HP Z800 manual Connecting Storage, Connecting Media Storage, Overview

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Topics in this chapter:

■Connecting Media Storage on page 29

■Connecting Archiving Storage on page 37

Connecting Media Storage

Overview

The workstation can be connected to two types of media storage.

■Stone Direct XR-series disk arrays Autodesk's high-performance direct-attached storage (DAS) solution designed to address the different real-time playback requirements of various workflows. Direct attached storage devices provide storage to individual workstations, and can be made available to other Autodesk Visual Effects and Finishing workstations via the Autodesk Wire network.

NOTE A Lustre workstation equipped with Incinerator does not use DAS storage. Incinerator storage is attached to the Lustre Media Server, accessed by way of the InfiniBand network.

■A SAN A storage infrastructure that allows multiple workstations to share simultaneous access to a central storage enclosure.

About Autodesk Stone Direct Storage

Autodesk Stone Direct XR-series disk arrays provide two types of enclosures: a RAID enclosure (also called an XR enclosure), and an EBOD enclosure (also called an XE enclosure). XR RAID enclosures contain two RAID controllers.

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