Ethernet TCP/IP Network
Computers on the SAN must be connected to an Ethernet network. Xsan controllers
and clients use this network instead of the Fibre Channel network to exchange file
system metadata.
If the computers on your SAN must communicate with directory servers, a corporate
or campus intranet, or the Internet, connect each SAN client and metadata controller
to two Ethernet networks: one private subnet for the SAN metadata and a separate
connection for directory service, intranet, and Internet traffic. This is especially
important if you plan to use the SAN for high-performance applications such as video
editing.
IP Addresses
The client and metadata controller computers need static (fixed) IP addresses for
Ethernet network connections. For the public intranet and Internet connection, you
can enter each computer’s static IP address, subnet mask, router address, and DNS
server address manually or configure a DHCP server to provide this information. If you
want the DHCP server to provide IP addresses, it must always assign the same static IP
address to each SAN computer. Don’t use DHCP to assign dynamic IP addresses to SAN
devices.
For the SAN metadata network, the SAN computers should have static private
(nonroutable) IP addresses (unless you can’t set up a separate, private Ethernet
network for SAN metadata).
If you’re setting up new computers or computers on which you’ve just installed
Mac OS X v10.6 or Mac OS X Server v10.6, you can have Xsan Admin assign and
manage addresses for your private metadata network.
If you assign addresses yourself, use one of the following ranges of IP addresses on
your private (nonrouted) metadata network:
Private address range
Associated subnet mask
Also specified as
10.0.0.0–10.255.255.255
255.0.0.0
10/8
172.16.0.0–172.31.255.255
255.240.0.0
172.16/12
192.168.0.0–192.168.255.255
255.255.0.0
192.168/16