According to Andrew Laurence of the University of California at Irvine, “Xserve RAID created a new category when it came out: robust storage using extremely cheap (ATA) disks. The fading away of the Xserve RAID may indicate that the product had outlived its utility. On the MacEnterprise list, comments about the specs on the Promise RAID were almost entirely positive, although one poster had less-than-stellar experiences with other RAID models from Promise. In comparison, the Promise VTrak E-Class RAID features fully hot-swappable SATA or SASĭrives, dual hot-swappable RAID controllers (each one of which can run the entire RAID), support for more RAID levels than the Xserve RAID, and a 4Gb Fibre Channel interface instead of the Xserve RAID’s 2Gb interface. The Xserve RAID was increasingly long in the tooth, relying as it did on Ultra ATA drives instead of modern SATA and SAS drives, and suffering from controllers that weren’t active/active failover controllers (meaning that if one controller failed, you lost access to that side of the RAID, and replacing it required bringing the entire RAID down). The fact that Xsan 2 works with third-party RAID storage is particularly important because Apple has thrown in the towel on the Xserve RAID, quietly removing it from their Web site and directing potential customers to the Promise VTrak E-Class RAID Subsystem.
#Apple xsan storage mac os x
As far as I can tell, as with Mac OS X Server, Apple offers no upgrade discounts. Xsan costs $999 for each Mac attached to the shared file system Quantum’s versions are priced from $1,750 to $3,000 for Windows, Linux, and Unix versions. Xsan is actually an Apple-branded version of Quantum’s StorNext File System software, ported to work on Mac OS X, and sold at a significantly lower price. (Xsan’s previous version did support third-party RAID storage, but Apple didn’t emphasize that fact). Xsan 2 offers easier setup and deployment, enables users on a single workstation to access multiple Xsan volumes at the same time, supports Spotlight searching, and is now qualified to work with third-party RAID storage.
#Apple xsan storage update
#1622: OS feature survey results, Continuity Camera webcam preview, OWC miniStack STXĪpple has released an update to Xsan, the company’s shared SAN (storage area network) file system that enables enterprises to group together storage attached to individual servers as part of a single collective storage pool.
#Apple xsan storage how to
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