Date
Revised
Release
Changes Made
12/8/2013
4.6
Avid has added support for Windows v8.1 and Mac OSX v10.9.
10/11/2013
4.5
Release of the 2000 v4.5 Performance Guide
Avid® ISIS® 2000 v4.6
Performance and Redistribution Guide
Change History
This document provides Avid ISIS 2000 performance guidance for the Avid ISIS v4.6 release. Expected per
engine performance and the duration of redistributions have been outlined. This release supports
Symphony/Media Composer v. 7.0.x, v6.5.x, 6.x and 5.5.3.x as well as Interplay Production v3.0 and Interplay
Central v1.6.
Contents
1.0 What’s new for ISIS 2000 in version 4.6 ............................................................................... 3
2.0 What’s new for ISIS 2000 in version 4.5 ............................................................................... 3
3.0 Overview .............................................................................................................................. 4
4.0 Engine Bandwidth ................................................................................................................. 4
5.0 Engine Bandwidth During Initialization/Rebuilds ................................................................... 5
6.0 Performance of Data Movement ........................................................................................... 5
7.0 Data Conversion following the ISIS 2000-240 Engine Upgrade ............................................ 5
8.0 ISIS 2000-120 to ISIS 2000-240 Engine Upgrade ................................................................. 5
9.0 Adding Engines .................................................................................................................... 6
10.0 Editor Hardware and Software Used During Testing ............................................................. 7
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1.0 What’s new for ISIS 2000 in version 4.6
Avid has added support for Windows v8.1 and Mac OSX v10.9.
2.0 What’s new for ISIS 2000 in version 4.5
The following is a list of what is new in ISIS 4.5 as it pertains to ISIS 2000. This is not a complete list of all the
new features for that release. For a full list, see the ISIS 4.5 ReadMe.
The Avid ISIS 7000, Avid ISIS 5500/5000 and Avid ISIS 2000 infrastructures now support clients with
the Windows 8 64-bit operating system.
Note: Version 4.5 will be the last ISIS Client Manager release tested on workstations and laptops with
the Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista Operating Systems. It is recommended that you update
your client Operating Systems to Windows 7 or Windows 8 if you plan to upgrade to future versions of
ISIS software.
The Avid ISIS 7000, Avid ISIS 5500/5000 and Avid ISIS 2000 infrastructures now support Red Hat®
Enterprise Linux®v6.2 and 6.3 clients. 1 Gb and 10 Gb connections are supported. 2 X 1 Gb offers
redundancy with no performance benefit.
The ISIS v4.5 release provides the capability to upgrade a half populated ISIS 2000-120 Engine to a
fully populated ISIS 2000-240 Engine.
The Avid ISIS 2000 system increased the number of Engines supported in the ISIS 2000 environment
from one to five. An ISIS 2000 configuration with five ISIS 2000-240 Engines supports 1.2 PB of shared
storage.
Note: When adding ISIS 2000 Engines to an existing Storage Group or when expanding from 120TB
to 240TB by installing additional drives, a redistribution of the files in the Storage Group is required.
ISIS 2000 clients are permitted to read and write during “Add” redistribution.
ISIS 2000 now supports Redundant System Director configurations providing file system meta data
protection to deliver higher availability.
Mac OSX finder level copy performance and directory navigation improvements: ISIS v4.5 dramatically
increases the performance of copying files to and from ISIS workspaces and allows you to browse
directories with high file counts quickly. Directory browsing performance improvements will only be
realized on newly copied material- any material that was written to ISIS workspaces prior to v4.5 may
exhibit degraded performance until the files are copied to a new ISIS location. Note that moving
workspaces from one storage group to another will not improve performance for browsing existing
directories- the directories and files themselves need to be copied to another location.
Improved CIFS sharing. ISIS v4.5 expands the capabilities of the ISIS File Gateway- you can now
configure all of your workspaces to be shared simultaneously. In previous versions of ISIS, the File
Gateway was limited to sharing 25 workspaces at a time.
The previous releases of Avid ISIS 2000 supported 100 ISIS clients, ISIS v4.5 supports up to 200 ISIS
clients and unlimited Common Internet File System (CIFS) clients.
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3.0 Overview
System
Function
Airspeed 5000/AirSpeed Multi Stream/AirSpeed
Ingest up to 10 streams of DNxHD 145
Symphony/Media Composer/NewsCutter
Consolidate/Transcode/Import/Export
Symphony/Media Composer/Assist
H.264 Proxy Playback 3 Mbps or less: Up to 200 clients
Symphony/Media Composer/NewsCutter
Send to Playback
File Gateway/CIFS
Bandwidth limited to 100 MB/sec. This value can be increased or
decreased if necessary.
Pro Tools
Import/Export
Workflow
Fully Populated Engine
Average Rating (MB/sec)
Half Populated Engine
Average Rating (MB/sec)
All Read
1000
550
All Write
500
250
Mixed
700
350
ISIS 2000 is high density resilient, RAID6 based, nearline storage system that integrates seamlessly into the
ISIS Interplay workflow. The purpose of this section is to provide a performance characterization of an ISIS
2000 Engine configuration. The ISIS 2000 System Director and Engine(s) connect to a separate VLAN on the
Avid Production Network (APN) switch. The Engine requires a 10 Gb link to the APN and the System Director
can either be a 10 Gb or 1 Gb connection to the APN. However, if CIFS or FTP sharing of workspaces is
required, the ISIS 2000 System Director must be connected to the APN via a 10 Gb link. CIFS or FTP sharing
of ISIS 2000 workspaces is not supported with a 1 Gb link. The engine ratings published in this guide can be
achieved whether the System Director is connected via 10 Gb or 1 Gb. Adding an ISIS 2000 nearline system to
your ISIS 7000 or 5000 online environments does not affect the performance guidelines previously stated in
those online environments.
The available bandwidth can be utilized in several different ways. In general, the system supports the following:
ISIS 2000 Supported Workflows
4.0 Engine Bandwidth
The following ratings can be expected on average for a single ISIS 2000 engine. Keep in mind that you may
achieve higher values at times due to the nature and size of the cache available in ISIS 2000. However, the
numbers provided below are what you would expect to see on average for a healthy system.
Engine Rating: Healthy
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5.0 Engine Bandwidth During Initialization/Rebuilds
Workflow
Fully Populated Engine
Average Rating (MB/sec)
Half Populated Engine
Average Rating (MB/sec)
All Read
950
475
All Write
450
225
Mixed
650
325
The ISIS 2000 system is optimized for performance during initialization and rebuilds operations. Because the
system is RAID6 based, with 10 X 8 drive RAID6 arrays, it is possible to sustain up to two drive failures within
any RAID6 array and not lose any data. For a system that is not under load the time it takes for an initialization,
or rebuild, to complete is approximately 72 hours. Load on the system could significantly prolong an
initialization or rebuild process.
Engine Rating: Initialization or Rebuild Conditions
6.0 Performance of Data Movement
One of the common mechanisms for moving data between ISIS 2000 and ISIS 7000 and/or 5000 is via the
Interplay copy/move service. The performance of data moves between these elements will vary greatly. In
general, you can expect to see about 180 - 200 MB/sec on average for project movement. For example, a
project that has 500 GB of media associated to it will take less than one hour, or approximately 45 minutes.
7.0 Data Conversion following the ISIS 2000-240 Engine Upgrade
As part of the 4.2 to 4.5 upgrade on an ISIS 2000-240 engine an additional Storage Manager is created. As a
result of this change the existing data on the engine has to be redistributed across the two Storage Managers
in preparation for future resiliency. This process is also called data conversion. This process only applies to a
fully populated ISIS 2000-240. This redistribution of data occurs at a rate of approximately 800 gigabytes per
hour on an internal bus. During this movement the system can be used up to 50% of the engine rating.
Because the data conversion occurs internally, the external load has little impact on the conversion process.
8.0 ISIS 2000-120 to ISIS 2000-240 Engine Upgrade
Avid offers an ISIS 2000 Engine with 42 media drives. This is 120 terabytes (TB) of raw storage
and equates to 96 TB of usable storage. ISIS v4.5 provides the capability to update this ISIS
2000-120 to ISIS 2000-240. The media drives are configured for RAID 6 storage protection with
two spares that automatically initiate a repair if a drive failure occurs.
The ISIS 2000-120 Engine configuration functions exactly like the fully populated ISIS 2000-240 Engine. ISIS
2000 Engines connect to an ISIS 7000 or ISIS 5500 switch using a 10 Gb connection and in a separate
subnet. The ISIS 2000 Management Console provides the same workspace and user functionality offered in all
ISIS environments. Clients access any combination of ISIS online systems (ISIS 5500 and ISIS 7000) and ISIS
near-line systems (ISIS 2000) system through external switch connections. The ISIS 2000 near-line system
workflows provides basic video playback of low bit rate media and high-speed file transfers to online ISIS
systems. The ISIS 2000-120 Engine has a unique drive placement between the two drawers. For instructions
on installing the media drives Engines, see the Avid ISIS 2000 Setup Guide Once you have updated your ISIS
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2000-120 infrastructure to the latest ISIS software, that is when to update add the 40 new drives (120 TB) to
1 to 2 Engines
2 to 3 Engines
3 to 4 Engines
4 to 5 Engines
No Load
42
61
95
114
50% Mixed Load
57
78
117
156
4.2 to 4.5 Data
Conversion or
120 TB to 240
TB update
1 to 2 Engines
2 to 3 Engines
3 to 4 Engines
4 to 5 Engines
All Read
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
50% Mixed Load
350
700
1050
1400
1750
All Write
250
500
750
1000
1250
the existing ISIS 2000-120 Engine and Bind the new Storage Manager. After the new Storage Manager is
Bound, you can add additional ISIS 2000 Engines and Bind them. Then select all your new Storage Managers
and do a single Add redistribution.
9.0 Adding Engines
The ISIS 4.5 release supports up to 5 ISIS 2000 engine. You can add a single or multiple engines to an
existing Storage Group at any given time. The process of adding an engine to an existing Storage Group will
cause a redistribution to evenly distribute the existing data, and new data, across all the engines present in that
Storage Group. When doing so the rating, the amount of client load that can be applied, for the new Storage
Group is equal to 50% of the rating for the total number of engines present. For example, if you are going from
2 to 3 fully populated engines, the rating during the redistribution of data to those engines would be 975
MB/sec, or 325 times 3. For specific add redistribution time please see section 4.1.
The data in Table 1 is presented in hours. The 50% mixed load is based on the number of Storage Elements
that will be present in the Storage Group following the Add. For example, if you are adding a fifth engine to a
four engine group then the 50% mixed load that is supported is 1750 MB/sec, or 5 X 350 MB/sec.
Table 1: Add Redistribution at 50% capacity before Add (hours)
Table 2: Engine ratings during Redistribution
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10.0 Editor Hardware and Software Used During Testing
Platform
OS
CPU
Memory
Editor Version
ISIS Client
HP z820
Windows 8.1
64-bit
Windows 7
64-bit SP1
8 Core 2.7 GHz
Intel Xeon
16 GB
Media Composer 7.0
Media Composer 6.5
Media Composer 6.0
v4.6
Lenovo C30
Windows 8.1
64-bit
Windows 7
64-bit SP1
8 Core 2.2 GHz
Intel Xeon
16 GB
Media Composer 7.0
Media Composer 6.5
Media Composer 6.0
v4.6
HP z800
Windows 8.1
64-bit
Windows 7
64-bit SP1
6 Core 2.67GHz Intel
Xeon
12 GB
Media Composer 7.0
Media Composer 6.5
Media Composer 6.0
v4.6
HP z820
Red Hat Linux
6.2/6.3
8 Core 2.7 GHz
Intel Xeon
16 GB
N/A
v4.6
HP z420
Windows 8.1
64-bit
Windows 7
64-bit SP1
6 Core 3.20 GHz Intel
Xeon
8 GB
Media Composer 7.0
Media Composer 6.5
Media Composer 6.0
v4.6
Lenovo S30
Windows 8.1
64-bit
Windows 7
64-bit SP1
6 Core 3.20 GHz Intel
Xeon
16 GB
Media Composer 7.0
Media Composer 6.5
Media Composer 6.0
v4.6
HP z400
Windows 8.1
64-bit
Windows 7
64-bit SP1
6 Core 3.33GHz Intel
Xeon
12 GB
Media Composer 7.0
Media Composer 6.5
Media Composer 6.0
Media Composer 5.5
v4.6
HP Z230*
Windows 8.1
64-bit
4 Core E3-1245 v3 3.40
GHz Intel Xeon
8 GB
Media Composer 7.0
v4.6
Dell T-1700*
Windows 8.1
64-bit
4 Core E3-1245 v3 3.40
GHz Intel Xeon
8 GB
Media Composer 7.0
v4.6
Lenovo E32*
Windows 8.1
64-bit
4 Core E3-1245 v3 3.40
GHz Intel Xeon
8 GB
Media Composer 7.0
v4.6
HP Z220
Windows 7
64-bit SP1
4 Core E3-1245 3.40
GHz Intel Xeon
8 GB
Media Composer 7.0
Media Composer 6.5
Media Composer 6.0
Media Composer 5.5
v4.6
HP Z210
Windows 7
64-bit SP1
4 Core E31270 3.40 GHz
Intel Xeon
4 GB
Media Composer 7.0
Media Composer 6.5
v4.6
The following chart describes the hardware and software used during testing this release. This table does not
reflect all platforms that are supported.
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Platform
OS
CPU
Memory
Editor Version
ISIS Client
Media Composer 6.0
Media Composer 5.5
HP 8570w
Windows 7
64-bit SP1
i7-3820QM 2.7 GHz
8 GB
Media Composer 7.0
Media Composer 6.5
Media Composer 6.0
Media Composer 5.5
v4.6
HP 8760w
Windows 7
64-bit SP1
4 Core 2.3 GHz
Intel i7
4 GB
Media Composer 7.0
Media Composer 6.5
Media Composer 6.0
Media Composer 5.5
v4.6
Dell M6600
Windows 7
64-bit SP1
4 Core 2.20 GHz Intel i7
4 GB
Media Composer 7.0
Media Composer 6.5
Media Composer 6.0
Media Composer 5.5
v4.6
Mac Pro
(Westmere)
10.8.5 – 10.9
2 X 2.6 GHz 6 Core Intel
Xeon
12 GB
Media Composer 7.0
Media Composer 6.5
Media Composer 6.0
Media Composer 5.5
v4.6
Mac Pro
(Westmere)
10.8.5 – 10.9
2 X 2.4 GHz Quad Core
Intel Xeon
6 GB
Media Composer 7.0
Media Composer 6.5
Media Composer 6.0
Media Composer 5.5
v4.6
MacBook Pro 15"
10.8.5 – 10.9
2.3/2.6/2.7 GHz I7 quad
core Retina &
Thunderbolt
8 GB
Media Composer 6.5
v4.6
Mac Pro
(Nehalem)
10.8.5 – 10.9
2 x 2.66 GHz Dual-Core
Intel Xeon
6 GB
Media Composer 7.0
Media Composer 6.5
Media Composer 6.0
Media Composer 5.5
v4.6
iMac
10.8.5 – 10.9
3.6 GHz Intel Core i5
4 GB
Media Composer 7.0
Media Composer 6.5
v4.6
Airspeed 5000
Windows 7
64-bit SP1
2 X 2.4 GHz 6 Core
24 GB
2.1
v4.6
AMS
1.8.7
v4.6
* Platform requires the Intel 18.3 driver family or later. The 18.3 kit is not included with the ISIS 4.5 release, but
has been made available at Avid’s Download Center. The ISIS 4.6 kit includes the 18.6 driver family.
Capabilities and limitations for the individuals systems listed above can be found on Avid’s Knowledge Base.
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