Planning the client configuration

This topic describes the how to plan which application servers or application groups will become SAN File System clients.

Perform these tasks to plan your client configuration:
  • Identify the applications and application groups in your environment that you want to use SAN File System to store data. The machines running those applications and application groups will become clients to SAN File System.
  • Identify the authentication mechanism that the clients will use to securely access the global namespace.
  • Identify applications running on the clients that require direct I/O to the global namespace.
  • Identify the clients that you want to have root access to the global namespace (called privileged clients).
  • Gather information required to install IFS/VFS on the client machine.
Use these worksheets to collect information needed to install IFS/VFS:
  • UNIX®-based-client installation worksheet
  • Windows®-based-client installation worksheet

Parent topic: Planning

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