Hi !
As some of you might know, Apple has discontinued it's xServes server as of
january 31st 2011.
We have a server rack with 12 xserves ranging from dual G5's to dual
quand-core xeon lastest generation, 3 xserve-raid and one activeraid 16 TB
disk enclosure. We also use xSan to access a shared file system among the
servers. Services are run from this shared filesystem, spreaded across the
servers. Some LUNs on the fiber channel network are accessed directly and
mounted on a case-by-case basis. Those raid volumes are partitioned with a
GUID partition map, and apple_label type volumes. So they can be mounted by
name with mount_hfs.
We were on the verge on upgrading at least 6 of our server in a separate
location (as a backup-site), with another SAN, same aplication etc. But this
announce has come put a little delay. We do have several servers running
CentOS (about 10 or so), on intel server platform.
Now with this said, I am searching for documentation on operating a SAN
under linux. We are looking at Quantum StorNext FS2 product for the SAN
itselft.
And I am searching info about accessing volumes on a fiber channel network
by label. I know I can label individual ext3 partition, but how to do so on
a raid array via fiber channel ?
Basicly, I search for a linux starter guide to fiber channel storage.
Thanks for any insight.
Nicolas
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