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Leopard Guides: Storage
Storage devices include disk drives, tape drives, RAID arrays, and Storage Area Network (SAN) file systems. Xsan administrators can tune storage devices using the Xsan administrative tools. Developers can fine-tune their applications by measuring and evaluating file-system performance using tools such as Shark and fs_usage.
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Xsan 2 Administrator's Guide (PDF)
Explains how to set up and manage Xsan volumes in a storage area network.
 2008-06-09
Xsan 2 Setup Guide (PDF)
Explains how to set up a volume on a storage area network (SAN) using Xsan 2.
 2008-06-09
File System Events Programming Guide (HTML) (PDF)
Explains how applications can detect changes in the file system.
 2008-03-11
Xsan Programming Guide (HTML) (PDF)
Describes managing files and storage pools with Xsan.
 2006-05-23
Deploying Mac OS X Server for High Performance Computing (PDF)
Explains how to configure Mac OS X Server for computational clustering.
 2005-10-04
Xsan Tuning Guide (PDF)
Explains how to configure Xsan storage to maximize application performance.
 2005-10-04
File-System Performance Guidelines (HTML) (PDF)
Guidelines for improving the performance of file-related code.
 2005-07-07