Bart Harrison
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Existing PCI-X based hardware is NOT compatible with the PCIe bus architecture in these new G5’s. AJA will be making their “Something New” announcement tomorrow.
Bart
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Bart Harrison
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Hi Francois,
There was a rumor many months ago that they were going to stop making the Astera HBA’s. Although widespread, the rumor fortunately wasn’t true. There are Astera cards available (I get them from ADTX) and the new Tiger drivers work fine. Despite reports of it’s death Astera is alive an well !
Bart
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Bart Harrison
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Hey Chrispy,
Actually I use the NFS client/server capability that’s built right in to OS X. For the feint of heart there’s a wonderful little utility called NFS Manager that can help set it up. If I have to share with the PC World I always use Thursby Dave.
Bart
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Bart Harrison
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Hi Guys,
I am gradually moving my ADTX/SanMP clients over to Tiger without problems (so far) using the new Astera Tiger drivers. As we all know any HBA running Apple based driver/libraries seems to have problems with a “complex” FibreChannel deployment (LUN masking, etc.). Since XServe Raid is a “simple” FibreChannel device no such problems manifest themselves using that array.
I know they cost more, but I REALLY like Astera HBA’s. We had to wait for the Tiger drivers as Astera doesn’t use the built-in Apple libraries (they write it from scratch), but now it looks like “smooth sailing”.
Bart
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Bart Harrison
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Hey Francois,
Good to hear SanMP is working well for you (with the exception of this one issue).
On one of my installations I came up with a rather unique solution to this type of problem. On a twelve volume SanMP SAN there were two volumes we that needed simultanious write access to from multiple workstations (graphics, distributed rendering, etc.) so I repurposed one of their old G4’s as a “SAN Access Server”. I put a FibreChannel card and a copy of SanMP on the G4, mounted the two volumes read/write and shared them via NFS and Gigabit Ethernet with all the other workstations. This way everyone can write to those two SAN volumes at any time without concern. Since graphics/rendering doesn’t require full bandwith access to the SAN this turned out to be the perfect solution.
I also took it one step further by adding a terabyte of Raid 3 SCSI storage to the SAN Access Server (an old Huge array). We also digitised all six of their music libraries (using iTunes) and shared that with all the workstations. Each editing system can search for the desired music via their local copy of iTunes and then drop it right on the timeline without copying it to the SAN.
NFS is highly efficient. We’ve been able to reliably play a single stream of 10-bit uncompressed NTSC through the SAN Access Server. Of course any SAN client can mount either or both of those SAN volumes via SanMP and have full bandwidth access to the material. Hope this helps !!
Bart
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I’m running Atto Celerity on 2 LUN single Controller ADTX arrays with 10.4.2.
Bart
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Bart Harrison
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Ditto !!!
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[Francois Stark] “The Macopener that comes with sanMP is also limited to mounting 250GB GB NTFS volumes on the PC.”
Francois, you are using Macopener to access NTFS volumes ???
Bart
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Bart Harrison
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TurnKey Editing Systems, Storage Area Networks
HD Consulting, Production & Post, Exhibition & Distribution
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Mr. Larry Sherwood !!
Do you remember Algorithm 445 ? (Hint – it was also known as SuperRTV !!) Now we’re doing uncompressed HD using off-the-shelf desktop systems. Who’d a thunk it ?
[Larry Sherwood] “Just wondering if you have any opinions or comments on the Nexsan SataBlades?”
Sorry Larry, don’t have any hands-on with the Nexsan products. We’ve been using the ADTX L series arrays for SAN’s and for stand-alone HD systems. It’s fast enough to support five uncompressed SD systems or a dual-link RGB HD system. There are caveats, but I’ve got a bunch of them out there and they really do the job. Call me if you’d like to know more.
Bart
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[chrispy] “how you do manage the LUNs so that it does not duplicate or get confused ?”
What I like to do is deploy two FC switches. If that’s not in the cards then you need to set up appropriate LUN masking. The unique WWPN of each port on every HBA can be seen and masked by the ADTX GUI utility. It takes some organizational planning but works fine once you get it all setup.
Bart
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Bart Harrison
MPA – The HD SuiteAmerica’s VAR
TurnKey Editing Systems, Storage Area Networks
HD Consulting, Production & Post, Exhibition & Distribution
http://www.hdsuite.com
954-894-1221