We have seen some systems where our Xsan volume(s) do not mount consistently on restart. We have seen this occasionally on both macOS Catalina and Big Sur. After confirming that the fibre channel HBA driver is loaded, and seeing that manually running xsanctl mount <volumeName> works as expected, we can turn to launchd to make sure the volume mounts....
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We have seen several Big Sur Macs at different locations not mount their Xsan volume after a restart or power on. After some investigation, we have found that the fibre HBA driver is not loaded. This has happened with ATTO ThunderLink FC adapters, ATTO Celerity PCI cards, and Promise SANLink FC adapters, so it doesn’t appear to just be one bad driver. The first...
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In macOS Monterey the Server.app interface for setting up and managing Xsan is gone. Apple has produced an Xsan Management Guide (as of 2021-11-2 available on the Apple developer site). In this post I will walk through creating a new Xsan from scratch on macOS Monterey. Our test environment is made up of 2 Intel Mac Minis with ATTO Thunderlink fibre adapters connected to a...
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With macOS Monterey, Apple has announced that the Server.app interface for Xsan is going away. One small benefit to this is that we don’t need to wait for the official release of Server.app v5.12 to upgrade our Xsan to Monterey. Both Big Sur and Monterey have the same Xsan versions (Server Revision 7.0.1 Build 589[96634]). This post will show the steps I used to upgrade...
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