Apple Xsan 1.0 - Manual (Page 38)

38 Appendix Working With StorNext Clients and Controllers
Adding Macintosh Clients to a StorNext SAN
If you already have a StorNext File System on a storage area network, you can add a
Macintosh client using Xsan.
To add a Macintosh Xsan client to a StorNext SAN:
1 Connect the Macintosh computer to the SAN’s Ethernet and Fibre Channel networks.
2 Install the Xsan software on the Macintosh computer.
3 License the Xsan software on the Macintosh client.
Open Xsan Admin on the client (in /Applications/Server) and connect to the local
computer. Then select the SAN in the SAN Components list, click Setup, and click
Computers. Double-click the client in the list (in the center of the window) and enter
the serial number.
The serial number is on a sticker on the Xsan installer disc sleeve.
4 Go to an existing StorNext client on the SAN and print a copy of its fsnameservers file.
On SGI IRIX, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, and Linux StorNext clients, you can find the file in:
/usr/cvfs/config/
On Windows clients, you can find the file in:
\%cvfsroot%\config\
where %cvfsroot% is the directory in which you installed the StorNext software.
5 Back on the Macintosh client, use a text editor such as vi to create a copy of the
fsnameservers file and save it in
/Library/Filesystems/Xsan/config/
Note: To avoid problems caused by different systems using different end-of-line
characters, don’t copy the fsnameservers file to the Macintosh client. Instead, use a text
editor on the Macintosh to recreate the file.
6 Force the Xsan software on the Macintosh to read the new fsnameservers file.
Either restart the Macintosh computer or open Terminal and type this command:
$ sudo kill -HUP ‘cat /var/run/fsmpm.pid’
7 Mount the file system.
If the file system doesn’t mount automatically, type this command in Terminal:
$ sudo mount -t acfs fsname mountpoint
where fsname is the name of the file system and mountpoint is the location where the
file system appears on the Macintosh client ( /Volumes/SanVol , for example).
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