Apple Xsan 1.1 - Manual (Page 84)

84 Chapter 5 Managing Metadata Controllers
Finding Out Which Controller Is Hosting a Volume
Control of a particular volume can move from one controller to another as a result of
controller failover. You can use Xsan Admin to find out which controller is currently
hosting a particular volume.
To view a volume’s controller:
m Open Xsan Admin, select the volume in the SAN Components list, and click Overview.
From the Command Line
You can also find out which controller is hosting a volume using the
cvadmin
command in Terminal. Open Terminal on the controller and type:
$ cd /Library/Filesystems/Xsan/bin
$ sudo ./cvadmin -e select
For more information, see the
cvadmin
man page or “Viewing or Changing Volume and
Storage Pool Settings (cvadmin)” on page 109.
The controller
that is hosting the
selected volume