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support can help to greatly reduce service costs and shorten repair times, which
in turn will reduce the impact of any SAN File System failures on business.
RA provides a support engineer with full access to the SAN File System console,
after a request initiated by the customer. The access is via a secure VPN
connection, using VNC. This allows the support engineer to query and control the
SAN File System MDS and to access metadata, log, dump, and configuration
data, using the CLI.
3.3.8 Global namespace
The global namespace is the key to the SAN File System. It allows common
access to all files and direc ...