XServe RAID in Windows environment
First of all, I am not a Mac person so please bear with me.
I recently inherited a XServe RAID, a fiber channel card with two fiber channel cables and NO Mac computer. So everything I have is Windows based. I have a Dell Poweredge 2850 with Windows 2003 Server and Dell Windows XP workstations. Installed the fiber channel card on the server. I connected the ethernet of the XServe RAID on a netgear switch and connected the fiber channel straight to the fiber channel in the server. The server is connected on the same Netgear switch via ethernet. I was able to connect to the XServe RAID thru the fiber channels and ethernet connections.
Utilizing the Raid Admin 1.5, I was able to set the network settings. Assigned the IP 192.168.2.155, 192.168.2.154, subnet 255.255.255.0 and named it Xserve1. No router or DNS were entered. With the servers Disk Management, I NTFS formatted 2.7TB on each array and assigned M and N drive letters. I then created folders and files on each array to see if they will take and it did.
Now I'd like to share the Xserve RAID on the Windows network via ethernet only. Is that possible? I didn't want to use the Xserve RAID as a server share but as an independent machine instead. If so, how can I do it? Thanks...
Bernard
I recently inherited a XServe RAID, a fiber channel card with two fiber channel cables and NO Mac computer. So everything I have is Windows based. I have a Dell Poweredge 2850 with Windows 2003 Server and Dell Windows XP workstations. Installed the fiber channel card on the server. I connected the ethernet of the XServe RAID on a netgear switch and connected the fiber channel straight to the fiber channel in the server. The server is connected on the same Netgear switch via ethernet. I was able to connect to the XServe RAID thru the fiber channels and ethernet connections.
Utilizing the Raid Admin 1.5, I was able to set the network settings. Assigned the IP 192.168.2.155, 192.168.2.154, subnet 255.255.255.0 and named it Xserve1. No router or DNS were entered. With the servers Disk Management, I NTFS formatted 2.7TB on each array and assigned M and N drive letters. I then created folders and files on each array to see if they will take and it did.
Now I'd like to share the Xserve RAID on the Windows network via ethernet only. Is that possible? I didn't want to use the Xserve RAID as a server share but as an independent machine instead. If so, how can I do it? Thanks...
Bernard
XServe RAID, Windows XP Pro
