[Macpartners] XSan 1.3 released

[Mateja Miljacki]

Apple today announced the release of Xsan 1.3 at the National  
Association of Broadcasters (NAB) event in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Xsan  
1.3 is a free upgrade for existing users and will be available for  
download on Monday, April 24 at 1PM Pacific.

To simplify storage configuration especially in HD environments Xsan  
1.3 now supports Fibre Channel LUNs greater than 2TB in size; no  
longer must 7TB Xserve RAID users slice their storage and potentially  
impact storage bandwidth in order to maximize their storage usage.   
This release also includes numerous improvements to the products  
general reliability, volume resharing performance and compatibility  
with mixed platforms and third-party applications.

The update can be obtained through Software Update or the support  
download page at:
	
	http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/

Xsan 1.3 is designed to support Tiger systems running 10.4.5 (or  
later), Panther system running 10.3.9 and includes a new Xsan Admin  
application for use with all Xsan deployments, even those continuing  
to run earlier releases.  Xsan 1.3 is a software update release only,  
the shrink-wrap retail boxes and disc images are not being updated  
for the 1.3 release.

This release includes fixes for:

- labeling and initializing LUNs greater than 2TB in size
- preventing labeled LUNs from becoming unlabeled
- improving AFP performance when re-sharing Xsan volumes
- more accurate file permissions when sharing Xsan volumes via AFP
- accessing Xsan volumes larger than 16 terabytes in size
- greater server stability when re-sharing Xsan volumes via NFS
- handling quotas with no associated user or group name
- maintaining access to Xsan volumes when metadata controller fail- 
overs occur
- providing metadata controller services to 10.3.9 and 10.4 systems  
running Xsan 1.2
- operating Xsan in environments with a mix of 10.3.9 and 10.4 systems
- compatibility with third-party applications and devices

For detailed information on this Update, please visit the AppleCare  
support web site at:

	http://www.apple.com/support/xsan/

NOTE: Several new Knowledge Base articles are now available on a  
variety of topics including "Using LUNs larger than 2TB", how to  
expand an Xsan volume and the difference between "bandwidth  
expansion" and "capacity expansion".  See the AppleCare support web  
page for more information.

-- 
Mateja Miljacki, ACSA
mateja at apple.com
Systems Engineer
http://www.apple.com/education/technicalresources/
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