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I’ve been offered a “Bargain” Fibre SAN system…
Hi, all!
I’ve been offered a 4TB, RAID5, 8 SATA drive 4GHz fibre channel chassis, LSI HBA & cabling for a good price.
There’s no software with it, but I’ve had a play with the menus and it all looks fully functional. The drives are configured RAID5 & there is a logical volume, so it all looks good.
It is only going to be connected to my Mac Pro tower, so no need for a fibre switch.
What additional software am I likely to need to get it mounted as a drive on my Mac? I’ve plugged it into a Mac Pro tower at the company’s office, and whilst the OS system tools reports a connection, there’s nothing appearing in the Disk Utility. I had naively hoped that an unformatted volume would appear!
As it’s only a peer to peer setup, I don’t need to buy OSX Server, or XSAN software, do I?
Thanks in advance for your help, folks! It’s Bob Z. I’m mainly talking to, here!
Regards,
Phil
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Here’s a funny thing. (It’s not, really.)
I figured it out! Having wandered through the panel’s settings, I changed a parameter or two, which reset the controller and all the info appeared in the System Properties & Disk Utility!
Stand down, everyone 🙂
Phil
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Philip –
you are crazy. There is no need to buy this “bargin’ fibre san.
You are doing peer to peer. This is a waste of money.Get a couple of 3TB drives. Stick it in one of your MAC Pro computers. Now you have 6TB (not 4TB ) of new, modern SATA drives, not some antique 500gig x 8 drives.
Plug in an ethernet cable between Mac Pro # 1 and Mac Pro # 2, using ethernet port 2 on both computers. Turn on File Sharing on Mac Pro # 1. Assign a static IP address on ethernet port 2 of Mac Pro # 1 to 192.168.2.3, and and a static IP address of 192.168.2.4 on Mac Pro # 2. On Mac Pro # 2 (the computer that wants to access the drives on Mac Pro # 1), click on GO>Connect To Server, and enter the IP address of 192.168.2.3. BAM, you now have the 6TB drives on Mac Pro # 1, appear on Mac Pro # 2.
Peer to Peer connectivity. How much money did I just save you ?
Tell the guy with the 4gig 4TB fibre system to shove it.
Bob Zelin
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