Product specifications

Chapter 2 MediaNetwork Workgroup Overview

MediaNetwork from the User’s Perspective

MediaNetwork clients mount workspaces in one of several ways:

• By mapping drives or using the Connection Manager on Windows Fibre

Channel clients

• Using the Chooser on Macintosh Fibre Channel clients

• Using the Connection Manager on Windows or Macintosh Ethernet

clients

Several MediaNetwork clients can mount the same workspace concurrently.

This allows the clients to access the same media and to start using it after the

media is written to a workspace.

MediaNetwork Data Flow

“MediaNetwork Client Request Data Flow” traces the data flow from a

MediaNetwork editing client request to data retrieval. The following

procedure explains the numbered steps in the illustration.

MediaNetwork Client Request Data Flow

File

Manager

MediaNetwork Drive Set

(Fibre Channel drives)

Client

Backup File

Manager

(optional)

MEDIASwitch