Engines

Within SAN File System, the hardware on which a metadata server and an administrative server run is called a storage engine. SAN File System supports from two to eight engines.

SAN File System is intended to run with a minimum of 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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