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Chapter 4 Managing SAN Storage 57

Setting Up a Folder Anity

Every storage pool in a volume has an anity tag. You can use the tag to be sure that

les in a folder are stored on a specic storage pool. Files in folders without anities

are stored in the next available storage pool according to the volume’s allocation

strategy (ll, round-robin, or balance).

Some storage pools might be larger, faster, or better protected than others. Using

anities, you can make sure that an application or task that needs speed or extra

protection stores its les on a suitable storage pool.

Using Xsan Admin, you can choose an anity for an existing folder or create a folder

with an anity.

Action pop-up menu

To assign an anity tag to a folder:

1 In Xsan Admin, select File Management in the SAN Assets list.

2 Select the folder in the columns that list the volume’s contents, choose Set Anity

from the Action (gear) pop-up menu, and choose an anity tag.

If the folder doesn’t exist, choose New Folder from the Action (gear) pop-up menu,

enter a folder name, and choose an anity tag.

From the Command Line

You can also create a folder and assign it an anity using the cvmkdir command in

Terminal. For more information, see the cvmkdir man page.

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Apple Xsan User Manual Page 57