Pinnacle Systems ISIS 7000 - 2.4 Setup Guide

Avid® ISIS® 7000

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Avid ISIS 7000 Setup Guide •0130-30622-01 Rev. B• July 2011 • Created 7/28/11

Using This Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Accessing the Online Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Chapter 1 Avid Software and Hardware Install Checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Software Upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Hardware Upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

New System Director and Engine Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Switch and ISB Upgrade Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Recreating a File Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Chapter 1 Avid ISIS 7000 System Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Hardware Overview and Naming Convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

System Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

System Director Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

System Director Rear Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Second System Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Engine Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Engine Rear View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Integrated Ethernet Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Storage Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Storage Group Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Chunk Size Support With ISB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Adding an ISB to the File System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Adding or Removing ISBs (Mirrored or RAID). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Moving Workspaces Between Storage Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Mirrored Storage Groups, Single ISB Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

RAID-6 Storage Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

RAID-6 Storage Groups, Single ISB Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

RAID-6 Storage Groups, Dual ISB Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Automatic Redistribution on Disk Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Network Zone Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Zone 1 Clients (Direct Connected). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Zone 2 Clients (Indirect Connect) Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Zone 1 and Zone 2 Clients Mixed Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Zone 3 and Zone 4 Client Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Link Aggregation Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Connecting the Engine CX-4 Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Removing the Avid Engine Interconnect Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

10-Gb Link Aggregation Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Supported in Link Aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Load Balancing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Failover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Recommended Topologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Supported Functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Other Functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Chapter 2 Connecting the ISIS Equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Rack-Mounting the Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Rack-Mounting Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Installing Rack-Mount Rails and Brackets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Rack-mount Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Positioning the server in the Rack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Separating the Slide Rails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Attaching Inner Slide Rails to the System Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Attaching the Outer Rails to a Square-Hole Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Attaching the Outer Rails to a Round-Hole Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Securing the System Director in a Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Mounting the Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Installing Blades and Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Installing IXS and ISS Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Connecting a Keyboard, Monitor, and Mouse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Connecting the Application Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Connecting Power to Equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Connecting Power Cords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Three 20-Amp V AC Circuits for Three Engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Three 20-Amp V AC Circuits for Two Engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Two 20-Amp V AC Circuits for Two Engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Turning System On and Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Connecting ISIS Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Engine Configuration v2.x Hardware Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Setting-Up Network Addresses In the Stack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Two-Engine Stacking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Three- to Twelve-Engine Stacking Summary With v2.x Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Three- to Twelve-Engine Connections With v2.x Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Hi-Gig Link Aggregation Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Chapter 3 Installing Software and Configuring 10-Gb Link Aggregation . . . . . . . . . . 83

IP Addressing Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Configuration Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Software Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Loading the Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Product Recovery Needs to be Copied to the USB Flash Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Installing the Application Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Creating a Active Partition on the System Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Installing Software on the Engines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Engine Does Not Appear in Add Chassis List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Check Switch IP Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Java Runtime Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Loading Client Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Installing Macintosh Client Software Using Safari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Loading and Configuring Client software for Zone 3 Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Avid Interplay Authentication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Configuring a 10-Gb Link Aggregation Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Chapter 4 Configuring Two Stacks of ISIS Engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

ISIS Two Stack Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

External Switch Link Aggregation Connection Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

IP Address Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

IP Addressing With Two Stacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Static IP Addresses Available . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Connecting Two Stacks of Engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Setting-Up Two Stacks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Reconfiguring One Stack into Two Stacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Chapter 5 Configuring the System for Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

System Director Failover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Enabling a System Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Adding a System Director to an Existing File System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Setting IP Addresses for Crossover Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Stop the Active System Director and Set Up the Failover Connection. . . . . . . . . . 119

Binding Order for Health Monitoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Creating New Standby File System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Restarting Existing System Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Stopping and Restarting System Directors During Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Creating Failover with Two New Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Setting IP Addresses for Crossover Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Configuring Failover Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Creating New File Systems on the Active and Standby System Directors . . . . . . . . . . 130

Chapter 6 Status LEDs and Stacking Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

LED Locations and Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

LED Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Recovering from Stacking Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Set One Switch Back to Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Rebuilding the Stack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Appendix A Avid ISIS 7000 Upgrade Guidelines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Health Check. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Software Upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Component Requirements From Previous Releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Upgrade Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Avid ISIS Software Installation From the USB Flash Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Intel Network Driver and BIOS Update. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

64-bit System Director BIOS Upgrade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Intel RAID Controller Driver Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Application Key Driver Update on the System Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Record IP Addresses on the System Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

System Director Intel Pro Driver Configuration Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Enabling Windows Updates on 64-Bit System Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Post Upgrade System Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Preupgrade Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Zone 2 Switch Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

System Director Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

ISIS Engine/Switch Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

On Site Spares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Spares Checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Additional spares for a comprehensive spares parts list: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Switch Hardware Revision Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Appendix B Avid ISIS Upgrade Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Overview and Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Functional Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Software Component Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Software Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

FTP Server Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Install Control Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Monitoring Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Running the Avid ISIS Upgrade Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Appendix C Configuring Switch Redundancy for Workgroup Servers. . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Media Browse and CountDown Failover Process. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Configuration Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Network Teaming Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Appendix D Avid ISIS Recommended Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Minimum Storage Space Requirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Daily Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Weekly Maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Monthly Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Redistribution Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Saving ISIS Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Available Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Client Manager Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Status Indicators and Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Complete Server Room Shutdown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Appendix E Adding and Replacing Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Adding Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Switch Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Adding an Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Engine Replacement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Replacing an Internal System Director Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Replacing the System Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Appendix F Using the Product Recovery USB for 64-bit System Directors. . . . . . . . . 195

Creating a Product Recovery USB Flash Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Reinstalling the Windows Storage Server 2008 Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Configuring the System Drive Using Windows 2008 Storage Server Setup . . . . . . . . . 199

Configuration Settings Not In The Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Administrative User Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Network Port Configuration Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Appendix G Specifications and Notices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Dimensions and Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Electrical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Supported Cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Appendix H Safety and Regulatory Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Warnings and Cautions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

FCC Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Class A Equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Modifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Canadian Notice (Avis Canadien) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Class A Equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

LED Safety Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

European Union Declaration of Conformity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Disposal of Waste Equipment by Users in the European Union. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Argentina Conformity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Australia and New Zealand EMC Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Japan EMC Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Class A Equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Korean EMC Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Class A Equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Taiwan EMC Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Using This Guide

The Avid ISIS® media network provides a high-performance distributed file system that contains high-capacity shared media storage for workgroups of connected Avid

This document describes the features for all Avid ISIS 7000 shared storage networks. Therefore,

your system might not contain certain features that are covered in the documentation.

Symbols and Conventions

Avid documentation uses the following symbols and conventions:

Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action

> This symbol indicates menu commands (and subcommands) in the

A note provides important related information, reminders, recommendations, and strong suggestions.

A caution means that a specific action you take could cause harm to your computer or cause you to lose data.

A warning describes an action that could cause you physical harm. Follow the guidelines in this document or on the unit itself when handling electrical equipment.

order you select them. For example, File > Import means to open the File menu and then select the Import command.

editing workstations.

This symbol indicates a single-step procedure. Multiple arrows in a list indicate that you perform one of the actions listed.

(Windows), (Windows only), (Macintosh), or (Macintosh only)

Bold font Bold font is primarily used in task instructions to identify user interface

Italic font Italic font is used to emphasize certain words and to indicate variables.

Courier Bold font

This text indicates that the information applies only to the specified operating system, either Windows or Macintosh OS X.

items and keyboard sequences.

Courier Bold font identifies text that you type.

Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action

Ctrl+key or mouse action Press and hold the first key while you press the last key or perform the

If You Need Help

If you are having trouble using your Avid product:

1. Retry the action, carefully following the instructions given for that task in this guide. It is especially important to check each step of your workflow.

2. Check the latest information that might have become available after the documentation was published.

New information would be found in the ReadMe file supplied on your Avid software installation kit as a PDF document and is also available online.

You should always check online for the most up-to-date release notes or ReadMe because the online version is updated whenever new information becomes available. To

view the online versions, visit the Knowledge Base at www.avid.com/US/support.

3. Check the documentation that came with your Avid application or your hardware for maintenance or hardware-related issues.

If You Need Help

mouse action. For example, Command+Option+C or Ctrl+drag.

4. Visit the online Knowledge Base at www.avid.com/US/support. Online services are available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Search this online Knowledge Base to find answers, to view error messages, to access troubleshooting tips, to download updates, and to read or join online message-board discussions.

Accessing the Online Documentation

The Avid ISIS online documentation contains all the product documentation in PDF format. You can access the documentation in the AvidISISDocumentation folder on the Avid ISIS installer kit. You need to download and install Acrobat Reader on your Avid ISIS 5000 before you can access the PDF documentation.

You need to download and install Acrobat Reader on your Avid ISIS 5000 before you can access

the PDF documentation.

To access the online documentation from the installer kit:

1. Insert your Avid ISIS USB flash drive with the Avid ISIS software kit into the USB port.

2. Navigate to the [USB flash drive]:\.AvidISISDocumentation folder, and double-click the PDF file for the document you want to view.

Avid Training Services

Avid makes lifelong learning, career advancement, and personal development easy and convenient. Avid understands that the knowledge you need to differentiate yourself is always changing, and Avid continually updates course content and offers new training delivery methods that accommodate your pressured and competitive work environment.

For information on courses/schedules, training centers, certifications, courseware, and books, please visit www.avid.com/support and follow the Training links, or call Avid Sales at 800-949-AVID (800-949-2843).

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Checklist

The following checklists summarizes the major steps for upgrading your software and hardware. These checklists are for experienced administrators that acts as a reminder of the tasks that need to be done in each upgrade. If you are not experienced with Avid ISIS, you should read this entire book first before installing or configuring the Avid ISIS.

Each Avid ISIS release could have different upgrade requirements, you must read the upgrade details in the ReadMe for each software release.

For detailed instructions on performing upgrades, see “Avid ISIS 7000 Upgrade Guidelines” on

page 137.

Software Upgrade

This section list the components and procedures to follow when performing a software upgrade from Avid ISIS v1.4 and later to the current release. This does not include adding hardware. In Avid ISIS v2.1.1 and later, Avid ISIS clients need to be upgraded before you upgrade the infrastructure. This is necessary because ISIS client software before v2.1.1 is not supported in the ISIS v2.1.1 infrastructure. Although, v2.1.1 client software is supported in v1.4 and later infrastructures. Once the clients have been upgraded, you can upgrade Avid ISIS v2.1.1 infrastructure.

If you are upgrading from a version earlier than Avid ISIS v1.4, you must first upgrade to Avid

ISIS v1.4 before upgrading to v2.1.1, For instructions, see the v1.4 documentation.

The clients are defined as follows:

• Avid editing applications

• Interplay Assist and Instinct

• Interplay Access

• Avid Approved Applications Initiative such as Pro Tools and Final Cut Pro

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The infrastructure is defined as follows:

• System Director — System Director software and upgrade Storage Blades (ISBs) and Switch Blades (ISS/ISXs) in the Avid ISIS engines to the v2.1.1 firmware

• Interplay servers — Interplay Engine, Interplay Media Indexer, Interplay Transfer, and CaptureManager

• Capture devices — AirSpeed, AirSpeed Multi Stream, and Avid Interplay Low-Res Encoder

Use the following checklist for a software upgrade:

Avid ISIS Software Upgrade

Complete To be done



Upgrade your Avid ISIS Clients, see “Loading Client Software” on page 98.

Before installing the new client software, save the client settings and preferences. Depending on your Avid ISIS version, different Preferences settings are saved when upgrading. For more information on what is saved per version, see the Avid ISIS 7000 ReadMe.

Perform a Failover first to make sure both subnetworks are functioning and have updated metadata.

Shut down the Standby System Director Service first, then shut down the Active System Director Service.

This checklist assumes you have two System Directors. Completely update one

of the System Directors (allowing it to become the Active after it restarts), then repeat the procedure on the second System Director (allowing it to become the Standby). If you do not have two System Directors, you need only install the software once.

Uninstall the Avid ISIS System Director software using the Windows Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs.

Uninstall the “AvidUnityISISInstallers” using the Windows Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs.

If you do not uninstall the old Avid ISIS Installers, the old installers remain in

the list with the new installers. Only the latest client software installers should be available from the ISIS Management Console.

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Check ReadMe to see if your Java Runtime is at the supported version for the new software and update as necessary. You might need to update the Adobe software and Intel

network interface driver as well.

Flash®

Avid ISIS Software Upgrade

Complete To be done

Hardware Upgrade



Install your Avid ISIS software on the System Director, see “Loading the Software”

on page 87 and “Software Upgrade” on page 139.

Copy your Avid ISIS client installers on your System Director, see “Loading Client

Software” on page 98.

Upgrade all your ISBs, ISSs, and IXSs. Using the ISIS Management Console, select all the ISBs and click Upgrade Storage Blades and then select all your ISSs and IXSs and click Upgrade Switch Blades. You do not need to wait for the ISBs to be finished. ISBs, ISSs, and IXSs can be upgrading at the same time. For more information, see

“Installing Software on the Engines” on page 94.

Watch the upgrade in the Monitoring tool.

ISIS v2.0 — wait until every ISS is at the “Install Waiting” state and then power down all the Avid ISIS engines.

Power on the Avid ISIS engines in 1 minute intervals starting with the chassis that has the IXSs. This reduces stress on the stack.

After the Avid ISIS engines restart, the ISSs continue with the install (no additional user intervention is necessary).

For information on the Monitoring tool, see the Avid ISIS 7000 Administration Guide.

Make the newly upgraded System Director your Active System Director.

Perform these same procedures on the Standby System Director.

Hardware Upgrade

The firmware in the Avid ISIS hardware (ISBs and ISSs) is updated during the software upgrade. The firmware is updated using the ISIS Management Console. You select all the ISBs and click Upgrade Storage Blades and then select all your ISSs and click Upgrade Switch Blades. ISBs and ISSs can be upgrading at the same time. For more information, see “Installing Software on

the Engines” on page 94.

If adding an engine to an existing system, see “Adding an Engine” on page 187.

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New System Director and Engine Installation

Use the following checklist when setting up an Avid ISIS for the first time:

Avid ISIS New Installation

Complete To be done



Determine Network Address Scheme

Configure SD IP Addresses, see “IP Addressing Overview” on page 83.

• ISIS Left

• ISIS Right

• Management Port

In the 64-bit System Director, you need to change your default Internet Explorer 7 Security and Advance tab settings:

Click Tools > Internet Options and change the Security to the following:

• Internet - Medium

• Trusted - Low

Click the Advanced tab and change the following:

• Phishing Filter - Disabled

• Use SSL 2.0 - Enabled (checked)

• Use TLS 1.0 - Disabled (unchecked)

Install System Director and Installers, see “Software Installation” on page 87.

Create File Systems, see the Avid ISIS 7000 Administration Guide.

• Open System Director Control Panel

• Click “Stop System Director”

• Go to “Configuration” tab

• Click “Create New Active”



Configure the first Engine (IP Addresses), see the Avid ISIS 7000 Administration Guide.

• Start ISS Agent via Management port

• Under System > Basic set IP Address

Connect the System Director to Engine number1, see “Connecting ISIS Hardware”

on page 70.

Avid ISIS New Installation

Complete To be done

Switch and ISB Upgrade Utility



Add Additional engine, see “Adding an Engine” on page 187.

Upgrade ISB and ISS, see “Installing Software on the Engines” on page 94.

Add Storage Elements, see the Avid ISIS 7000 Administration Guide.

Create Storage Groups, see the Avid ISIS 7000 Administration Guide.

Create Workspaces, see the Avid ISIS 7000 Administration Guide.

Create Users, see the Avid ISIS 7000 Administration Guide.

Switch and ISB Upgrade Utility

The Switch and ISB Upgrade Utility is a stand-alone application that allows field engineers to perform switch and ISB upgrades from a laptop connected to Avid ISIS through the management port, and monitor the upgrade progress. This utility does not replace the current upgrade process. Its primary function is for upgrading a switch or a pair of switches that is incompatible with an existing stacked network. Insertion of these switches into the network before the upgrade could disrupt or compromise the network’s operation.

The typical procedure for loading the firmware on switches consists of selecting them with the Avid ISIS Management Console and initiating an automated upgrade. This process is very useful when upgrading a new or very interoperable Avid ISIS switch stack, see “Installing Software on

the Engines” on page 94.

To start the utility, insert the Avid ISIS installer DVD into a laptop’s DVD drive and double-click AvidUtilityISISTool.msi located in the following location.

DVD drive:\ISISUtilities

For Instructions on using the utility, see “Avid ISIS Upgrade Utility” on page 165.

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Recreating a File Systems

Deleting and creating a new file system is not common but if it is needed, this checklist provides the order and tasks to be completed. All of the tasks listed in this checklist are described in the Avid ISIS 7000 Administration Guide.

Use the following checklist when deleting and recreating a new file system:

Deleting and Creating a File System

Complete To be done



Delete all files in all Workspace

Delete Workspaces

Delete Storage Group

Remove Storage Elements

Delete / Create New Active

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The Avid ISIS® system enables multiple clients to capture, play, and edit video and audio media. This chapter provides an overview of the Avid ISIS 7000 system and the basic function of each Avid hardware component within the system.

This guide describes how to connect cables between components that create a basic system and then how to connect more than one basic system together to create a larger, redundant system.

For a explanation of what you need to do to prepare your site for installation of a Avid ISIS

system, see the Avid Products and Network Site Preparation Guide on the Avid Knowledge Base or included in the documentation folder on the top level of the Avid ISIS installer software installer kit.

Hardware Overview and Naming Convention

Each system component has a specific Avid name that define their function. It is important that you are familiar with these terms while using the documentation. The following table, used in conjunction with the figure that follows the table, provides the actual nomenclature and the terms used in this guide to describe that nomenclature:

Product Nomenclature

Product name Term used and description

Avid ISIS shared storage network System or shared network storage environment

The Avid ISIS consist of the hardware, Avid software, and other hardware supplied by the customer, such as external Ethernet

Avid ISIS client Client, defined as a user’s workstation or server with

Avid ISIS client software that allows that system to mount workspaces

Avid ISIS storage blade (labeled i500, i1000, i2000)

ISIS Storage Blade (ISB)

This hot swappable sled is accessible from the front of the ISIS engine and contains two SATA drives.

switches.

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Product Nomenclature

Product name Term used and description

Avid ISIS Integrated Ethernet switch blade ISIS Integrated Switch (ISS)

This hot swappable switch is accessible from the rear of the ISIS engine and connects 1 Gb and 10 Gb clients. The ISS2000 indicates second generation hardware; first generation hardware is labeled ISS1000.

Avid ISIS Expansion Integrated Ethernet switch blade

Integrated power supply and cooling fans Power supplies

Avid ISIS engine Called Chassis in the software interface

Avid ISIS System Director (Active and standby)

ISIS Expansion Switch (IXS)

This hot swappable switch is accessible from the rear of the ISIS engine is used to stack multiple ISIS engines. The IXS2000 indicates second generation hardware; first generation hardware is labeled IXS1000.

Three hot swappable power supplies are accessible from the rear of the ISIS engine.Two power supplies is required to power the ISIS engines.

Contains the ISBs, ISSs, IXSs, power supplies, and an internal midplane.

System Director, a server connected to the ISIS engine to manage the data and portions of the metadata

Although there are many components in Avid ISIS shared storage network, the basic components needed to create the system are a System Director, an engine containing ISIS Integrated Switch (ISS), ISIS Expansion Switch (IXS), ISIS Storage Blades (ISB), and one or more clients.

The second generation ISIS switches are branded with an ISX2000 and ISS2000 silk-screen. These switches cannot be mixed in ISIS engines with earlier versions of the switches (labeled ISX1000 and ISS1000). If your ISX and ISS switches are not labeled, consider them the earlier versions.

You cannot mix new switches (labeled ISX2000 and ISS2000) with original switch hardware (labeled ISX1000 and ISS1000). All switches in the engine, and engines in the stack must be from the same generation of hardware.

System Director

System Director front view

Rear view

Front view

ISIS Integrated Switch (ISS)

ISIS Integrated Expansion Switch (IXS)

ISIS Storage Blade (ISB)

Power supply

Engine

The Avid ISIS documentation refers to ISX2000 and ISS2000 switches as v2.x hardware and ISX1000 and ISS1000 switches as v1.x hardware.

Basic Avid ISIS 7000 Shared Storage Network Hardware

The following sections explain these components and some basic client configurations:

• System Director

• Engine

• Storage Configurations

• Automatic Redistribution on Disk Failure

• Client

• Network Zone Configurations

• Cabling

System Director

The System Director is 1U in size (see “System Director Front Panel” on page 24) and manages the metadata by storing directory information and file attributes. The System Director does not store the data used by share clients (for example media files), these data files are stored on the ISBs within the engine.

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The System Director password is preset to is-admin. Not not to be confused with the System

Director Web Page Administrator user whose default password is blank.

You can have two System Directors configured in a redundant configuration, one Active the other Standby. If the Active System Director goes down, the Standby System Director takes over. You need at least one System Director to run the Avid ISIS system.

System Directors, workgroup servers, and clients must all be synchronized with a common time-of-day. For information on setting the Network Time Protocol (NTP), see “Setting-Up

Network Addresses In the Stack” on page 71.

The System Director provides a location to coordinate file access modes (read/write), file locking, range locking, performance data collection, logging, file lookup, and directory change tracking for client systems. Examples of what the System Director is able to provide to a client or storage element are:

• Identity of all storage elements connected to the system

• Information about the ISS and IXS modules in the configuration.

• List of workspaces to include name and their unique ID number

• List of users and groups within the system

• Identity of all System Directors in the system (if you have more than one System Director)

System Director Front Panel

The following figure shows the front view and control panel of the System Director.

System Director Front View

HALT

System disk (ID 1)System disk (ID 0)

The following table describes the control panel shown in the previous figure.

BCA

RST

GHDFE

Control panel

System Director

System Control Panel

Letter Component Description

A Universal Serial Bus (USB) port USB 2.0 device port on the front of the system supports one USB

device. Recommended for use when re-imaging the system drives or loading software. Two more USB ports are located on the back of the system.

B Halt or Non-maskable interrupt

(NMI) button

C System reset button Preforms a soft reset when pressed. Do not use this button unless the

D Four green network activity

LEDs

E Red System error LED Illuminates red when an error is detected with the system (fan, power

F System Drive activity LED Indicates drive activity from the onboard SATA controller and blinks

G System ID button When pressed it illuminates (blinks) blue and also illuminates an

The halt or NMI signal halts the processor, which effectively halts the server. A NMI is the highest priority interrupt and cannot be masked by software.

If the Halt/NMI button is pressed, the NMI signal locks the

system and the system must be restarted to clear the interrupt.

system has had a fatal error and you need to restart. A soft reset restarts the system; it clears all active program memory (you lose unsaved work) and shuts down all active programs.

Illuminates green when a good network connection is established and blinks when there is network activity on the four built-in 1-GB network ports.

The number beside the LED corresponds with the number beside the network port on the rear of the enclosure. For example, Connector 1 is LED 1 on the front. See “System Director Rear Panel” on page 26.

supply, temperature, voltage).

when either of the system drives is being accessed.

LED on the rear of the enclosure. The rear LED is also blue and is visible on the lower left-hand side of the Ethernet ports inside of the enclosure. It is used to identify a system for servicing when it is installed in a high-density rack/cabinet populated with several other similar systems.

H Power button Press to power on the enclosure. Power button illuminates green

when the power is on.

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System Director Rear Panel

The following figure shows the rear panel of the System Director and the function of each connection.

System Director Rear View

Power supplies

Second System Director

You can purchase a second System Director and configure it on the same subnets as the original System Director. This provides a redundant System Director that is in constant contact with the original System Director. The second System Director automatically takes over if the original System Director fails (called failover).

For true redundancy it is recommended that you connect the second System Director to a

different engine than the first System Director. The Active and the Standby System Directors must be the same model server, you cannot mix SR2400s, SR2500s, and AS3000 servers.

Slots not used

Serial 1 Gb Ethernet VideoUSB

Engine

Fifth ISB

First ISB

The engine contains the ISBs, ISSs, IXSs, power supplies, and an internal midplane. The engine stores the data created and shared by the clients. The data is passed in and out of the engine through the switches.

The engine contains:

• ISBs can support either 250 GB, 500 GB, or 1 terabytes (TB) drives, with two drives in each

• An ISS provides connections for clients via 1000BASE-T Ethernet ports. A 10-Gb Ethernet

• An IXS used when you have more than two engines (need an IXS for each subnet), allowing

Engine

ISB. The size of the drives are identified by the label on the front of the ISB (i500, i1000, or i2000, respectively). As technology advances, the storage capacity of the drives could increase, allowing the total storage per ISB/engine to increase.

port using SFP+ transceivers connects clients or serves as an uplink port. There is an engine interconnect port and a management port for configuration. See “Integrated Ethernet

Switches” on page 29.

you to connect multiple engines providing up to 384 TB of storage, or 192 TB of mirrored storage. See “Integrated Ethernet Switches” on page 29.

Engine Front View

The front of the engine allows access to the 16 ISBs. The first is in the upper left portion of the front and the last ISB is in the lower right.

Each ISB can be removed and replaced separately with the power on.

If you replace an ISB with power on, the LEDs in all of the ISBs go off momentarily. This does

not represent a problem. All functions are still active and working properly.

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Power supplies

IXS moduleISS module

1234 5678

12 345 6

7 8 9 10 11

Engine Rear View

The following figure shows the rear of the engine in a configuration that contains the following:

• Three power supplies (with fans)

• Integrated Switch blade (ISS)

• Integrated Expansion Switch blade (IXS)

In a basic configuration containing two engines, each of the engines contains two ISS

modules. The IXS module is used with an ISS module in an engine only when the configuration goes beyond two engines.

Power Supplies

The power supplies are powered on when the power cord is plugged in; they do not have power switches. The power supplies not only provide power, but they also contain fans that cool the system. The system only needs two of three power supplies to supply the needed power to function properly. You can remove and replace a power supply temporarily while the system is running if one fails.

You should leave the failing power supply in place until you replace the failing power supply. Replace the power supply as soon as possible to maintain the proper airflow. Do not remove the failing supply until immediately before you replace it.

Only trained Avid technicians should remove and replace the power supply while the system is running. Since power to the system is still applied internally to the midplane you must always keep your hands external to the engine when a power supply is missing from the engine.

Integrated Ethernet Switches

High speed engine interconnect (Hi-Gig)

Link

Activity

Management connection

Link

Activity

10-Gb connection

1-Gb connections

Status

123 4 5678

ACT LINK

10 GIG

The two integrated Ethernet switches, ISS and IXS, serve different purposes and contain different types of connections. You must have at least two switches in each engine for the system to operate.

ISS Module

The connections on the ISS module are used for the following:

• Management connection — used to configure the Avid ISIS 7000 engine hardware during installation. This information is used by Avid representatives to originally configure your system before turning it over to you.

• 1-Gb (RJ-45 cable) — direct connect for clients and the System Directors.

• High speed engine interconnect (CX-4 cable) — proprietary Avid bus that connects switch blades between engines allowing subnets to connect between the engines.

• 10-Gb XFP or SFP+ MSA form factor transceiver (for Optical cable) — used for a 10-Gb connection to a switch or 10-Gb Ethernet clients.

Engine

Only an Avid recommended SFP+ transceiver should be used in the 10-Gb XFP connection, and only Avid trained representatives should remove and replace the XFP transceiver. Currently supported XFP are the Picolight XFP and Foundry

XFP.

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1 2 3 4 5 6

7 8 9

IXS Module

The IXS is needed only if you are connecting three or more engines. When connecting three or more engines, two IXS modules are installed in one engine. The IXS offers the following connections:

• Management connection — used to configure the switch during installation and monitor switch functions.

• High speed engine interconnect (Hi-Gig) — proprietary Avid interconnection that stacks the switches to create one large virtual switch.

Activity

Link

Management connection

In a basic configuration containing one or two engines, each of the engines contains two ISS

modules. The IXS module is used with an ISS module in an engine only when the

Engine interconnections

configuration goes beyond two engines.

Storage Configurations

A maximum of twelve Avid ISIS Engines can be stacked and populated with either 250 GB, 500 GB, or 1 terabytes (TB) SATA drives. A fully populated Avid ISIS system with 1 TB drives provides up to 384 terabytes (TB) of storage, or 192 TB of mirrored storage.

You can have mixed ISB drive sizes in an engine (250 GB, 500 GB, and 1 TB drives). You can even mix the different size ISBs in a Storage Group. Although, the larger ISBs in the mixed Storage Group only use the amount of storage that is available in the smaller ISBs.

Storage Group Size

Storage elements are combined to create Storage Groups in the ISIS file system. These Storage Groups can be configured to either operate using 512 KB (default) or 256 KB chunk sizes. Earlier Avid ISIS releases used 256 KB chunk sizes. For more information about

setting the chunk size, see the Avid ISIS 7000 Administration Guide.

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Pinnacle Systems ISIS 7000 - 2.4 Setup Guide

Contents

Using This Guide

Symbols and Conventions

If You Need Help

Accessing the Online Documentation

Avid Training Services

Software Upgrade

Hardware Upgrade

New System Director and Engine Installation

Switch and ISB Upgrade Utility

Recreating a File Systems

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Hardware Overview and Naming Convention

System Director

System Director Front Panel

System Director Rear Panel

Second System Director

Engine

Engine Front View

Power supplies

Engine Rear View

Integrated Ethernet Switches

Storage Configurations

Storage Group Size