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Setting Up a SAN Volume
This chapter contains step-by-step instructions for setting
up your first Xsan volumes.
Follow the steps in this chapter to set up shared Xsan volumes on a storage area
network.
Setup Summary
You’ll perform the following tasks to set up your first Xsan storage area network. Details
for each task are on the indicated pages.
1 Set up the Fibre Channel network (page 28)
2 Set up the Ethernet network (page 28)
3 Set up SAN users and groups (page 28)
4 Create RAID arrays (page 28)
5 Install Xsan software on SAN computers (page 29)
6 Log in to the SAN (page 29)
7 Choose a controller and add clients (page 30)
8 Label and initialize available LUNs (page 31)
9 Create volumes (page 32)
10 Add storage pools to volumes (page 33)
11 Add LUNs to storage pools (page 33)
12 (Optional) Set up status notifications (page 34)
13 (Optional) Assign folders to storage pools (page 34)
14 (Optional) Set user and group quotas (page 35)
15 Start the volumes and mount them on clients (page 36)
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