PedroMaiaM วันที่ผ่านมา

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

  • @danbulmer
    @danbulmer 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

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

  • @Noname-iq1gz
    @Noname-iq1gz 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

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

  • @formerlycringe
    @formerlycringe 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +15

    Apple should get back into making XServes again...

    • @unified-it
      @unified-it  4 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      It would be really cool, but even at this scale, I don't think that would be a big enough use case for Apple to justify it.

    • @computersales
      @computersales 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      I don't think they would want to make repairable devices these days. I'd never put up with an apple server if everything is soldered down or firmware locked to the machine. Granted IBM is doing well with their highly specialized machines that are heavily locked down.

    • @edc1569
      @edc1569 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@unified-itmore use than the dumb-arse Mac Pro.

    • @nicholasryan7612
      @nicholasryan7612 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Yeah if they did with serval M4 Ultra Chips it a server component.

  • @grantwilcox330
    @grantwilcox330 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you for sharing.

  • @kristopherleslie8343
    @kristopherleslie8343 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

    So the new minis will require new design since button moved 😢

  • @tnowak
    @tnowak 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    TBH Mac Servers were a thing 20 years ago.

    • @unified-it
      @unified-it  3 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Xserve was really cool!

  • @jronmantech
    @jronmantech 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

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

  • @zach_ry
    @zach_ry 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

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

  • @kristopherleslie8343
    @kristopherleslie8343 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Excellent video been following them so long good to see their facility

  • @techtalkandtechunboxed
    @techtalkandtechunboxed 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    What a video you guys are doing great.

  • @janakaone
    @janakaone 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

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

  • @DPCTechnology
    @DPCTechnology 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Killer!

  • @CMBurns1000
    @CMBurns1000 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    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%.

    • @unified-it
      @unified-it  3 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Another interesting note: because of how power efficient the Apple Silicon Macs are they only use about 1/3 of the power available to them in each rack.

  • @jamieknight326
    @jamieknight326 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

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

  • @computersales
    @computersales 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    It's a very interesting setup. I'm kind of surprised in the diversity of hardware they're running though.

  • @Neberheim
    @Neberheim 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I wonder what it will take to revive Xserve.

  • @GradoGirl
    @GradoGirl 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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!

    • @unified-it
      @unified-it  3 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Interesting note the 2013 trashcan Mac Pros were actually a great success for them for that exact reason. They could build VMware clusters.

  • @tormaid42
    @tormaid42 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Their new solution is hilariously janky

  • @sarothto
    @sarothto 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I think this datacenter is efficiency and less maintenance

  • @BorisGarami
    @BorisGarami 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    With all my respect to the scale of these solutions, I cannot understand, why simply not use datacanter hardware and virtualize all of these resources.

    • @unified-it
      @unified-it  4 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

      Apple used to allow it with Vmware on Intel Macs. Now your are hardware limited to 2 VM's per Mac. TLDR: Because Apple.

  • @ZippyDooDa435
    @ZippyDooDa435 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    That can’t be true about the size of their network and their “largest” claim. They have 4 spines, that’s very basic.
    I’ve worked at hyperscalers with 32 super spine switches, in a 7 stage CLOS network. The individual pods had 4 spines, and there were a dozen pods per datacenter. All links were 100G, even down to the servers and were starting to deploy 400G links

    • @unicodefox
      @unicodefox 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      i think when they say they're the largest they mean they're the largest Mac DC

    • @xanderplayz3446
      @xanderplayz3446 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@unicodefoxIt’s a small market.

  • @kellymoses8566
    @kellymoses8566 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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?

  • @bobweiram6321
    @bobweiram6321 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @singhman_
    @singhman_ 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

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

  • @Hex00
    @Hex00 วันที่ผ่านมา

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

  • @daillengineer
    @daillengineer 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I cant understand the point to this when you can just have these at your own home or office for a lot less money

    • @UltimateArts13
      @UltimateArts13 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      But -oaS and the cloud!

    • @jasoncdavis0
      @jasoncdavis0 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      A lot of organizations use the MacStadium solution to run their iOS build and test pipelines at scale with dozens to hundreds of nodes.

    • @xanderplayz3446
      @xanderplayz3446 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I’d rather not pay $1000 for maybe an hour of usage per month which is spent compiling stuff.

    • @EvertG8086
      @EvertG8086 22 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@xanderplayz3446right, but once you do it’s yours forever.