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Seting up an Xraid for a direct connection to PC or laptop

  • Connect the PC/laptop network port directly to one of the Xraid network ports by a standard Cat5e cable. A cross-over cable is Not needed.
  • Set a static network address on your PC/laptop to

| Address | 169.254.0.10 |

Netmask 255.255.0.0
Network 169.254.0.0
Broadcast 169.254.255.255

* To discover the network address of the Xraid run =⇒> ping -b 169.254.255.255 you should get an return from the Xraid IP

  • Raid the Apple RAID Admin Tool and enter this IP address as the destination host
  • If you want to do this more than once, set a static IP address on the RAID admin, e.g.

| Address Xraid | 192.168.1.50 |

Address PC 192.168.1.10
Netmask 255.255.255.0
Network 192.168.1.0
Broadcast 192.168.1.255

then update the client host in RAID Admin Tool to point to 192.168.1.50

lbaops/xraidmonitoring.txt · Last modified: 2015/12/18 16:39 by 127.0.0.1