Awhile back Apple published an article on switching the network interface used in Xsan for Metadata networks. The article provides the following steps: Use Xsan Admin to stop the volumes (see below). In Xsan Admin select Overview. In the lower right corner, click the gear icon and choose “Edit SAN properties”. Select the Metadata Network that you want to use. Click Save. Restart the volumes. Note: If all controllers and clients are not on the same subnet on each network, the Save button will be dimmed. Adjust the clients and controllers so they are on the same subnets. This typically works great; except the fact that the article has been…
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Restart Xsan Services
Sometimes you just need to restart the Xsan services on a system. For example, you rm the contents of /Library/Preferences/Xsan and don’t feel like restarting a computer and waiting for all that ProTools boot junk to fire up. So, you can just restart the services: launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.xsan.plist launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.xsan.plist Also, I now always disable Xsan in System Preferences prior to doing the restart of services. Otherwise, I find cruft happens…