Apple Xsan 2 - Manual (Page 68)

6 If the Volume Failover Priority pane appears, arrange the list so as few SAN volumes as
possible have the same metadata controller first on their failover priority lists, and then
click Continue.
7 In the Setup Complete pane, click Continue.
Xsan Admin displays a summary of your SAN configuration and the new volume is
mounted and ready to use in the Finder on all clients and metadata controllers.
For information about creating additional volumes, see “Add a volume to a SAN” on
page 73.
Step 10: (Optional) Set up SAN status notifications
Xsan is initially set to notify the administrator by email when the status of the SAN
changes. You can have notifications sent to additional email addresses or text-
messaging addresses using an SMTP server, and you can choose conditions that
trigger notification to each address.
If you don’t want to customize notifications now, you can do it later. For instructions,
see “Set up status notifications” on page 119.
Step 11: (Optional) Assign folders to affinity tags
If you want to force files to be stored in specific storage pools, assign the affinity tag of
the pools to a folder. Then, files that users put in the folder are stored only on storage
pools that have that affinity tag. For instructions, see “Set up a folder affinity” on page 77.
Step 12: (Optional) Set user and group quotas
You can set up quotas to control how much space on each SAN volume is used by
each user or group. For instructions, see “Set SAN user and group quotas” on page 100.
Use an Xsan administrator computer
The Xsan Admin app is installed with Mac OS X Lion Server, and you can use Xsan
Admin on any computer that has Lion Server to administer an Xsan 2.3 SAN remotely.
The administrator computer must be able to connect to all SAN computers via
your public intranet or the Internet. The administrator computer doesn’t need to be
connected to the SAN’s private metadata network or the SAN’s Fibre Channel network.
For information about using Xsan Admin to manage a SAN remotely, see “Manage
multiple SANs” on page 69.
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