Xsan missing from preference pane

I do not know if this is related but yesterday I installed Yosemite on my computer. Today I noticed that my server drive was not showing on my desktop. This was the first time using the server drive so I'm not sure if it went missing immediately after installing Yosemite. In the past this normally meant that the drive got unmounted and I just go into Xsan and mount the drive again. This time when I went into System Preferences, Xsan is no longer there. I restarted and reconnected everything and nothing happens. I show that the Fibre is connected  by looking in the Fibre Channel Pane in System Preferences.
Now what is weird is I did some research and one guy's forum post said you can manually load Xsan by doing the following in my terminal:sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.xsan.plist
I did this and now the drive is mounted on my computer, BUT the XSan pane still does not show in my System Preferences. Even though I have access now to the drive I would still like to figure this out. Any ideas? Thank you

The Xsan pref pane does not exist in Yosemite. If you need to manually mount a volume on a client system, you can do "sudo xsanctl mount VolumeName". Same with unmount.
If your MDCs are on Yosemite, then you can download a profile from Server.app -> Xsan and install it on the Xsan client. That will configure and enable Xsan and mount your volumes.
If your MDCs aren't on Yosemite, then you may find that a Yosemite client can still mount the volume, but it will not be manageable in Xsan Admin. Also, that would not be a supported configuration. See Xsan: Compatibility of Xsan metadata controllers (MDCs) and clients.

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