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amagab
June 10th, 2009, 08:47 PM
We have a new Xserve running 10.5 with a headnode and 3 additional nodes. We also have a 20Tb RAID.

The person who was to set it up left so I'm stuck with it. I'm actually looking forward to it but not quite comfortable with everything.

The OS is installed but it appears that the nodes are not associated and the RAID is not setup.

Where do I start? Any good books or documentations that can take me step by step?

Thanks!
ElDiabloConCaca
June 11th, 2009, 12:03 AM
"Nodes?" I'm not familiar with that term. Does that mean "other servers?"
amagab
June 11th, 2009, 12:41 PM
Nodes are used in Xserve clusters to increase computing power:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TA27054?viewlocale=en_US#faq1
ora
June 11th, 2009, 01:05 PM
Nodes is cluster-speak - I am jealous ama!
DeltaMac
June 11th, 2009, 01:53 PM
http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/resources/
amagab
June 12th, 2009, 10:00 PM
I don't know how far the previous guy got but this is what the drives on the RAID looks like (see attached screen shot)

As you can see it shows up in Disk Utility but no in RAID Admin.

I want to create a one mirror of all these. Where do I start and how do I go about that?

Thanks!