XSAN client on ADIC FS 2.4 Windows MDC

[Rupert Watson]

I have scoured the one page in the Admin guide and tried and tried to mount the ADIC Filesystem (Volume in Apple speak) on an XSAN client to no avail.

Noone seems to know how to do this for real.

Can anyone give me a step by step recipe for success for this?

[MattG]

Make sure your versions are compatible...

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301696

[Rupert Watson]

Cheers Matt

do you mean that I need to upgrade my SAN and all its clients from 2.4 to StorNext 2.5.1 build 47 or higher? Just to attach an XSAN client?

The problem I have is that I have a 15 client license on the ADIC MDC and I cannot connect the 1.1 XSAN client at all despite reading and re-reading the XSAN Appendix and ADIC 2.4 release notes.

Is this the "miscount" problem they refer to or amI not even getting to that base?

[Rupert Watson]

OK - after a day of digging and reading and testing we got the Adic volume on tbe Mac's desktop - rEad only, so far - but here is how I think we did it. Bear inmind this is a first draft and I have not flattened the Mac and gone back throught o sanity (no pun intended) the workflow to debug it. Also, the XML of the plist file is being reformatted by the HTML of the forum so do NOT copy it from here and try and use it.



Perform a full XSAN install on the Mac client and open Xsan Admin from /Server/Xsan

The Mac's name should appear in the left column of Xsan Admin and on the right you need to click on Setup

Select computers and double click the name or IP address of the Mac you are working on

enter the Xsan serial number from the Xsan license that came with Xsan and save it as prompted by the Xsan Admin

This will create a role.plist file in /Library/File Systems/Xsan/config that looks a bit like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>failoverPriority</key>
<integer>0</integer>
<key>license</key>
<string>xsan-010-000-r-jsw-rju-fht-mqs-rsh-xcs-j</string>
<key>role</key>
<string>CLIENT</string>
</dict>
</plist>

It will only look like this if you open it in Worldtext or Vi - if you double-click it it will look different as the Property List Editor.app will open it and display it differently. If this happens you can select the word License then click Dump (top right) to see it displayed as XML.

Copy the role.plist file to the desktop and uninstall Xsan.

Reboot

Install Xsan again; this time do a custom install and untick Xsan Admin

Open a terminal and type touch /Library/File Systems/Xsan/config/fsnameservers

Open /Library/File Systems/Xsan/config and open the fsnameservers file and add the IP address of the MDC - in my case it is 10.0.0.100.

Copy the role.plist file to /Library/File Systems/Xsan/config

Connect the Mac XSAN client to the metadata switch and give it a 10.x.x.x IP address

Ping the MDC and verify success

Open a terminal and type


/sbin/SystemStarter stop acfs



In addition you could find the process id of the fsmpm process and kill it by typing


cat /var/run/fsmpm.pid


this should output a number; this is the process id - use it in the next action.

if you are not logged in as root type


sudo kill -HUP <type the process id here>


Now type


/sbin/SystemStarter start acfs


The terminal output should indicate that Xsan is up

To be certain Xsan can see your MDC and ADIC File System type


/Library/Filesystem/Xsan/bin/cvadmin


You should see the ADIC file system stats.


To get the name of the ADIC File System gon to the Windows MDC and look in C:\SNFS\config and see what the .cfg file is called. That will be the name of the ADIC File System;

Use the name of the ADIC file sytem wherever you see <fsname> used from here on.

type

mkdir -p /Volumes/<fsname>

type

mount -t acfs <fsname> /Volumes/<fsname>


After a little while the volume should pop onto the Mac desktop.

We were using ADIC 2.4.1.build 59 and Xsan 1.1

[ezuhl]