Chapter 6. Maintenance and Troubleshooting

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Time

This chapter takes approximately 2 hours to complete.

Goals

Add and remove metadata controllers

Change the IP address of a metadata controller

Use Xsan Admin to monitor the Xsan volume

Use available tools to monitor an Xserve, an Xserve RAID, and a Promise RAID

Identify the way Xsan metadata controllers communicate to implement failover

Repair a SAN volume using the command line

Use common SAN troubleshooting techniques

Now that you have a fully functioning SAN, you’ll need to use the tools that will keep that SAN in good shape. No matter how carefully you planned and deployed your SAN, issues will still arise that require your attention. Some may be as simple as a user not being able to log in to ...

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