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General Xsan Talk :: RE: Lion XSan or StorNext Upgrade?

matx — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:04:07 GMT

Author: matx
Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 3:04 pm (GMT -5)

Not sure about that. Contact Quantum or your reseller. If you have no luck getting those point release updates let me know. Maybe we can find some helpful people at Quantum.

General Xsan Talk :: RE: Lion XSan or StorNext Upgrade?

cinedigital — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:41:21 GMT

Author: cinedigital
Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 11:41 am (GMT -5)

Thanks matx, would StorNext subscription be needed to upgrade to 3.5.3 or is a point release upgrade covered by the existing license?

General Xsan Talk :: RE: Xsan 2.3, (2012) what's new / different from XSan 1.x (2006)

matx — Thu, 17 May 2012 15:27:39 GMT

Author: matx
Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 10:27 am (GMT -5)

You missed all the fun in 10.6 with Xsan 2 and now you want to play with 10.7 and the built-in Xsan 2.3 client?

General Xsan Talk :: RE: Lion XSan or StorNext Upgrade?

matx — Thu, 17 May 2012 15:25:08 GMT

Author: matx
Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 10:25 am (GMT -5)

Lion (10.7) Xsan controllers are compatible with StorNext FS 3.5.3 or StorNext FX 2.2 clients:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1517?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

General Xsan Talk :: Lion XSan or StorNext Upgrade?

cinedigital — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:19:48 GMT

Author: cinedigital
Subject: Lion XSan or StorNext Upgrade?
Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 7:19 am (GMT -5)

I'm looking at upgrading an existing small StorNext 3.5.1 SAN (RHEL 5 MDC & W2K8 Client) so that 5 Lion MacPro's can acces the 3 SAN volumes via Fibre Channel

The software is out of mainenance and the costs to upgrade StorNext to a version suitable for Lion's XSan client are quite high

It looks like an alternative would be to migrate to a XSan MDC running on a beefed up MacMini or s/h XServe

To keep filesystem compatability, would the migration first have to be done to V2.2 on Snow Leopard & then upgraded to Lion?

Would the W2K8 licence need to be replaced by a StornextFX licence or does a full StorNext licence also work with XSan?

Anyone have any thoughts about migrating from StorNext to XSan rather than the reverse?

TIA
Dave

Software :: Xsan Nagios Plugin

jahnieboi — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:43:20 GMT

Author: jahnieboi
Subject: Xsan Nagios Plugin
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 12:43 pm (GMT -5)

Has anyone configured Nagios for Xsan?

There was an article in Xsanity, regarding free plugins, but they are no longer free from the company Consol.

http://www.xsanity.com/article.php/20080312105449879

So I was wondering if anyone currently has a set up that they are hosting ... what are you using to monitor your Xsan with Nagios? Care to share please!! ;-P

Troubleshooting :: RE: File opened via AFP Xsan re-share causes XSAN restart/lockup

rberd — Thu, 10 May 2012 23:12:32 GMT

Author: rberd
Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 6:12 pm (GMT -5)

This has happened on again today when a staff member tried to open a Microsoft Word Document from the SAN on an iMac connected via AFP re-share. Again I fail to see why something like this could cause such a catastrophic problem - forcing both Primary & Backup Xsan MDC's to completely lockup forcing a hard shutdown. If anyone has any idea it would be greatly appreciated. If anyone would like to look at any of the logs please PM me, I will be glad to share at this point.

Troubleshooting :: RE: File opened via AFP Xsan re-share causes XSAN restart/lockup

rberd — Thu, 10 May 2012 00:35:28 GMT

Author: rberd
Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 7:35 pm (GMT -5)

I was able to run cvfsck - nv this evening and it reported that the file system status was clean, and that the file system read-only check completed successfully... no errors. So I guess the volume seems to be ok. Anything else I should try there? I'm thinking that maybe it is something on theAFP re-share server. I hate to create more problems by trying to to create the issue by opening the file on the re-share server.

Troubleshooting :: RE: Mismatched MDC's

pablogott — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:41:13 GMT

Author: pablogott
Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 1:41 pm (GMT -5)

Managed to get the controller out and back in again.

Now my concern is config files don't match on all the client computers. Is there a good way to fix it besides removing everyone and adding them back in?

Also, my secondary MDC won't connect to the right xsan admin. It'll connect, but only show itself in the computer list. How can I get my xsan admin healthy again?

Troubleshooting :: Mismatched MDC's

pablogott — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:47:44 GMT

Author: pablogott
Subject: Mismatched MDC's
Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 12:47 pm (GMT -5)

I was doing some basic maintenance/software updates so I failed over the volumes to the secondary MDC, updated and rebooted the primary, failed back over to the primary, rebooted the secondary MDC and when everything came back on something had gone wrong.

In Xsan admin (2.3/Lion Server) the list of computers no longer match up and it wouldn't let me fail back to the secondary MDC.

I could do the failovers fine from cvadmin.

I would like to remove the secondary MDC and add it back in for a fresh start. It doesn't show up in the primary MDC's xsan admin, so I don't know how else to force remove and add back in a controller that the configuration thinks is still there.

Also all the client computers are reporting "fsnameservers are incorrect"

So my question is, how can I cleanly remove a secondary MDC and add it back in without access from xsan admin?

And the real question is, how can I get my config healthy again?

General Xsan Talk :: RE: NAB 2012

keithkoby — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:16:39 GMT

Author: keithkoby
Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 10:16 am (GMT -5)

I should add that Promise and Active were both showing their dense 60 or so drive 4ru appliances (I joke with the active guys that their appliance actually looks like an appliance - an AC unit or something).

Promise had a dual mini mdc with sanlink setup on a cable managed rack solution that slid in and out and was cool. Similar to sonnet's stuff, but with sanlinks instead of cards mounted in pci-e to thunderbolt chassis.

I don't recall ever seeing a netapp booth on the floor at nab, but they were there as well showing something, god knows what. Flavorsys had a strawberry server in their booth. I'm excited and a little upset about what they are doing at the same time. I find myself falling into the court of the people who are saying we ought to stay street legal with what we do to interface with this next generation of NLE apps rather than hacking around...

Thunderbolt was all over the place. Intel had a wall display of all commercially available thunderbolt devices which was impressive. And they had an HP (or whatever windows laptop) on display with a thunderbolt port which should be released momentarily. Blackmagic had thunderbolt ports built in to their modular a/v router, I guess so you can just plug minis or whatever directly to the a/v router and not have to purchase separate thunderbolt IO devices for capture. There were also a few people showing long and short thunderbolt cables. I think the longest I saw was 100 ft. There were a couple 1 and 3 footers which is better for cable management and cheaper than apple's one size fits all.

Troubleshooting :: Xsan prompting for password for add, delete, move, etc

chrisbak3r — Tue, 08 May 2012 21:48:52 GMT

Author: chrisbak3r
Subject: Xsan prompting for password for add, delete, move, etc
Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 4:48 pm (GMT -5)

Over the past couple of months we've experienced some issues with access to our SAN. Users are being prompted for passwords, or they get errors stating that the SAN volume is in a read-only state and can't write the the SAN. I've spent the better portion of this day trying to troubleshoot it, but at a loss. We are running Server 10.7.3 and Client 10.7.3. There is not much in the way of logs, but did just stumble across this when trying to move a file into a directory:

Quote:

5/8/12 3:17:46.675 PM Xsan Admin: ERROR: SecKeychainItemCopyContent (0x0 0x0) error -25293

I've tried to reset, change POSIX permissions, and remove ACLs and reapply ACLs. Change ownership of POSIX through terminal to on group back to another. We still continue to see the issue of prompting for authentication. I need help! Thanks for any wisdom, thoughts, or opinions.

P.s. I found this similar thread, and tried that, but no luck. http://www.xsanity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15433

Software :: RE: Xsan Cache Memory limitation

hutchenstein — Tue, 08 May 2012 10:20:32 GMT

Author: hutchenstein
Subject: Update
Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 5:20 am (GMT -5)

Hi Guys,
Did you ever find out the answer to the query?
This thread just goes cold..
Just wondering.
Thanks,