New XSAN Buildout - 10.5.8 vs. 10.6 for MDC and clients

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New XSAN Buildout - 10.5.8 vs. 10.6 for MDC and clients

I am planning on building out a large XSAN utilizing Promise RAIDs, and 2 Xserve MDC's, with a few Final Cut Workstations on Qlogic 5802 switches. I was planning on using Apples 10.6 latest OS, with latest XSan 2.2. I'm being told if I really want rock solid performance I should stick with all my Final Cut clients and Xserves at 10.5.8, because there are some issues that exist if we I use the latest versions of OS and client. Can someone please comment on the validity of that statement. I'm hesitant to install an operating system that is over a year out of date.

Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Jul 7, 2010 10:20 AM

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Jul 8, 2010 6:24 AM in response to Maxwell Frome

I'm actually wondering about something similar. I have 2 brand new Xserves running 10.6.3 and a Xsan 2.2 connected via the fiber. The FCP clients that connect up are all on 10.5.8 also connected in via the fiber. I have not had any issues with the clients being on a lesser version of the OS but I am wondering if I upgrade the server to 10.6.4 will anything break??? I may upgrade one client today to 10.6.4 and see how that goes first.

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