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FCS 3 on XSAN ok?
Anyone having any adverse effects when running FCS3 on XSAN2 in Leopard?
Would like to upgrade to FCS3, would also like to upgrade to SL at the same time, but think just upgrading FCS on Leopard for now might be the safer bet?
Thanks for any insight from your experience in the trenches!
bonus question: Any reason we shouldn’t use Spotlight to index the XSAN volumes? (since its a touted feature on XSAN2)
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Dan,
There is an X-SAN forum here on the cow, where you may get a better response to this question.
We have X-SAN, but have not upgraded yet. Not because we fear it, but because we have a “mixed fleet” of computers, that are not all intel machines. That’s the primary reason for us. I’ve heard that if you have a current fleet of “Intel” CPU machines, it works fine.
As for spotlight… that’s been an issue with X-SAN over the years. I think it really depends on the size of your volume. The larger the volume, the less practical it becomes. We don’t use it because our volumes are pretty big: 50+ TB.
mark
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Hi Mark,
Thanks for your response.
I also enjoyed your Apple featured video a while back!We have a 70TB volume on all Intel machines. Does the Spotlight issue apply to XSAN 2 as well?
Have you upgraded to FCS3? or just not SL?
Thanks again
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Dan,
Glad you enjoyed my Apple interview. That was a long time ago.
Apparently Spotlight “should” work on X-SAN 2, but we basically don’t use it.
We have a single copy of FS3 and SN in house for testing, but we’re not planning on wide
deployment until we can upgrade all of our “non intel” fleet. That may take awhile. Meanwhile,
I listen to everyone else’s experience with SN here on the cow.Mark
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