Apple Xsan 2 manuals

Apple Xsan 2 User Manual (165 pages)

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Table of contents

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

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