Mac OS X Server

FDE on Mac OS X Server

I’ve rolled a few Mac OS X Servers into production either sitting on top of PGP or Checkpoint.  Other than the obvious issues of killing the ability to remotely reboot the thing it’s actually going really well so far.  If anyone else has any observations or has been doing this as well let me know as I’d be interested in comparing performance benchmarks and notes about other potential technical ramifications.  So far I’m seeing almost the same performance (about 5% degradation, which is easily made up by running faster drives), there are limited troubleshooting options and the issue with it booting to a password request rather than to the OS if you’re remotely rebooting – but nothing that (for most) is a show stopper…