Compatibility of Fibre Channel storage devices with Xsan
This article lists the Fibre Channel storage hardware that's compatible with Xsan and OS X.
OS X Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, and Lion
Storage devices qualified for use in Mac OS X Snow Leopard v10.6 or earlier
Any ALUA-compliant Fibre Channel RAID systems
Mac OS X Snow Leopard v10.6 or earlier
Apple Xserve RAID
Promise VTrak E-Class RAID Subsystem (requires Mac OS X v10.5.2 Leopard or later)
More information
OS X Lion and later include support for the Asymmetric Logical Unit Access (ALUA) standard for multipathing and failover. Support for this industry standard multipathing implementation allows Lion and newer Xsan systems to be used with a wide variety of Fibre Channel RAID storage arrays.
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