FUSION FIBRE-FOR-4 ™ Fusion RX1600Fibre Storage System + Fibre Channel Adapters + Fiber Optic Cables + 4-Seat metaSAN License Mac User’s Quick Start Guide ®
Overview This quick start guide is not intended to replace any other documentation. Instead, we hope it will enable you to proceed from removing the products from their boxes, to setting up a simple shared storage network. Requirements – Mac Only Setup • Because this quick start guide only references the setup of the Fibre-for-4 package in an all-Mac environment, information on incorporating the system into a Windows®, Linux, or mixed OS environment is not included here.
Setup Workgroup Computers’ Preparation 9. Verify the storage system mounts and operates, copying files to and from the it; don’t install metaSAN yet. Before creating the SAN (storage area network), you need to prepare the workgroup and storage system.
Setup Install metaSAN on the Metadata Master and Create the SAN Definition (continued) 5. When the Welcome window appears, click Next. 10. When the next window appears, enter a name for the SAN definition, select the checkbox next to the RX1600Fibre storage system’s volume name, and then click Next. 6. When the next window appears, click Authorize, and then enter the administrator’s name (if necessary) and password. 7.
Setup Install metaSAN on Other Computers in the Workgroup and Join the SAN (continued) 23. Go back to the master computer, open System Preferences, and then open the metaSAN control panel. 24. Click the SAN Management button, and then click Refresh; the second computer’s private network IP address appears in the Members field. 25. Repeat the steps in this section with the remaining computers in the workgroup. 26.
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