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Alex Give
January 21, 2022 at 10:39 am in reply to: Build a Shared Storage from current Hardware

Ah okay, this is what we have now and it seems this setup doesn’t work very well.

Reason why we like to setup a SAN so the drive is connected directly to Workstations.

We can use the Mac mini which the RAID is connected as the “Metadata Server” or is it still required to have two devices (master and redundant)?

Thanks
Alex Give
January 19, 2022 at 5:12 am in reply to: Build a Shared Storage from current Hardware

Neil again thank you for your reply!

But my concern is how would something like this be setup? My understating to create attached storage (Mac Pro to Mac mini) is to implement a SAN, correct?

So would this mean: I create SAN using the Mac mini and the Fibre attached RAID. All LUNS would set on this one RAID. Then using ATTO Xtend to connect the Mac Pro to the Mac mini over iSCSI.

Doesn’t XSAN still require two Macs to be setup?
Alex Give
January 18, 2022 at 10:16 am in reply to: Build a Shared Storage from current Hardware

I would appreciate any Info or Tips.

Thank you
Alex Give
January 13, 2022 at 8:57 am in reply to: Build a Shared Storage from current Hardware

Hi Neil!

Thank you for your quick reply.
Yes as mentioned the Raid is already connected to the Mac mini over fibre and is being used at this moment as standard drive that is being shared over SMB. The Mac mini itself is a Mac mini 2018 mounted in a xMac Server with the DuoMode Echo III Module from Sonnet. From my knowledge the Mac mini does have 10GB ethernet card.

Regarding to a 10GB switch, we (the editors) have access to ether a UniFi Switch XG 6 PoE or the UniFi Switch XG 16. Most likely the XG 6 PoE Switch (10Gb Ethernet).

The Mac mini is the Server Room, the edit stations are approx 19 and 50 feet apart from the Server Room. All rooms are networked with a Category 7 ethernet.

Thank you