XSAN Upgrade Help

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XSAN Upgrade Help

I have to do an upgrade from XSAN 2.2.1 OSX 10.6.8 to XSAN 3 OSX 10.8.4

I cannot find much info on XSAN 3. I have been looking at the 2.3 migration notes.

Current system is XSAN 2.2.1 on MDCs and 14 clients. All on OSX 10.6.8

3 xserves. 1 Primary MDC, 1 Backup MDC / OD Replica. 1 DNS and OD server.

I am putting together a list of questions to answer and generate a punch list. Any feedback on these questions would be appreciated.

1) Better to upgrade or blow up and start over?

2) If upgrading, go from 10.6.8 to 10.8.x or 10.7.x first.

3) What happens to existing licenses from 10.6.8 ?

4) We are running OD with ACLs. Does XSAN 3 upgrade keep the ACLs in XSAN admin?

Posted on Jul 15, 2013 1:32 PM

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Answer 1

Jul 15, 2013 7:34 PM in response to aaron-tm

Hi Aaron,

1. Upgrade

2. Do 10.7

3. There is no more license

4. Yes

Aaron,

These are the anawers to your question, I wish you the best of luck. I have done this several times and if one thing goes wrong its really difficult to get it working again. I would definately back your config files everything within /Library/FileSystems/Xsan/config/ I would also triple check your current settings so that you don't bring bad or wrong info to 10.7 and then to 10.8

If you need my help don't hesitate to shout back out.

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Answer 2

Sep 12, 2013 10:59 PM in response to aaron-tm

aaron-tm wrote:

I cannot find much info on XSAN 3. I have been looking at the 2.3 migration notes.

For future reference, the Xsan 3 upgrade instructions can be found in the Mountain Lion Server Advanced Admin guide.

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