Today, we are opening the doors on a new forum dedicated to the XRAID line of Mac-focused enterprise storage products. What's more, it will be maintained by Active Technologies's own senior technician (and Xsanity veteran) Jordan Woods. Welcome back Jordan!

For more information about the XRAID, Matt's in-depth review from April is a required reading.

And we remain honored to host the Promise Vtrak forums as well. Now play nice, boys!

Some of us haven't just given birth to storage networks, we're dads to wetware too. In some parts of the world, today is our day. Congratulations especially to those first-time dads out there! (ahem, Bill, ahem)

Speaking of which, why does Versiontracker link to something called "Xsan 2.2"?

Although I'm not there, the word from WWDC is that ZFS is not going to be in Snow Leopard at all.

Infrageeks has some detail.

This is disappointing.

Apple has posted a new knowledge base article on configuring the Promise VTrak for optimal performance. The article demonstrates various configs with lots of nice pictures.

In addition Apple has posted another knowledge base article detailing how to create "Second SAS-connected Expansion Chassis Only" configuration scripts.

Apple has posted an informative guide to troubleshooting permission errors on Xsan.

When you install Final Cut Server, by default you use http://127.0.0.1/finalcutserver as the path to install the client software. In a number of environments we've seen this end up getting broken for one reason or another. One easy way to fix this is to simply re-run the post-install.sh script from /Library/Application Support/Final Cut Server/Final Cut Server.bundle/Contents/Resources/sbin

However, this brings up the fact that very few Final Cut Servers are actually going to be hosting other websites. Therefore, in order to make things as easy as possible for administrators and end users, how might you go about making the path to access your client installer shorter?

Tekserve, New York's premiere authorized Apple reseller and service provider, is looking for a few great people to expand its Professional Services department:

• Xsan engineers
• Final Cut Pro experts
• OS X Server administrators

These are customer-facing positions and excellent interpersonal skills are required.

Consider being part of the team that founded Xsanity. To apply, please submit a resume and cover letter to work@tekserve.com.