Apple Xsan 1.0 User Manual
Xsan administrator’s guide
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- Xsan Administrator's Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Overview of Xsan
- Setting Up a Storage Area Network
- Hardware and Software Requirements
- Planning Your SAN
- Connecting Computers and Storage Devices
- Preparing LUNs (RAID Arrays and Slices)
- Using the Xsan Admin Application
- Using the Command Line
- SAN Setup Summary
- Setting Up an Xsan Storage Area Network
- Renaming a SAN
- Deleting a SAN
- Setting Up Additional SANs
- Managing SAN Storage
- Managing Clients and Users
- Managing Metadata Controllers
- Monitoring SAN Status
- Checking Free Space on a SAN Volume
- Checking Free Space on a Storage Pool
- Checking User Quota Use
- Viewing Controller CPU and Network Utilization Graphs
- Setting Up Status Notifications
- Checking Status of File System Processes
- Viewing Logs
- Checking Volume Clients
- Checking for Fibre Channel Connection Failures
- Checking the State of Xserve RAID Systems
- Solving SAN Problems
- You Can’t Install the Xsan Software
- Some Computers Aren’t Listed During Setup
- You Can’t Connect to a SAN Computer From Xsan Admin
- Xserve RAID Systems Aren’t Accessible Over Fibre Channel
- You Can’t Mount a Volume on a Client
- You Can’t Add a Storage Pool
- After Slicing, Some LUNs Aren’t Listed in Xsan Admin
- Problems Using Command-Line Tools
- SAN User Sees Error Code –1425
- LUN Doesn’t Have as Much Space as Expected
- Combining Xsan and StorNext Clients and Controllers
- Using the Command Line
- Using the Shell Commands
- Notation Conventions
- The Commands
- Viewing or Changing Volume and Storage Pool Settings (cvadmin)
- Copying Files or Folders (cvcp)
- Checking or Repairing a Volume (cvfsck)
- Labeling LUNs (cvlabel)
- Creating a Folder With an Affinity (cvmkdir)
- Creating and Pre-Allocating a File (cvmkfile)
- Initializing a Volume (cvmkfs)
- Viewing Storage Pool Information (cvsginfo)
- Applying Volume Configuration Changes (cvupdatefs)
- Starting a Volume Controller (fsm)
- Starting a Port Mapper Process (fsmpm)
- Defragmenting a File, Directory, or Volume (snfsdefrag)
- Mounting an Xsan Volume
- Unmounting an Xsan Volume
- Viewing Logs
- The Configuration Files
- Glossary
- Index