Creating Workspaces - Avid Technology Unity LANserver EX3 Setup Manual

Creating Workspaces

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Workspaces are locations to store and segregate data. You can allow users to
access some or all of the workspaces, and assign permissions for how each
user can access the data in a workspace.
If your LANserver EX3 has the UnityRAID option, all new workspaces are
created with protection enabled. Avid recommends you leave your workspaces
protected. Protection creates a copy of the files you store in a workspace. The
file copy resides on different drives from the original file. When several clients
want to play the same file, the MediaNetwork software steers clients to either
the original or the copy of the file to provide maximum playback performance.
Protection also allows you to rebuild the data on a drive, if one of your drives
should fail.
To create a workspace:
1. Click the Workspace tab in the Administration Tool. See the Avid Unity
MediaNetwork Management Guide for additional information about using
the Administration Tool.
2. Click the turn-down arrow before Partition Disk Set. The allocation group
appears.
3. Click the Allocation Group icon and then click the New Workspace
button. A 1-GB workspace is created.
4. Click the turn-down arrow before the allocation group. The workspace
appears.
5. Click the workspace name, type the name you want for the workspace,
and press Enter. The workspace name changes.
6. Resize the workspace, to make it larger, by pressing the Alt key while
clicking the resize handle and dragging it to the right.
7. Repeat steps 3 to 6 to create as many workspaces as you might need.
8. Leave the Administration Tool running.
You can create as many workspaces as you need to support different projects.
Due to the physical restrictions of drive letters, the LANserver EX3 can only
mount a maximum of 21 workspaces for Ethernet client use.
Configuring the MediaNetwork Software
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