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Use this guide to learn how to use Xsan 2 to set up and

manage volumes on a storage area network.

This guide shows how to use Xsan 2 to combine RAID arrays into large, easy-to-expand

volumes of storage that clients use like local disks, but which are actually shared over

a high-speed Fibre Channel fabric. The guide is updated for Xsan 2 version 2.3 and

contains the following sections.

Chapter Â 1, “Quick SAN setup,” has instructions for setting up a storage area network

(SAN) for the rst time using new computers with Mac OS X Lion or Lion Server, new

RAID systems, and a default SAN conguration.

Chapter Â 2, “Overview of Xsan,” provides an overview of Xsan and how you can use it

to organize RAID arrays into shared volumes of storage.

Chapter Â 3, “Plan a SAN,” describes hardware and software requirements, and oers

SAN planning guidelines.

Chapter Â 4, “Set up a SAN,” shows the basic steps for setting up a SAN.

Chapter Â 5, “Manage SAN storage,” contains instructions for expanding storage, creating

folders with anities, changing volume and storage pool settings, and checking,

defragmenting, and repairing SAN volumes.

Chapter Â 6, “Manage clients and users,” shows how to add client computers to a SAN,

mount volumes on clients, control client and user access to SAN les, and control

user space through quotas.

Chapter Â 7, “Manage metadata controllers,” contains information about managing

volume metadata controllers.

Chapter Â 8, “Monitor SAN status,” shows how to monitor and automatically report the

condition of a SAN.

Chapter Â 9, “Solve SAN problems,” lists solutions to common problems you might

encounter.

Appendix Â A, “Upgrade to Xsan 2.3,” explains how to upgrade from earlier versions

of Xsan.

Preface

About this book

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