Installation guide

Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 2

Contents

INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................... 4

Mac, Windows and Linux Client Connectivity ......................................................................... 5

StorNext File Sharing Environments ...................................................................................... 5

CURRENT SOLUTIONS ........................................................................................................... 6

Supported Hardware Environments ....................................................................................... 6

Supported File Sharing Environments.................................................................................... 7

SOLUTION COMPONENT DESCRIPTIONS ........................................................................... 8

SAN Architecture criteria ........................................................................................................ 8

Apple Clients .......................................................................................................................... 8

Windows Clients .................................................................................................................... 8

Windows Server MDCs (Future Support) ............................................................................... 8

Linux StorNext Clients and MDCs .......................................................................................... 9

IBM DS Storage ..................................................................................................................... 9

Solutions .................................................................................................................................. 12

Apple Hardware Connect Only ............................................................................................. 12

Apple Servers and/or clients with no shared filed access ................................................. 12

Apple Homogenous Shared File .......................................................................................... 12

Apple Xsan Clients with Linux MDC (Meta Data Controller) ............................................. 12

Windows Client Hardware Connect Only ............................................................................. 12

Windows clients with no shared filed access .................................................................... 13

Linux Homogenous .............................................................................................................. 13

Linux StorNext Clients with Linux MDC ............................................................................ 13

Heterogeneous .................................................................................................................... 13

Apple Xsan Clients, Linux StorNext Clients, Windows Clients and Linux MDC ................ 13

APPLE, WINDOWS, and STORNEXT SUPPORT MATRIX .................................................... 13

SOLUTION RESTRICTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS .................................................... 15

RECOMMENDED RAID CONFIGURATIONS ......................................................................... 16

SOLUTION INSTALLATION .................................................................................................... 17

MIGRATING FROM XSAN MDC TO STORNEXT MDC ...................................................... 19

ATTO Technology Inc. ............................................................................................................. 20

APPENDIX A: EXAMPLE CONFIGURATIONS ....................................................................... 22

Large Heterogeneous StorNext configuration ...................................................................... 22