Preface: about this book, About this book – Apple Xsan 2 (Third Edition) User Manual

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Use this guide to learn how to use Xsan 2 to set up and

manage volumes on a storage area network.

This guide shows how to use Xsan 2 to combine RAID arrays into large, easy-to-expand
volumes of storage that clients use like local disks, but which are actually shared over
a high-speed Fibre Channel fabric. The guide is updated for Xsan 2 version 2.2 and
contains the following sections.

Chapter 1, “Overview of Xsan,” provides an overview of Xsan and how you can use it

to organize RAID arrays into shared volumes of storage.
Chapter 2, “Planning a Storage Area Network,” describes hardware and software

requirements, and offers SAN planning guidelines.
Chapter 3, “Setting Up a Storage Area Network,” shows the basic steps for setting up

a SAN.
Chapter 4, “Managing SAN Storage,” contains instructions for expanding storage,

creating folders with affinities, changing volume and storage pool settings, and
checking, defragmenting, and repairing SAN volumes.
Chapter 5, “Managing Clients and Users,” shows how to add client computers

to a SAN, mount volumes on clients, control client and user access to SAN files,
and control user space through quotas.
Chapter 6, “Managing Metadata Controllers,” contains information about managing

volume metadata controllers.
Chapter 7, “Monitoring SAN Status,” shows how to monitor and automatically report

the condition of a SAN.
Chapter 8, “Solving SAN Problems,” lists solutions to common problems you might

encounter.
Appendix A, “Combining Xsan Controllers and StorNext Clients,” contains

information to help you use Xsan metadata controllers with Quantum StorNext
clients.

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