Connecting And Configuring The Atto Fibre Channel Adapter; Connecting Archive Storage; Configuring The Archiving Device - HP xw8600 Hardware Setup Manual

NOTE Lustre with Incinerator doesn't need local storage and uses InfiniBand to connect Incinerator.

Connecting and Configuring the ATTO Fibre Channel Adapter

Your workstation is configured with a 4-port ATTO Celerity FC-44ES fibre channel adapter in PCI slot four.
On the HP xw8600 workstation the PCI slots are numbered one to seven from top to bottom. Consult the
Peripherals Connection Diagram as a reference for the ATTO fibre channel adapter location.
QLA2344 or
FC44-ES
FC adapter

Connecting Archive Storage

NOTE This section does not apply to Lustre.
For data archiving, your Visual Effects and Finishing application supports the following devices:
USB 2 and FireWire
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(Mac ) file systems. NTFS is not supported.
Fibre channel devices that use standard UNIX tape device calls.
The fibre channel devices that may be used are the ones for which the vendor confirms the following:
The device driver is compliant with standard UNIX tape device calls.
The device is certified for use with the specific versions of your operating system and kernel, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux Workstation 4.0, Update 3.
While Autodesk Media & Entertainment makes no certification statement about any device, the following
SCSI devices have been tested and found to be reliable when connected using an ATTO Fibre Channel to
SCSI Bridge 2390:
Quantum LT03
Quantum DLT8000
Quantum DLT7000
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Sony
Sony AIT2

Configuring the Archiving Device

The software initialization file (init.cfg) for your Visual Effects and Finishing application contains examples
of the use of the ClipMgtDevice Tape keywords. Use these examples to select a block size value for your tape
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(IEEE 1394) attached devices. They can be formatted as XFS, ext2, ext3, or HFS
AIT3 SDX-D700C
FC loop 2
To storage assembly
FC loop 3
FC loop 4
To archiving device or SAN
FC loop 1
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