Adam Berk
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I also noticed the difference between the Scale LUT with unscaled monitoring vs no LUT with scaled monitoring.
R. Adam Berk
Managing Director
Creative Technology San Francisco
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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
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Yeah. This is Tiger Technology’s MetaLan Server/Client system we’re talking about.
R. Adam Berk
Managing Director
Creative Technology San Francisco
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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.
R. Adam Berk
Managing Director
Creative Technology San Francisco
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For sure.
I’m hoping to gradually transition to, or perhaps just supplement this system with 10gig-e direct links to certain throughput hungry workstations, ie our flame, resolve, etc. I will be discussing what of this is possible with Tiger this week. I started this config using a separate switch, nics and subnet for the metalan but this caused problems with the server. The SAN members were showing up on the wrong NIC’s, etc, so I just moved the entire house network + the metalan over to the one fully managed switch and it seems to be working perfectly fine. Our network is pretty small in the grand scheme of things. It’s not like we’ve got 200 people all surfing the web and listening to internet radio all day, etc. The regular “house” network traffic shouldn’t be so substantial that it would cause any problem with the metalan co-existing on the same subnet, switch and NIC’s. I could be wrong about this, but I would be surprised.
R. Adam Berk
Managing Director
Creative Technology San Francisco
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I’m not sure i catch your drift Bob. I’d say this ethernet config works pretty damn well for what it is.
R. Adam Berk
Managing Director
Creative Technology San Francisco
http://www.CT-SF.com -
What would really be great would be a feature that would allow for direct shot replacement without have to deal with a proper reconform of just a few shots. I would love to be able to just right click a shot in the conform and point it to a new file or dpx sequence on disk.
-adam
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Is this working for anyone? The up/down keys don’t seem to be doing anything here.
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Maybe set one of your pen buttons to middle mouse?
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Thanks Rohit. I’ll try to attempt again tomorrow and if I’m still having issues I’ll send the logs.
-adam