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  • SAN sharing only XSAN or what?

    Posted by Morten on September 21, 2011 at 6:31 am

    Can anybody clarify how the SAN sharing works, and if will allow me to use a non XSAN shared volume?

    – No Parking Production –

    2 x Finalcut Studio3, 2 x MacPro, 2 x ioHD, File Server w. X-Raid
    …. and FCPX in the garbage bin

    Morten replied 14 years, 8 months ago 4 Members · 10 Replies
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  • Jeremy Garchow

    September 21, 2011 at 6:37 am

    I have a 48TB NTFS SAN (windows server) controlled by Tiger Technologies metaSAN.

    FCPX works on this volume today when it didn’t yesterday.

    According to Apple, only one computer can see the project or event at any given time.

    It seems SAN availability is not only relagated to XSAN.

  • Morten

    September 21, 2011 at 6:52 am

    Does anybody know if it will work with a File Shared Volume? ( I have a shared storage solution using a Small Tree ethernet server card)

    – No Parking Production –

    2 x Finalcut Studio3, 2 x MacPro, 2 x ioHD, File Server w. X-Raid
    …. and FCPX in the garbage bin

  • Andrew Richards

    September 21, 2011 at 11:41 am

    [Morten Ranmar] “Does anybody know if it will work with a File Shared Volume? ( I have a shared storage solution using a Small Tree ethernet server card)”

    Larry Jordan reported that NAS also works.

    Best,
    Andy

  • Devin Crane

    September 21, 2011 at 3:28 pm

    So far it’s a no go on my simple Mac Pro NAS.

  • Jeremy Garchow

    September 21, 2011 at 4:55 pm

    [Devin Crane] “So far it’s a no go on my simple Mac Pro NAS.”

    Have you tried making a new event on the drive?

  • Devin Crane

    September 21, 2011 at 5:01 pm

    The drive or volume doesn’t show up to make an Event on. In order to add a SAN you have to use the “Add San” feature under “File” this won’t allow me to add my NAS either.

  • Jeremy Garchow

    September 21, 2011 at 7:30 pm

    Then NAS must not be supported at this time.

  • Morten

    September 21, 2011 at 8:12 pm

    Yeah, that’s the problem with Apple – there’s always a hidden agenda in what they do – in this case trying to get us to pay up for Lion and Lion Server!

    – No Parking Production –

    2 x Finalcut Studio3, 2 x MacPro, 2 x ioHD, File Server w. X-Raid
    …. and FCPX in the garbage bin

  • Jeremy Garchow

    September 21, 2011 at 8:14 pm

    [Morten Ranmar] “Yeah, that’s the problem with Apple – there’s always a hidden agenda in what they do – in this case trying to get us to pay up for Lion and Lion Server!”

    I have neither of those nad it works here. My SAN has nothing to do with Apple, it’s actually controlled via Windows.

  • Morten

    September 21, 2011 at 8:21 pm

    All the same – it should work on ANY shared storage, since the application itself takes care of signing in and out on the “SAN”, in order to not create user conflicts.

    – No Parking Production –

    2 x Finalcut Studio3, 2 x MacPro, 2 x ioHD, File Server w. X-Raid
    …. and FCPX in the garbage bin

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