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Finding out which controller is hosting a volume – Apple Xsan 1.1 User Manual

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Chapter 5

Managing Metadata Controllers

Finding Out Which Controller Is Hosting a Volume

Control of a particular volume can move from one controller to another as a result of
controller failover. You can use Xsan Admin to find out which controller is currently
hosting a particular volume.

To view a volume’s controller:

m

Open Xsan Admin, select the volume in the SAN Components list, and click Overview.

From the Command Line
You can also find out which controller is hosting a volume using the

cvadmin

command in Terminal. Open Terminal on the controller and type:

$ cd /Library/Filesystems/Xsan/bin

$ sudo ./cvadmin -e select

For more information, see the

cvadmin

man page or “Viewing or Changing Volume and

Storage Pool Settings (cvadmin)” on page 109.

The controller

that is hosting the

selected volume