Apple Xsan 1.0 - Manual (Page 29)

Chapter 2 Setting Up a Storage Area Network 29
SAN 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 30)
2 Set up the Ethernet network (page 30)
3 Set up SAN users and groups (page 30)
4 Set up RAID arrays (page 30)
5 Install Xsan software on SAN computers (page 31)
6 Log in to the SAN (page 31)
7 Choose a controller and add clients (page 32)
8 Label and initialize available LUNs (page 33)
9 Create volumes (page 34)
10 Add storage pools to volumes (page 35)
11 Add LUNs to storage pools (page 35)
12 (Optional) Set up status notifications (page 36)
13 (Optional) Assign folders to storage pools (page 36)
14 (Optional) Set user and group quotas (page 37)
15 Start the volumes and mount them on clients (page 37)
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