Clients

Machines that have access to the SAN are called clients. You can have a total of 64 clients in Xsan with concurrent block-level access to a shared volume. Clients are configured in the Xsan Admin application and are able to mount the shared storage if given access. The files the client reads and writes are sent via the Fibre Channel connection, but other client/controller communication is made possible by an Ethernet "out-of-band" network. An unlimited number of clients may indirectly access data from the SAN if any client is configured to host a network service such as file sharing (AFP, SMB/CIFS, and NFS).