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Appendix c: use command-line tools – Apple Xsan 2 User Manual

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Contents

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Step 2: Disable Spotlight on all volumes

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Step 3: Upgrade the primary controller to Mac OS X Lion Server

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Step 4: Upgrade the remaining controllers

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Step 5: Reestablish Open Directory replicas

130

Step 6: Upgrade the SAN clients

131

Step 7: Enable extended attributes

131

Step 8: Change filename case sensitivity

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Step 9: Reenable Spotlight

132 Upgrade SAN hardware and software
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Step 1: Back up your SAN volumes

133

Step 2: Disable Spotlight on all volumes

133

Step 3: Adjust volume failover priorities

133

Step 4: Convert all standby controllers to clients

134

Step 5: Unmount and stop all volumes

134

Step 6: Connect new Macs to the SAN

134

Step 7: Migrate the primary metadata controller

135

Step 8: Migrate former standby controllers

136

Step 9: Convert clients to standby controllers

136

Step 10: Migrate or upgrade SAN clients

138

Step 11: Enable extended attributes

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Step 12: Change filename case sensitivity

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Step 13: Reenable Spotlight

139

Step 14: Recreate your MultiSAN configuration

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Appendix B: Combine Xsan controllers and StorNext clients

140 Compatible software versions
140 Terminology
141 License
141 Add StorNext clients to an Xsan SAN

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Appendix C: Use command-line tools

142 Use shell commands
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Send commands to remote computers

143

View the man pages

143 Notation conventions
143 Install Xsan from the command line
145 Xsan commands
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View or change volume and storage pool settings (cvadmin)

149

Manipulate affinity tags (cvaffinity)

149

Copy files or folders (cvcp)

150

Check or repair a volume (cvfsck)

151

Label, list, and unlabel LUNs (cvlabel)

152

Create a folder and assign an affinity (cvmkdir)