Setup guide

■ A SAN: infrastructure that allows multiple workstations to share simultaneous access to a central storage
enclosure. When attached to a CXFS SAN declared as a standard filesystem partition to Stone and Wire,
Creative Finishing workstations running the current release have shown optimal (real-time) performance
with version 4.02 of the CXFS client, and the following mount options for the CXFS volume:
rw,noatime,filestream,inode64.
■ USB 2.0 and FireWire (IEEE 1394) attached devices must be use one of the these filesystems: XFS, ext2,
ext3, or HFS (Mac). NTFS is not supported.
■ SCSI tape drives can be connected to a fibre channel port via for example the Atto FibreBridge 2390D.
The device’s driver must accept standard UNIX tape device calls. The device must be certified for use
with the currently supported version of the workstation operating system and kernel.
Configure a direct attached storage or SAN as media storage
You can use your application with the following storage configurations (but not the system drive):
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Fibre channel adapter
On HP Z800 workstations, connections to media storage are made using the ATTO Celerity FC84-EN fibre
channel adapter, located in slot five (top to bottom). It has four ports, called loops. You can connect your
storage enclosure to the fibre channel cards using either two or four loops. A two-loop device can be connected
to either the inner pair of ports or the outer pair of ports. A 4-loop device requires both the inner pair and
the outer pair.
If you are not using all the ports of a fibre channel adapter, terminate the two unused ports with the FC
loopback couplers that shipped with your system. Terminating these ports significantly decreases the time
required to boot the system.
Stone Direct
See also Autodesk Stone Direct Services & Support.
Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3003
The Dot Hill storage solution consists of one main disk enclosure, plus an optional expansion enclosure.
The main disk enclosure contains two controllers: Controller A at the top, Controller B at the bottom.
Connecting an expansion: if you are using an expansion enclosure, connect the SAS port of controller A to
the SAS port of the top I/O module on the expansion, and the SAS port of controller B to the SAS port of
the bottom I/O module of the expansion.
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