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Managing san storage, Chapter 3 – Apple Xsan 1.1 User Manual

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Managing SAN Storage

This chapter shows how to expand, modify, check, and
repair SAN storage.

This chapter shows how to:

 Add storage to a SAN (page 52)

 Add LUNs to storage pools (page 53)
 Add storage pools to volumes (page 55)
 Add a volume (page 56)

 Create a folder with an affinity for a particular storage pool (page 57)

 Assign an affinity to a folder within a folder (page 58)
 Remove an affinity (page 59)

 Change storage pool settings (page 60)

 Rename a storage pool (page 61)
 Set access permissions (page 63)
 Choose the types of files to store on a storage pool (page 61)
 Set the storage pool stripe breadth (page 62)
 Set the method for choosing a connection (page 63)

 Change volume settings (page 64)

 Rename a volume (page 65)
 Set the storage allocation method (page 67)
 Set the block allocation size (page 66)

 Check volume fragmentation (page 67)
 Defragment a volume (page 68)
 Check a volume (page 68)
 Repair a volume (page 69)