Xsan has been vetted for use on Xserve G4, Xserve G5, Power Mac G4, Power Mac G5, Xserve RAID and Apple Fibre Channel PCI-X cards.
Xsan is also supported by ADIC’s StorNext Management Suite data management software. Xsan is interoperable with ADIC’s StorNext File System, which means it can be used in mixed-platform environments comprising Windows, Unix and Linux operating systems as well, according to Apple. Xsan’s applications extend beyond video and film, as well - Apple sees a market for Xsan in business, government, education and high performance computing - all environments that can benefit from storage consolidation where features like metadata controller failover, Fibre Channel multipathing, file-level locking and more sophisticated volume management can be used effectively.Īpple offers license discounts for more than 10 nodes per network, and also offers an optional maintenance program that enables companies to buy three years of upgrades for the cost of a single upgrade. Xserve G5 file server, upping the top-end and “Cluster Node” configuration’s processor speed to 2.3GHz and its system bus speed to 1.15GHz.įibre channel-based SAN systems like Xsan are high-speed networking storage solutions aimed at environments like video and film editing, broadcast, visual effects and motion graphics creation. Apple also announced an upgrade to its rack-mountable
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Xsan is a 64-bit cluster file system that enables Mac OS X Server users to share files and volumes up to 16 TB (Terabytes) in size on a Fibre Channel network. Xsan Storage Area Network (SAN) file system, now available for US$999 per client and per server. on Tuesday announced that it is shipping its
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