metalan server – impressed to say the least

[Nathaniel Cooper]

Don’t forget:

Promax Systems
Studio Network Solutions

Both with great gigE solutions for video production. Yes, I work for Promax, yes, I used to work for SNS 😉 Both, great solutions.

Nate Cooper
nate.cooper@promax.com
office: 949.861.2725
cell: 949.375.2738

I support:
Xsan
MXFserver
Promax ShareMAX
EVO/SANmp
EditShare
MetaSAN
Small Tree
NAS solutions

[Alex Gerulaitis]

[Adam Berk] “The AJA test on the macs is consistently reporting between 105MB/s and 110MB/s for both read and write. This system has been integrated into our single switch with our regular house network. Same subnet, no vlans, etc. The clients connect to the network via a single NIC. The metalan seems to be happily coexisting with the rest of the regular internet and lan traffic.

Finder transfer speeds are now peaking up to 117MB/s.”

Impressive. I didn’t think that was possible outside of iSCSI – especially with vanilla flavor NICs and switches. All that – with under $300 per client and under $600 per server?

Alex
DV411

[Adam Berk]

Like iSCSI, metaLAN is block level sharing as well. The biggest difference to me aside from the all of the technical stuff under the hood is that iSCSI doesn’t really gain you anything on its own if your intention is to share the same volume amongst multiple clients. To the best of my understanding, connecting via iSCSI is the same as connecting via fibre channel in that you need SAN software to keep your filesystem from exploding. metaLAN handles all of this as part of the system. It’s one price for one product.

And in response to the other ethernet storage sharing products… I’ve yet to find any other product outside of Tiger’s offerings that’s explicitly advertised as fully supporting the Autodesk linux distributions. Without such support, those products are complete and total non-options in my company’s facility.

R. Adam Berk
Managing Director
Creative Technology San Francisco
http://www.CT-SF.com

[Alex Gerulaitis]

Adam – thanks for sharing – yours is a great testimony to Tiger Tech and MetaLAN.

Alex
DV411

[Joaquim Herrera]

Same here

Windows 2008 server
2 Areca Arc 8018 12xdiscs sata on each controller (raid 6 on Arecas, Raid 0 on windows)
1 Intel Pro 1000 Quad Port 4 ports Link Aggregation
SSD for Windows 2008
Metalan Server

Metalan clients
1 Edius 1 Gb
1 Protools 1Gb
2 FCP 7 each Mac Pro with Link Aggregation (bond) 2 Gbits
Allied Telesys Switch AT-GS950 (must be the green version, otherwise you can´t aggregate/bond Mac´s)
1 NAS synology DS2411+ 1 Gb for mirroring on another building in case of flood or fire 😉
Robocopy for mirroring

works like charme, i´m pretty impressed with speed and robustness of everything, 6 months 1 crash on windows lol 😀
I´m doing soap in HD Prores 422

Best Regards

Joaquim Herrera

[Adam Berk]

Bonding the NICs on the mac clients won’t gain you any speed to/from the server in that configuration.

[Joaquim Herrera]

does 180/ 190 Mbytes per second on each Mac…..sustained!!!
do you want to see a screen shot?

[Adam Berk]

Yes – use the AJA or Blackmagic disk test.