User Guide

4 Contents
27 Outgoing Mail Service
27 Planning Your SAN
28 Planning Considerations and Guidelines
34 Planning the Ethernet TCP/IP Network
35 Using a Private Metadata Network
35 Using Switches Instead of Hubs
35 Planning the Fibre Channel Network
35 Verifying Base Fibre Channel Performance
36 If Your Fibre Channel Fabric Is Running Slower Than Expected
36 Configuring RAID Systems
36 Installing the Latest Firmware
37 Connecting RAID Systems to an Ethernet Network
37 Choosing RAID Levels for LUNs
37 Adjusting RAID System Performance Settings
Chapter 3 39 Setting Up a Storage Area Network
39 Connecting Computers and Storage Devices
39 Preparing LUNs
40 Using Server Assistant to Configure Controllers
40 Managing Users and Groups with Xsan Admin
40 Using an Existing Open Directory Server
40 Using Another Directory Server
41 Using Xsan Admin
41 Installing Just the Xsan Admin Application
41 Connecting Through a Firewall
41 Xsan Admin Preferences
41 Getting Help
41 SAN and Volume Setup Summary
42 Setting Up an Xsan Volume on a Storage Area Network
51 Setting Up an Xsan Administrator Computer
51 Renaming a SAN
52 Removing a SAN
52 Managing Multiple SANs
52 Setting Up Additional SANs
Chapter 4 53 Managing SAN Storage
53 Adding Storage
54 Preparing LUNs
54 Finding the Drive Modules That Belong to a LUN
55 Adding LUNs to a Storage Pool
56 Rearranging Fibre Channel Connections
57 Adding a Storage Pool to a Volume
58 Adding a Volume to a SAN