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  Anyone installed or migrated to Lion-based Xsan?

  Posted by Eric Hansen on October 11, 2011 at 6:31 pm

  Hey All

  Wondering if anyone has installed a fresh system, or done a migration to Lion-based Xsan. With the software price point dropped, clients are asking me about Xsan again.

  thanks

  e

  Eric Hansen – https://www.erichansen.tv

  Bob Zelin replied 14 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Bob Zelin

  October 12, 2011 at 1:00 pm

  the only thing “free” is the user license. You still need the fibre array, the QLogic switch, the fibre cards, a metadata server (2), two networks and the fibre network, and of course – the knowlege to do all of this. So how much cheaper is it to build an XSAN system today – for a 6 seat system, you save $6000. Otherwise, the price is the same as before.

  Bob Zelin
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  Allan White

  October 26, 2011 at 5:24 pm

  Bob, you see things clearly as always. Have you heard anything about how reliable the new XSAN/Lion server is working for people?

  We have the physical infrastructure paid for; what interests me now is the cheaper seats. With the new Thunderbolt-to-FC adapters, that’s opening up some neat new possibilities for some of our people with Thunderbolt-equipped machines. But, that’s a lot of new newness at once, so thought I’d ask the experts. =)

  – Allan White, Video Producer, Luis Palau Assoc.

  Quad 3Ghz Mac Pro, 10GB RAM, X1900 GPU, XSAN, CatDV Server
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  Bob Zelin

  October 26, 2011 at 11:10 pm

  I unfortunately do not know one person who is running XSAN that has upgraded to OS X Lion.

  Jordan Woods on the XSAN forum is the expert on this subject.
  Yes, the idea of using a Mac Mini as a metadata server with the Promise TBolt to Fibre adaptor (to go to a QLogic switch) is very appealing. But I do not know one person who has done this.

  Bob Zelin

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