User Guide

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3 Contents
Preface 7 About This Book
8 Notation Conventions
Chapter 1 9 Overview of Xsan
9 What Is Xsan?
10 Xsan Storage Area Networks
11 Shared SAN Volumes
11 Controllers and Clients
11 SAN Connections
12 How Xsan Storage Is Organized
12 LUNs (RAID Arrays)
13 Storage Pools
13 Volumes
14 Folders With Affinities
15 How Xsan Utilizes Available Storage
15 Metadata and Journal Data
15 Striping at a Higher Level
15 Security
16 Expanding Storage
16 Xsan Capacities
Chapter 2 17 Setting Up a Storage Area Network
18 Hardware and Software Requirements
18 Supported Computers
18 Supported Storage Devices
19 Fibre Channel Fabric
19 Ethernet TCP/IP Network
20 Directory Services
20 Outgoing Mail Service
21 Planning Your SAN
22 Planning Considerations and Guidelines
27 Connecting Computers and Storage Devices
27 Preparing LUNs (RAID Arrays and Slices)
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