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Apple Xsan 1.1 User Manual

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Contents

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You’re Unable to Mount a Volume on a Client

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Xserve RAID LUNs Aren’t Accessible Over Fibre Channel

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You’re Unable to Add a Storage Pool

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Some LUNs Aren’t Listed in Xsan Admin

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Some LUNs Are Listed Twice in Xsan Admin

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Problems Using Command-Line Tools

100

A Client User Sees Error Code –1425

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A LUN Doesn’t Have as Much Space as Expected

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Files and Folders Created by Mac OS 9 Computers Show the Wrong Creation Date

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You’re Unable to Rename an Xsan Volume in the Finder

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You’re Unable to Restart a Volume After Adding LUNs or Storage Pools

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Fibre Channel Performance Is Poorer Than Expected

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You’re Unable to Add LUNs to a Storage Pool

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A Client is Unable to Use a Volume After a Fibre Channel Interruption

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SAN Performance Declines Periodically and Predictably

Appendix A

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Combining Xsan and StorNext Clients and Controllers

103

Compatible Software Versions

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Licensing

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Terminology

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Adding Macintosh Clients to a StorNext SAN

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Using Xsan Controllers With StorNext Clients

Appendix B

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Using the Command Line

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Using the Shell Commands

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Sending Commands to Remote Computers

107

Viewing the Man Pages

108

Notation Conventions

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The Commands

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Viewing or Changing Volume and Storage Pool Settings (cvadmin)

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Copying Files or Folders (cvcp)

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Checking or Repairing a Volume (cvfsck)

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Labeling, Listing, and Unlabeling LUNs (cvlabel)

114

Creating a Folder With an Affinity (cvmkdir)

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Creating and Pre-Allocating a File (cvmkfile)

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Initializing a Volume (cvmkfs)

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Applying Volume Configuration Changes (cvupdatefs)

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Starting a Volume Controller (fsm)

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Starting a Port Mapper Process (fsmpm)

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Defragmenting a File, Directory, or Volume (snfsdefrag)

119

Mounting an Xsan Volume

119

Unmounting an Xsan Volume

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Viewing Logs