David Budnetz
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“…the isis 7000 say it comes with 2 switch connectivity the Iss2000, which has (8) 1g ethernet connections and 1 10g connection.
So does this mean that you have the capacity to connect 16 direct connected clients via the 1g Ethernet and 2 clients via the 10g?”
ISIS 7000 is always configured with dual VLANS (lets say xxx.xxx.10.xxx and xxx.xxx.20.xxx)Generally, you would dual-connect clients (1 connection to the .10 VLAN and 1 connection to the .20 VLAN)for redundancy. You could, in theory, single connect all your clients, but they would be segregated between VLANs. I don’t recall if the 10Gb port can be used simultaneously with the 1Gb ports. If I recall correctly, on your 1st engine you will lose 1 port on each ISS blade to connect to the ISIS system director.
“Also if you are going to expand the capacity of the isis you need to purchase more Chassis/engines not just the ISBs right?”
Yes. The ISIS Engine (Chassis) is just an enclosure with power supplies and out-of-band hardware monitoring. You need to populate each engine with ISBs
for storage AND either ISS or ISX switch blades for connectivity. To expand beyond 2 engines, you will need to add an engine with ISX blades. 1 Engine with ISX blades supports up to a 12 engine stack. -
[David Budnetz] “ISIS 7000 is copper or optical ethernet to clients, and a proprietary form of infiniband interconnects between engines.
The principle differences between ISIS 5k and 7k are the following:
1] ISIS 5k is a SAN built on windows storage server 2008, which is sold as a turnkey product. ISIS 7000 is a clustered blade-server product running a proprietary version of linux. Each individual component of ISIS 7000 acts as a separate server element, running within the cluster; see the breakdown of components below.
Correction and annotations:
1] ISIS 7000 runs proprietary Linux on the blade elements only. The system director is still windows server(storage server 2008-R2, iirc.)
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Bob,
ISIS 7000 is copper or optical ethernet to clients, and a proprietary form of infiniband interconnects between engines.
The principle differences between ISIS 5k and 7k are the following:
1] ISIS 5k is a SAN built on windows storage server 2008, which is sold as a turnkey product. ISIS 7000 is a clustered blade-server product running a proprietary version of linux. Each individual component of ISIS 7000 acts as a separate server element, running within the cluster; see the breakdown of components below:
a] In ISIS 7000, a storage element is not a hard drive, but rather an “ISB” -or- ISIS Storage Blade. each ISB is 2 hard drives with an embedded server on a chip. each ISB receives a set of unique IP address.
b] each engine optionally holds 1 of 2 switch modules; either an ISS (ISIS Switch Blade) which can handle 8 direct-connect 1GbE clients, 1 HiRez 10GbE client, and a 12Gb interconnect; for further expansion beyond 2 engines, you would need to populate the switch slots with ISX modules (ISIS eXpansion switch blade)to connect up to 12 engines in a stack.
2] ISIS 5000 does not have true network redundancy, while ISIS 7000 is ALWAYS configured with at least 2 VLANs.
3] The ISIS 5000 engine is an integrated unit, containing storage elements and a System Director in a single unit. ISIS 7000 uses discrete hardware components; an engine contains storage and switch blades+power supplies; the system director(and failover system director) are separate servers. Both products use add-on servers for FTP and CIFS/SMB connectivity to non-realtime clients.
4] Both ISIS 5000 & 7000 have multiple “zones” that clients can exist in. Zone 1 is directly connected to an engine. Zone 2 is connected via a qualified switch. ISIS 7000 further certifies the ability to connect low-res clients via the house network (via a separate pair of VLANs, Zone 3) and via FTP and/OR CIFS/SMB for non-realtime clients, zone 4.
6] ISIS 5000 uses a hardware RAID controller on a per-engine basis; 3x RAID5 groups per engine. ISIS 7000 ISBs are each addressed as individual elements within storage groups, which can span multiple engines. ISIS 7000 storage groups can be either mirrored or RAID6, both controlled via the ISIS system director and ISIS software backbone.
the AVID ISIS 7000 whitepaper contains some very useful information. You can find it here:
https://www.avid.com/static/resources/common/documents/whitepapers/Avid_ISIS_Whitepaper_sec.pdf -
Fast import only works with certain codecs that have native media composer support. I do not have the documentation in front of me, but I seem to recall fast import only working with avid codecs and ikegami GFcam mxf files.
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The AVID videoraid SR is a re-branded promise vtrak SAS array. a few questions:
1] windows or OSX?
2] What sort of electrical work is being done? Has everything been unplugged from the wall (not just turned off)
3] Is the SR chassis on a good quality power conditioner or a UPS?
4] Did you purchase the unit new?
5] Do you have it set up for remote managment (there is a web interface – if you dont have this set up, do this NOW – this chassis is SES2 compliant, and has full onboard diagnostics.)