Connecting Archiving Storage; Filesystem Devices; Scsi Tape Drive Devices - HP Z800 Hardware Setup Manual

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Two XR 5402 / 5412 RAID enclosures, 4 loops

First storage assembly

To FC adapter on workstation / LMS (port 1)

To FC adapter (port 2)

XR RAID Enclosure

XE (EBOD) Expansion Enclosure

Cabling for additional enclosures

NOTE In a configuration with two XR RAID enclosures, the number of XE extension enclosures per XR RAID

enclosure must be the same. The total number of enclosures in the storage assembly must be an even number.

Connecting Archiving Storage

NOTE This section does not apply to Autodesk Lustre.

Visual Effects and Finishing applications support archiving to USB 2.0, FireWire

channel devices. This includes filesystems, VTRs and tape drives. This section discusses the requirements for

filesystem and tape drive devices. For information on connecting a VTR, see Connecting Video Components.

USB 2.0 and FireWire (IEEE 1394) attached devices must be formatted with one of the following filesystems:

XFS, ext2, ext3, or HFS (Mac

NOTE Care must be taken to ensure that the filesystems used to store archives are reliable, stable and properly

backed up so as to protect the archive integrity. This functionality is not provided by the application.

SCSI tape drives can be connected to a fibre channel port of the workstation by way of a fibre-channel-to-SCSI

bridge, such as the Atto FibreBridge 2390D. The tape drive device must meet two criteria. First, the device s

Second storage assembly

To FC adapter on workstation / LMS (port 0)

To FC adapter (port 3)

XR RAID Enclosure

XE (EBOD) Expansion Enclosure

). NTFS is not supported.

(IEEE 1394) and fibre

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