Soy Daniel Carrillo Gaytan, born in San Anto, Tejas.
When I finished HS went to UW-MadTown. There I stayed for 33 years, learning.
I came back to the Tejas in February of 2006. My move took me to El Paso Texas.

I do Mac technology.

And my Mac development environment continues to grow. I do a lot of thin-client
development from home on 4 machines, 3 Macs customized specifically for multimedia
development and 1 PC that runs my son's Autodesk software, like 3D Studio Max.
But all development and proof of concept is posted to a Mac Leopard Server.

My Leopard Server is a 1U Rackmount Quad-core Xserve systems with 6 Gigs
of RAM. But it offers six DIMM slots using 1066MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM.
I bought it with a 128GB Solid State Drive (SSD) that doesn’t take up a valuable
drive bay. It is configured as my boot drive, which runs my 10.5 Server OS. It has
three hot-swap drive bays that support both SATA (Serial ATA) and SAS
(Serial Attached SCSI) Apple Drive Modules and offer up to 3 terabytes of internal
data storage, and you can configure each drive bay separately. Drive bays that
are not configured with a drive module ship with a nonfunctional blank drive carrier.
SAS drives are available separately from Apple. I have only one drive bay with a 1TB
SATA, it is backed up hourly with Time Machine to a 2.5TB external Maxtor hard drive.
My plan is to buy the other 3 drive bays and Mirror them for a larger development array.

I run Mac Server Admin's AFP, DNS, Firewall, FTP, iCal, iChat, Mail MySQL,
Open Directory (tied to two other Mac Servers, one in Madison, Wi., the other in San Anto, Texas),
QuickTime Streaming Server, and of course, WEB.

I have a business DSL line with ATT with 6 Mbps down, and 768 Kbps up, and my iPhone speaks
to my server at all times.

I’m planing to get a Quad-channel 4Gb Fibre Channel card. A
Fibre Channel PCI Express card is required to connect Xserve to
external Fibre Channel storage and/or Xsan networks. Apple's Fibre
Channel host bus adapter is a x8 PCI Express quad-channel 4Gb Fibre
Channel card. This card will support operations at 4Gb, 2Gb, and 1Gb
speeds. SFP connectors on the card allow use of copper or optical
cabling (with additional LC SFPs and optical cabling) and provide
direct connection to external Fibre Channel storage or switches over
distances up to 500m. It ships with four 2.9-meter 4Gb Active Copper
Fibre Channel SFP to SFP (Small Form Factor Pluggable) interconnect
cables.

The Fibre Channel PCI Express card offers leading
performance and compatibility with Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server and
Xsan. This will then lead to my wish-list in terms of a mass storage
solution which I plan to implement by 2010 years end for my mass
storage solution for Multimedia development. For mass storage
I plan to connect a Promise VTrak E-Class Fiber Channel RAID
subsystem to tie into my Xserve. The VTrak E-Class provides high performance
and high availability through 4Gb Fiber Channel and dual
active/active controllerr and the Apple Fibre Channel card is required for
connectivity. The Promise VTrak E-Class RAID subsystem
delivers outstanding performance, reliability, and expansion for
video and server applications. Configure with up to sixteen 7200-rpm
1TB SATA or 15,000-rpm 450GB SAS drive drives in a 3U rack-optimized
enclosure provides up to 16TB of raw capacity for assignment to one or
more RAID sets supporting all the major RAID levels including
hardware RAID 0, 1, 5 and 6.The high-availability design of the
Promise VTrak E-Class RAID subsystem provides dual active/active RAID
controllers with two 4Gb Fibre Channel ports and 2GB of cache per
controller, redundant power supplies, and redundant cooling modules.
An ideal storage solution for direct attached or SAN-based server and
workstation applications, the Promise VTrak E-Class RAID subsystem is
qualified with Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Final Cut Studio 2, and
Xsan 2.

Features:

  • 3U rack-optimized enclosure with 16 hot-swappable drive bays ;
  • Dual redundant active/active controllers 2GB DDR ECC cache per controller
  • 4Gb/s Fibre Channel ports (2 per controller)
  • RAID Levels 0, 1, 1E, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60
  • External SAS port (1 per controller) for storage expansion using the Promise VTrak expansion chassis
  • WebPAM PROe web-based management interface with Bonjour discovery
  • Qualified with Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, and Xsan 2; Apple MPIO capable

Thus my plan is to configure my Xserve with 2 Quad-channel cards with 2 PCI
Express riser for expansion slots 1 AND 2 in order to get a second Promise
VTrak E-Class Fiber Channel RAID mass storage devices, doubling my
storage capacity to 32TB.

Virtualized content is the way of the future, and I love multimedia development, but
I need the space to do it on. I am very versed in how to publish securely and remotely.
I like utilizing products like Final Cut Express, Dreamweaver, RapidWeaver, iWeb,
iPhoto, iTunes, OpenOffice, GarageBand, and use them all for that
"What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG)"
Honey of development. And the neat thing is that the Leopard server has a Unix
BSD under the hood, and I like how apple developed a Cocoa layer to administrate the
UNIX server components through a GUI interface. Or you can use the Command Line
Terminal (CLT), to tickle it pink. And UNIX is par none the best and
most secure web environment. My aim is continue doing pure virtual domain mount point
development. And this site show-cases the many virtual development sites that I manage
through this technology:

http://www.gaytannet.com

Kool,huh? In here you will see some of the most advanced Mac, Apache, MySQL,
PHP, PERL, PYTHON development integrated together to provide that new notion of
snap-on technology, proving that their does exist something that Just Works. Well-formed
object oriented technology and programming logic is great, but tying whole systems together,
that just work too, is my objective.

And that's what I do with open source technology. I love the field of development,
implementing open source Content Managed Systems (CMS), and it is FUN too.
So when you talk about Sharepoint, which is just Microsoft's glorified CMS, it is following
the big guys which implemented this technology with open source utilizing the LAMP
(Linux Apache MySQL and PHP) that threw light to this tunnel. Please look at Mambo, Joomla,
Drupal, WordPress to see what Open Source CMS development is all about. I think Drupal
won LINUX CMS of the Year last year.

Great stuff when you don't have the bucks to buy MS enterprise infrastructure.

Dan