Notation Conventions
The following conventions are used in this book where shell commands or other
command-line items are described.
Notation
Indicates
fixed-width font
A command or other text entered in a Terminal
window
$
A shell prompt
[text_in_brackets]
An optional parameter
(one|other)
Alternative parameters (enter one or the other)
italicized
A parameter you must replace with a value
[...]
A parameter that can be repeated
<angle_brackets>
A displayed value that depends on your SAN
configuration
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Learn about storage area networks (SANs) and how Xsan
helps you set one up.
Read this chapter for an overview of Xsan and how you can use it to set up a SAN to
provide fast, shared storage.
San Volume
Mac OS X
Xsan lets you
combine RAID arrays
into volumes clients
use like local disks.
File data moves
over Fibre Channel
RAID
arrays (LUNs)
Storage
pools
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