What’s New in Xsan 2
Xsan 2 offers these new features and capabilities:
The Xsan Admin application is redesigned to simplify SAN management.
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Xsan Admin enables you to turn on drive activity lights to identify LUNs.
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A volume setup assistant guides you through the process of creating volumes for
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common purposes such as video editing and file services.
The volume setup assistant also organizes available storage into storage pools for
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you, based on the way you plan to use the volume.
More than one storage pool can have the same affinity tag.
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Each volume has a separate failover priority.
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Xsan 2.2: You can install Xsan on computers running Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server
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version 10.6.
Xsan 2.2: Xsan uses the 64-bit kernel for improved performance when running on
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Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server v10.6.
Xsan 2.2: The Xsan file system supports extended attributes
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Xsan 2.2: Xsan is compatible with StorNext v3.5.
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