Pinnacle Systems ISIS 2000 - 4.6 User Manual
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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