ANYONE GOT FILESHARING TO WORK WITH XSAN

[sunshine]

The set up I have is that I have one qlogic switch, two gigabyte ehternet switches, two xserves, and two copies of xsan . I was wanting to set up one xserve as metada controller and the other one as the backup. I have the xserves connected to two different ethernet connections (one for meta data only and the other for network access ) and to the fibre switch. Clients just have one ehternet connection to access internet and the sharepoints. After that I would mount the volume on the servers. Create a sharepoint on one of the servers and let the clients (without xsan on it) access data through file sharing and to be able to put their data on the sharpoints. When I have it all set up, I’ve done this more than once, I connect to the sharepoints from the clients and try to copy data to the sharepoints everything stops. My clients lockup and my disk from the xraids disconnect from my metadata and backup controllers. Please help because xsan is giving me a terrible headache.

[sunshine]

ok, this is what I had to do. I suppressed rscn on the initiator ports on the qlogic. Then I have one xserve as a standalone server, serving as the metadata controller. I then gave my open directory master the xsan client role, which is doing the file sharing. I only mounted the volume on the server serving as the xsan client (master) not the metadata controller server (standalone). It seems when I had on primary and backup with both of them having the volumes mounted doing file sharing from the backup everything went to crap causing it to loose connections with the disk and causing failovers, maybe its a bug that wasn’t fixed with the two updates already sent out. I also don’t like having to create a seperate network for the metadata, so I didn’t on the configuration that is working for me right now, it’s all on 1 gb ethernet network along with the fibre switch too. One big headache now, maybe I can drink some Jack Daniels blended right here in Tennessee. I check post later to see if anyone has any input on this set up.

Sunshine

[Ross]

Are you doing this on Tiger and Xsan1.1?

I have had problems with Xsan1.1 and Tiger so far using two NIC’s. It seems when I turn off the second NIC (non metadata network) it is stable. But as soon as its back on… problems. I don’t experience this with Panther and Xsan1. I have just started testing with 1.1 and Tiger…. so I don’t have to much info but right now its not fun.

[sunshine]

Panther is on the server and clients. The servers are the only ones with xsan 1.1 installed and I’m doing file sharing off of one of the servers for my clients to connect to. I have nothing but issues with tiger and file sharing. It doesn’t want to connecto to sharepoints at all. On the server which is panther will show it connected, but on the mac with tiger, it just locks up on me. No fun with tiger yet.

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