![]() These worked well, went in a cupboard under the stairs and ran nicely "headless", with desktop access again being through Remote Desktop, or VNC. ![]() Over the past few years I'd been buying a number of Mac Mini servers, each with 16GB RAM and managed centrally through Apple Remote Desktop, as shown in the screenshot below. In addition, we're an Apple-centric family back home, with iMacs in most rooms, iPads and iPhones everywhere, so I thought it'd be a good opportunity to try out OS X Server as well, to see if I could add a bit of management to the whole network, and introduce things such as user and hardware policies, DNS and centralised software update, that sort of thing - as most people do on their home networks … (!) ![]() Like most Oracle tech enthusiasts, I've been a long-time user of tools such as VMWare and Virtualbox for desktop virtualisation, but over the past couple of years the scope and scale of Oracle Fusion Middleware has meant that a bit more of an "enterprise" approach had to be taken in my test lab. A little bit off-topic for once, but I thought one or two readers might be interested in the setup I've got back at my home office, for testing out and developing stuff around Oracle BI.
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