The RackMac mini provides front panel access to each Mac mini’s power switch and one of its USB-A ports, enabling you to switch each computer on and off, and connect a keyboard, mouse, USB drive, or other USB device. Rackmount Solution for Mac mini - Secures one or two minis inside a rugged steel 1U enclosure Ideal for Use in Server Rooms - 1U height and standard mounting. The enclosure’s design-updated to properly support 6-core Mac mini models-manages airflow through the computers to keep them as cool as ambient air in the rack as on a desk, enabling you to stack them close and stack them high for a Mac mini server farm. Youre reviewing: Mac Mini Security Mount Your Rating. Updated With Larger Openings to Support Proper Cooling of 20 6-Core Mac minis The Mac Mini Security Mount Kit Includes: - Quality aluminum VESA Mount bracket - Lock for securing the bracket - Set of Keys. How do you securely mount the minis? How do you keep them cool? How do you turn them on without pulling them out of the rack? How do you plug in a thumb drive for a quick update? Sonnet’s RackMac mini solves all these challenges and more!Ĭonstructed of rugged steel, the RackMac mini is a fully-assembled rackmount solution that supports one or two Mac mini® computers installed side-by-side into 1U of rack space, placing the computers behind a neat front panel. This fully-assembled rackmount solution for the latest line of Mac mini servers and computers supports the installation of one or two Mac minis side-by-side. The RackMac Mini is a fully-assembled rackmount solution supports the installation of one or two Mac mini computers side-by-side into 1U of rack space. However, integrating them into a rack poses some challenges. Mac minis are great general-purpose computers, and make sweet servers for many applications.
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Here are some final pics of the cabinet.RackMac mini for 2011, 2012, 2014, 2018 and M1 Mac miniġU enclosure to install and secure one or two Mac mini computers in a standard 19-inch rack. It works so well that all of the machines are back up and running within 45 seconds…. I have introduced these machines to the production environment, they run great… I had to add a 10Gb SFP+ Ethernet card to the XServe, and now I can NetBoot all 160 machines at the same time. Front panel USB 3.0 ports and power switch toggles options available.
However, there were many considerations to make, i.e., custom shelving, managing the exhaust of the minis, cooling, “Y” power cable splitters, etc., and Steve walked through the solution for each on his blog. Sliding rack mount adaptor that stores eight Unibody Apple Mac minis vertically. There isn’t a whole lot of information about where exactly the rack is being used, but Steve said the goal was to replace Xserve by coming up “with a way to get the same or better CPU core density into a standard 2′ by 2′ datacenter rack.” The custom 160 Mac mini rack provided him with 640 cores-compared to his 40 Xserve setup at 320 cores per rack. pointed us to this custom rack sporting 160 Mac Minis that was originally posted by Steve’s blog.