Xsan

Infobox Software
name = Xsan



caption =
developer = Apple Inc.
latest_release_version = 2.1

genre = Clustered file system
license = Proprietary
website = http://www.apple.com/xsan/

[http://www.apple.com/xsan Xsan] is Apple Inc.'s high-performance clustered file system for Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server.

Xsan is an Apple's SAN file system software enabling you to share one or more RAID devices with multiple Xserve or Macintosh systems. Xsan will also work with third party fibre channel storage devices with limited support from Apple. With the Xsan file system installed, these computers can read and write to the same storage volume at the same time. Xsan is a complete storage area network (SAN) solution which includes the metadata controller software, the file system client software, and integrated setup, management and monitoring tools.

According to the [http://www.apple.com/xsan Xsan homepage] : "You may also use Xsan in a cross-platform environment alongside Windows-, UNIX- and Linux-based systems, using the Quantum StorNext File System, which is 100% interoperable with Xsan."

History

In May 2006, Apple released Xsan 1.2 with support for volume sizes of nearly 2 petabytes.

On 7 August 2006, Apple announced Xsan 1.4, which is available for Intel-based Macintosh computers as a Universal binary and supports file system access control lists.

On 5 December 2006, Apple released Xsan 1.4.1.

On 18 October 2007, Apple released Xsan 1.4.2, which resolves several reliability and compatibility issues.

On 19 February 2008, Apple released Xsan 2, the first major update which introduces MultiSAN, and completely redesigned administration tools. [ [http://forums.info-mac.org/viewtopic.php?f=217&t=12241 Info-Mac: View Topic - Apple Introduces Xsan 2 ] ] 2.1 was introduced in June 10 2008.

References

External links

* [http://www.apple.com/xsan/ Apple's Xsan page]