[Mike Hartung]

Hi Eric,

Thanks for your input. Our protools systems seem to be running very well with multiple rooms able to work without even noticing that we are using an iscsi SAN. In fact, on very large sessions, the SAN beats the pants off a local FW 800 drive when it comes to response time when you press play. Im soon going to receive my new SAN appliance and I want to redo things a little diffrrently when i set it up this time. Right now I have it set up as two LUNs eact parted into four partitions. This looks like 8 available volumes in the SNS client software. I’m thinking of having a partition per studio and then a couple separate partitions for the senior engineers. Then there is the whole security issue. It will be a bit of a puzzle to setup the accounts. Any thoughts or tips for administering a SAN for this kind of setup?

Thanks!

Mike

[Mike Hartung]

Hi Bob,

I have an iscsi raid up and running, thanks to SNS. My original question has to do with work flow in relation to partitioning. I would be interested in hearing from others who have more experience than me.

Any insight is appreciated.

Thanks!

Mike

[Mike Hartung]

Hello Caspian,

Thanks for that info. I will take that into consideration. I wonder though if you had any insight as to when a particular RAID type becomes better for audio when you consider the amount of disks in the RAID? For example, will certain RAID types perform better/worse with more/fewer disks? Is there any benefit disk IO-wise to do always have more disks (up to 8) in the system when it comes to audio? I remember being very impressed when I demoed your now discontinued X-4 unit. Now Im hoping to take it a step further. Again, thanks for the feedback.

Mike

[Mike Hartung]

Hi Bob,
I have read a lot of your posts and your enthusiasm for shared storage is inspiring. PLUS I have learned a lot! So, i guess i should say, ” thank you.”

I failed to mention that I am definitely going iSCSI. I am going to demo an infortrend 16 bay appliance with four Gb Ethernet ports when it arrives within a couple weeks. Im hoping to get a little insight from some of the more experienced techs here so that I can get it set up to as close to optimal as possible. I have some experience with SNS products and they worked great while I had them on demo. With the economic climate I am faced with, I am forced to go it alone and bear the headaches of setting it up myself. Shared storage has been a dream for a long time and, in my tireless pursuit I am finally going to try to get it to work. My bets are also on SNS sanMP for all the clients. Any further help and/or insight is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Mike
Oslo, Norway