Apple Xsan 2 User Manual download pdf (Page 14)

14 Preface About this book

Notation conventions

The following conventions are used in this book where command-line tools are described.

Notation Indicates

fixed-width font

A command or other text entered in a Terminal

window

A shell prompt

[text_in_brackets]

An optional parameter

(one|other)

Alternative parameters (enter one or the other)

italicized

A parameter you must replace with a value

[...]

A parameter that can be repeated

<angle_brackets>

A displayed value that depends on your SAN

conguration

1 2 ... 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ... 164 165

Administrator Guide 1
Contents 3
Chapter 3: Plan a SAN 4
Chapter 4: Set up a SAN 4
Contents 5 5
6 Contents 6
Contents 7 7
8 Contents 8
About this book 11
What’s new in Xsan 2 12
More information 13
Notation conventions 14
Quick SAN setup 15
Equipment you’ll need 16
What you need to know 16
SAN setup instructions 17
Step 8: Congure the SAN 23
Step 9: Create a SAN volume 27
What’s next? 30
Overview of Xsan 31
Xsan SANs 32
Shared SAN volumes 33
Metadata controllers 33
Network connections 33
How Xsan storage is organized 34
Storage pools 35
Anities and anity tags 35
Folders with anities 36
Metadata and journal data 37
Stripe at a higher level 37
Security 38
Expand storage 38
Xsan capacities 38
Plan a SAN 40
Supported storage devices 41
Fibre Channel fabric 41
Ethernet TCP/IP network 42
Directory services 43
Plan your SAN 44
Chapter 3 Plan a SAN 45 45
Chapter 3 Plan a SAN 47 47
Chapter 3 Plan a SAN 51 51
Use switches instead of hubs 52
Congure RAID systems 53
Choose RAID levels for LUNs 54
Chapter 3 Plan a SAN 55 55
Set up a SAN 56
Use Xsan Admin 58
SAN and volume setup summary 58
Step 5: Set up RAID systems 62
Step 9: Create a volume 65
Rename a SAN 69
Set up another SAN 69
Manage multiple SANs 69
Destroy a SAN 70
Manage SAN storage 71
Prepare LUNs 72
Add a volume to a SAN 73
Add LUNs to an anity tag 75
Set up a folder anity 77
Change a folder’s anity 78
Remove an anity 79
Set the block allocation size 80
Enable extended attributes 81
Change storage pool settings 83
Maintain SAN volumes 84
Rename a volume 85
Check volume fragmentation 85
Defragment a volume 85
command-line tool to check 86
Repair a volume 87
Check RAID devices 88
Destroy a volume 88
Manage clients and users 89
Add an Xsan serial number 91
Mount a volume on a client 92
Change mount options 93
Manage users and groups 93
Add SAN users 94
Delete SAN users 95
Create groups 95
Delete groups 96
Change group membership 96
Unmount a volume on a client 98
Remove a client from a SAN 99
Set SAN user and group quotas 100
About Xsan quotas 102
Check user quota status 103
Help users check quotas 104
Connection 105
Action menu 105
Manage metadata controllers 107
Select to view 108
in SAN 108
Add button 108
$ sudo cvadmin -e select 110
$ sudo changeip oldIP newIP 111
Monitor controller status 114
Monitor SAN status 115
Check volume status 116
Monitor RAID devices 116
Check free space 117
Graph SAN resource usage 118
Set up status notications 119
View Xsan logs 120
Check volume clients 121
Solve SAN problems 122
$ sudo cvadmin 123
If le copying doesn’t nish 125
Upgrade to Xsan 2.3 127
Version compatibility 128
Upgrade your SAN software 128
Step 9: Reenable Spotlight 132
Step 13: Reenable Spotlight 139
Combine Xsan controllers and 140
StorNext clients 140
Use command-line tools 142
Â -verbose parameter: 144
Xsan commands 145
Copy les or folders (cvcp) 149
” below 150
Option Description 151
Initialize a volume (cvmkfs) 153
Mount an Xsan volume 157
Unmount an Xsan volume 157
Xsan conguration les 158
Glossary 159
160 Glossary 160
Glossary 161 161
Index 163 163
164 Index 164
Index 165 165

Comments to this Manuals

No comments

Apple Xsan 2 User Manual Page 14

Comments to this Manuals

Related products and manuals for Software Apple Xsan 2