XSAN Server

Hello,
I currently have an XSAN Server that connects all our computers to the network. I have a external hard drive (for Archive Purpose) connected to the Server throught fire wire. The problem I am running into is sharing the External Drive so all the computers can see the external drive as well as read and write. So essentially I would like to have the External Hard Drive show up on all the Computers instead of having to address the main computer on the server. Any thoughts? Within the server we have multiple users and groups. Do I have to create a new group?
Thanks

You can't do this with a FireWire drive.
FireWire doesn't support multiple hosts trying to access the same device at the same time.
If you're using FireWire then your only option is to have the host it is connected to act as a network file server to make it available over the network (so clients write to the server over the network, the server writes to disk over FireWire).

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Hi. I'm having trouble with creating my first Volume in XSan.
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LUN 0 = 927GB
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XSan 1.3 Build 8M116
Xsan Client Version 2.7.200 Build 92.1
Xsan Server Version 2.7.200 Build 92.1
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FirstVolume(Block Alloc Size=4kb, Allocation Strategy=Round Robin, Windows ID Mapping=Generate IDs from GUID)
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StoragePoolMetaData(Journal Data only, Stripe Breadth=256, Multipath Method=Rotate)
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StoragePoolUserData(User Data Only, Stripe Breadth=256, MultiPath Method=Rotate)
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LUN1(Capacity=927GB, Dev Name=/dev/rdisk2, LUN ID=1, WWN:50:00:39:30:00:01:5C:BB:1)
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I dosn't matter, if the LUNs are Mirror or Stripe, allways failes with the creation of the first volume.
Any help would be apriciated. Thanks alot.
Best regards,
Svavar O
[email protected] - Reykjavik - Iceland
PowerMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7)
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Hi.
Well, at first.
But I moved 2x of the disks to the second controller.
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As I need to migrate 2TB into the newly bought XSAN setup.
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Best regards,
Svavar O
Reykjavik - Iceland
PowerMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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Hollywood-DI

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There is a 3-day stornext course which I found very usefull.
For day to day use, the cvadmin command is your friend. So I suggest with studying on the man page for it. when you want to create and change volumes, you need more commands: cvlabel, cvmkfs, cvupdatefs, cvfsck.
These manpages are actualy acurate. I can imagine to be overwhelmed with all the options. At first you need to understand the context. The mentioned course will help you with this. This is complex material. You have to dive into it. There is no shortcut.
For tuning and creating a new volume the cvfs_config manpage is usefull.
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HTH
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