Howto Install Xsan
Planning Storage The most typical storage found in Xsan setups is the Apple XRAID. Any XRAID will work within an Xsan deployment. XRAID systems being used in an Xsan should have the maximum amount of...
View ArticleXsan: Sometimes You’re Going to Loose a Drive
Sometimes a drive fails, or a RAID controller goes down on an array with a redundant drive and the parity on a RAID must be rebuilt. In other words, if you loose a drive in a RAID 5, RAID 1, RAID 0+1...
View ArticleTroubleshooting AFP Performance on Xsan
Troubleshooting steps for an Xsan volume acting as an AFP Bridgehead: 1. Fragmentation – Run the SNFS defrag utilities per the article on Xsanity that I referenced earlier. This will most likely give...
View ArticleVmeter & Vguard for Xsan
Vmeter is another great product that you can bolt onto your Xsan from Vicom Systems. Vmeter allows you to get statistics of bandwidth allocation for Xsan clients. But Vmeter doesn’t stop there. It also...
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