Setup guide

Connecting Media Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Connecting the Fibre Channel Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Connecting Stone Direct Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Connecting Archiving Storage to Visual Effects and Finishing
Workstations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Filesystem Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
SCSI Tape Drive Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Configuring your System BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Checking the BIOS Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Connecting the Autodesk Control Surface to a Lustre
Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Assigning an IP Address to the Autodesk Control
Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Configuring Lustre to Connect to the Autodesk Control
Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS and the DKU . . . . . . 33
Do I Need to Reinstall Linux? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Linux Installation Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Linux Post-Installation Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Configuring Basic Network Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Configuring an InfiniBand Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Installing the DKU and the AJA OEM-2K Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Mounting the Product USB Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Extracting an Installer from a TAR Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Installing the DKU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Upgrading the AJA Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Configuring Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Do I Need to Perform these Procedures? . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Powering Up Your Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Partitioning the Storage and Creating the XFS Filesystem . . . . . 48
Chapter 3 Installing your Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Installing Flame Premium or Visual Effects and Finishing Standalone
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Installing Lustre Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Uninstalling your Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Chapter 4 Configuring Your Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Configuring Visual Effects and Finishing Software . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Do I Need to Perform These Tasks? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Configuring Media Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Configuring a Direct Attached Storage or SAN as Media
Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Setting up the Wire Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
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