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Jan 4, 2015 8:31 PM in response to eriklhayesby Grant Bennet-Alder,Mac OS X Server software is not required.
see if these add any insight:
Fibre Channel hardware compatibility guide - Apple Support
Xsan: Compatibility of Fibre Channel storage devices - Apple Support
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Jan 5, 2015 5:46 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alderby eriklhayes,I Have the fiber channel utility installed and it shows a green light for the raid connection. When I try to install Xsan 2 it asks for a server. I cannot get past this. Any other direction?
Thanks,
Erik
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Jan 5, 2015 8:22 AM in response to eriklhayesby Grant Bennet-Alder,It appears Xsan requires a computer to keep track of the metadata (shown as an Xserve in this diagram):
Xsan Storage Area Networks
A SAN is a way of connecting computers and storage devices so computers have fast, shared access to files while making it easy for administrators to expand storage capacity.
An Xsan SAN consists of:
- Â Shared data volumes
- Â RAID systems that provide storage space that is protected against disk failure
- Â At least one computer acting as a metadata controller that combines RAID arrays and presents their storage to clients as volumes that behave like local disks
- Â Client computers that access storage in accordance with established permissions and quotas
- Â Underlying Fibre Channel and Ethernet networks
The following illustration shows the hardware components of an Xsan SAN.
from:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/0/MA609/en_US/Xsan_2_Admin_Guide.pdf
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by Grant Bennet-Alder,Jan 5, 2015 12:39 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder
Grant Bennet-Alder
Jan 5, 2015 12:39 PM
in response to Grant Bennet-Alder
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DesktopsDo you even need Xsan?
If you do not need multi-computer cooperation on this RAID, will Disk Utility see it and manipulate it as a RAID?
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Jan 5, 2015 12:52 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alderby eriklhayes,Disk Utility does not see the drives.
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Jan 5, 2015 2:16 PM in response to eriklhayesby Grant Bennet-Alder,What about Fibre Channel Utility?
