Engines

Within SAN File System, the hardware on which the metadata servers and administrative servers run are called storage engines. SAN File System supports from two to eight engines.

SAN File System is intended to run with a minimum of two engines; however, you can run a single-engine system if:

You can use the SAN File System console or administrative command-line interface to monitor and control the engines from any computer with a network connection to the cluster.

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