Apple Xsan 2 User Manual
Xsan 2 administrator guide
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- Xsan 2 Admin
- Contents
- Preface: About this book
- Chapter 1: Quick SAN setup
- Is this chapter right for you?
- Equipment you’ll need
- What you need to know
- SAN setup instructions
- Step 1: Unpack and install the SAN hardware
- Step 2: Connect the SAN networks
- Step 3: Set up the client computers
- Step 4: Set up the standby metadata controller
- Step 5: Set up the RAID systems
- Step 6: Create a metadata array
- Step 7: Set Up the primary metadata controller
- Step 8: Configure the SAN
- Step 9: Create a SAN volume
- Step 10: Add users and groups
- What’s next?
- Chapter 2: Overview of Xsan
- Chapter 3: Plan a SAN
- Chapter 4: Set up a SAN
- Connect computers and storage devices
- Prepare LUNs
- Use the server setup assistant to configure controllers
- Use Xsan Admin
- SAN and volume setup summary
- Set up an Xsan volume on a SAN
- Step 1: Set up the Fibre Channel network
- Step 2: Set up the Ethernet networks
- Step 3: Configure SAN computers to use a time server
- Step 4: Set up SAN users and groups
- Step 5: Set up RAID systems
- Step 6: Create a metadata array
- Step 7: Enable Xsan on clients and controllers
- Step 8: Configure the SAN
- Step 9: Create a volume
- Step 10: (Optional) Set up SAN status notifications
- Step 11: (Optional) Assign folders to affinity tags
- Step 12: (Optional) Set user and group quotas
- Use an Xsan administrator computer
- Rename a SAN
- Set up another SAN
- Manage multiple SANs
- Destroy a SAN
- Chapter 5: Manage SAN storage
- Chapter 6: Manage clients and users
- Chapter 7: Manage metadata controllers
- Set controller failover priority
- Switch to a standby metadata controller
- Find out which controller is hosting a volume
- List the volumes hosted by a controller
- Change a controller’s IP address
- Make a standby controller the primary controller
- Convert a controller to a client
- Access controller computers remotely
- Monitor controller status
- Chapter 8: Monitor SAN status
- Chapter 9: Solve SAN problems
- If you can’t connect to a computer using Xsan Admin
- If you can’t enable or install the Xsan software
- If computers aren’t listed in Xsan Admin
- If you can’t mount a volume on a client
- If you can’t unmount a volume on a client
- If RAID LUNs aren’t accessible over Fibre Channel
- If you have problems using command-line tools
- If a LUN doesn’t have as much space as expected
- If you can’t rename an Xsan volume in the Finder
- If you can’t add a storage pool
- If Fibre Channel performance is poor
- If a client can’t use a volume after a Fibre Channel interruption
- If you can’t add LUNs to a storage pool
- If the capacity of a larger LUN is Listed as 2 terabytes
- If file copying doesn’t finish
- If a volume unexpectedly restarts
- Appendix A: Upgrade to Xsan 2.3
- Before you begin
- Version compatibility
- Upgrade your SAN software
- Step 1: Back up your SAN volumes
- Step 2: Disable Spotlight on all volumes
- Step 3: Upgrade the primary controller to Mac OS X Lion Server
- Step 4: Upgrade the remaining controllers
- Step 5: Reestablish Open Directory replicas
- Step 6: Upgrade the SAN clients
- Step 7: Enable extended attributes
- Step 8: Change filename case sensitivity
- Step 9: Reenable Spotlight
- Upgrade SAN hardware and software
- Step 1: Back up your SAN volumes
- Step 2: Disable Spotlight on all volumes
- Step 3: Adjust volume failover priorities
- Step 4: Convert all standby controllers to clients
- Step 5: Unmount and stop all volumes
- Step 6: Connect new Macs to the SAN
- Step 7: Migrate the primary metadata controller
- Step 8: Migrate former standby controllers
- Step 9: Convert clients to standby controllers
- Step 10: Migrate or upgrade SAN clients
- Step 11: Enable extended attributes
- Step 12: Change filename case sensitivity
- Step 13: Reenable Spotlight
- Step 14: Recreate your MultiSAN configuration
- Appendix B: Combine Xsan controllers and StorNext clients
- Appendix C: Use command-line tools
- Use shell commands
- Notation conventions
- Install Xsan from the command line
- Xsan commands
- View or change volume and storage pool settings (cvadmin)
- Manipulate affinity tags (cvaffinity)
- Copy files or folders (cvcp)
- Check or repair a volume (cvfsck)
- Label, list, and unlabel LUNs (cvlabel)
- Create a folder and assign an affinity (cvmkdir)
- Create and preallocate a file (cvmkfile)
- Initialize a volume (cvmkfs)
- Apply volume configuration changes (cvupdatefs)
- Defragment a file, folder, or volume (snfsdefrag)
- Control the Xsan file system (xsanctl)
- Mount an Xsan volume
- Unmount an Xsan volume
- View logs
- Xsan configuration files
- Glossary
- Index