Pinnacle Systems Unity ISIS - 1.4 User Manual

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Avid Unity ISIS

Site Preparation Guide

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Avid Unity ISIS Site Preparation Guide• 0130-07552-01 • Rev A • May 2006

Chapter 1 Site Planning Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

The Naming Convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Standard Avid Unity ISIS Hardware Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Supported Cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Optional and Customer-Supplied Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Rackmounting the Equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Installing Rack-Mount Rails and Brackets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Installing System Director and Avid ISIS Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Other Avid Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Choosing the System Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Customer Responsibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Chapter 2 System Layout Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Hardware Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Clearance and Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Airflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Dimensions and Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Chapter 3 Environmental Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Physical Site Characteristics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Chapter 4 Electrical Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Connecting Power to Equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Three 20-Amp AC Circuits for Three Engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Three 20-Amp AC Circuits for Two Engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Two 20-Amp AC Circuits for Two Engines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Power Cords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Tables

Product Nomenclature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Supported Cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Component Dimensions and Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Environmental Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Electrical Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Power Cord Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Chapter 1

Site Planning Overview

You need to carefully plan for space, environmental, and power requirements for your Avid ISIS hardware so the installation proceeds smoothly. During your planning you need to consider:

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• Which Avid Unity ISIS affect your installation date if you need to obtain some optional components from sources other than Avid.

• The environment into which you are installing the Avid Unity ISIS hardware. You might need to make adjustments to keep the components within their normal operating limits.

• The electrical capacity of the area where you are installing the Avid Unity ISIS. You might need to upgrade the power and electrical outlets due to the power requirements of Avid Unity ISIS.

You should refer to this guide anytime you plan to move the hardware, or when you install additional components to expand the capacity of your Avid Unity ISIS workgroup.

components are standard and which are optional. This can

The Naming Convention

While you are reading this document it is important to understand the terms used while explaining the use of the system. The following table, used in conjunction with the remaining document, provides the actual nomenclature and the terms used in this manual to describe that nomenclature:

Chapter 1 Site Planning Overview

Product Nomenclature

Product name Term used

Avid Unity ISIS media network

Avid Unity ISIS architecture

Avid Unity ISIS file system

Avid ISIS storage blade (Labeled i500 at this time to denote size of SATA drives)

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

Avid Unity ISIS Expansion Integrated Ethernet switch blade

Integrated Power supply and Cooling fans Power supplies

Avid Unity ISIS engine Contains the ISBs, ISSs, IXSs, power

Avid Unity ISIS System Director (Active and standby)

a. The Avid hardware shown in the “Hardware Overview” on page 15 Some hardware is supplied by the

customer, such as external Ethernet switches.

System or shared network storage environment

Architecture, including software

Group of bound storage elements

ISIS Storage Blade (ISB)

ISIS Expansion Switch (IXS)

supplies, and an internal midplane (engine)

System Director, a CPU connected to the ISS to manage the data and portions of the metadata to the System Director

Standard Avid Unity ISIS Hardware Components

The following hardware components are supplied with Avid Unity ISIS workgroups:

• One System Director (2U rack-mount)

• Avid Unity ISIS engine (4U rack-mount)

• Cables for connecting the System Director and Avid ISIS engine.

Avid engine Interconnect CX-4 cables used with the Avid ISIS hardware are designed and provided by Avid due to the specific needs and speeds in the distribution of data.

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Pinnacle Systems Unity ISIS - 1.4 User Manual

Contents

Site Planning Overview

The Naming Convention

Standard Avid Unity ISIS Hardware Components