San and volume setup summary – Apple Xsan 1.1 User Manual
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Chapter 2
Setting Up a Storage Area Network
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SAN and Volume Setup Summary
You’ll perform the following tasks to set up your first Xsan storage area network. Details
for each task are on the indicated pages.
1
Set up the Fibre Channel network (page 34)
2
Set up the Ethernet network (page 34)
3
Set up SAN users and groups (page 34)
4
Set up RAID arrays (page 34)
5
Install Xsan software on SAN computers (page 35)
6
Log in to the SAN (page 36)
7
Choose a controller and add clients (page 37)
8
Label and initialize available LUNs (page 39)
9
Create volumes (page 40)
10
Add storage pools to volumes (page 41)
11
Add LUNs to storage pools (page 43)
12
(Optional) Set up status notifications (page 44)
13
(Optional) Assign folders to storage pools (page 45)
14
(Optional) Set user and group quotas (page 46)
15
Start the volumes and mount them on clients (page 47)