Describe how Xsan metadata controllers communicate to implement failover
If the metadata controller on your SAN fails for any reason, another computer running Xsan can take over. Metadata controller…
Describe how to use Xsan Admin to configure an Xsan metadata controller
All computers on the local network that have Xsan installed are listed in the Computers pane. In this step you…
Define an Xsan storage pool
A storage pool is a combination of LUNs. In a small volume it might consist of a single RAID array,…
Describe how to set up a simple Xsan volume
1 Set up the Fibre Channel network (page 54) 2 Set up the Ethernet network (page 54) 3 Set up…
List features of Fibre Channel
– eliminates the bottlenecks of traditional network file servers that use Gigabit Ethernet and that are not fast enough to…
Describe how a cluster file system takes advantage of a SAN storage architecture
Cluster filesystem – a distributed filesystem that is not a single server with a set of clients, but instead a…
Differentiate between different storage architectures (3). What are some limitations of the first two?
directed-attached storage (DAS) In a DAS confi guration, disk drives or storage systems are connected directly to a server over…
Explain the benefits of storage networking
XSan provides fast, concurrent access to terabytes of centralized data. Combining it with Xserve RAID arrays and slices you can…