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    IBM System Storage™ Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide Selling and Deploying DS3000/DS4000/DS5000 in Mac, Linux, Windows Client, and StorNext Environments Con Rice Modular Storage Product Specialist LSI Corporation 12007 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 325 Reston, VA20191 Cell: 703-867-0012 Tel: 703-262-5418 e-mail: con.rice@lsi.com Di[...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 2 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Contents  INTRODUC TION .................................................................................................................. ..... 4  Mac, Windows and Linux Client Connectivity ...........................................[...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 3 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. StorNext Controlled SA N File Sy stem .............................................................................. 20  Cooperation Effort Betw een Apple and Q uantum ............................................................. 20  [...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 4 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. INTRODUCTION This paper outlines support of Windows Client (XP, Vista, and Windows 7), Linux (RHEL and SUSE) and Mac (OS X 10.5 – 10.6.x) with IBM DS3000, DS4000, and DS5000 Storage Servers. It also discusses support in StorNe xt environm[...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 5 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Mac, Windows and Linux Client Connectivity In recent years, the workflow requirements of the video professional is driving the need for more sophisticated, high-end configurations, whic h require multiple user s to share access to large amo[...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 6 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. There are three components to the basic StorNext solution: Clients, Meta Data Controllers (MDCs), and the storage. There are also anci llary components such as the SAN, the TCP/IP network, and optional archive storage such as tape libraries[...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 7 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. • FC-81EN, Single Port Windows Servers ATTO (future support), see current compatibility matrix for alternative solutions Linux Servers In mixed MacOS and/or Windows Client (XP, Vista, Windows 7) environments: ATTO Celerity • FC-84EN, Qu[...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 8 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Note: A customer seeking connection that has already deployed Apple Xsan MDC will need to transition to a Quantum StorNext MDC running either on Linux or Windows Server. However the Apple Xsan clients can remain. SOLUTION COMPONENT DESCRIPT[...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 9 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. • Must use supported ATTO HBA and MultiPath Director driver purchased from ATTO or ATTO Resellers Linux StorNext Clients and MDCs • Must buy Quantum StorNext software • Must buy StorNext Installa tion services from Quantum • Must bu[...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 10 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. DS3400 DS3500 DS3500 Turbo DS5020 DS5100 base performance DS5300 Burst I/O rate cache reads (IOPS) 110,000 140,000 174,000 200,000 650,000 700,000 Sustained I/O rate disk reads 21,000 30,000 35,000 50,000 76,000 170,000 Sustained I/O rate [...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 11 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Sustained throughput disk read (MB/s) 925 2,000 4,000 1,600 1,600 6,400 Sustained throughput disk write (MB/s) 720 1,100 2,400 1,400 1,300 5,300 Host ports 4 8 8 4 8 16[...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 12 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Solutions Apple Hardware Connect Only Apple Servers and/or clients with no shared filed access Multiple Apple Host Server or Client connected to DS3000/DS4000/DS5000 Storage • Apple Leopard and Snow Leopard • Using ATTO HBAs and ATTO M[...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 13 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Hardware Connect Only Windows clients with no shared filed access • Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 • Using ATTO HBAs and ATTO MP Director • Without StorNext or Xsan support • This is basic host connectivity support. Linux Homogenous [...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 14 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Client, or mixed: Supported ATTO HBAs Linux SLES 10.2 x64 If clients are also Linux: supported HBA: QLogics, Emulex, If clients are MacOS, Windows Client, or mixed: Supported ATTO HBAs RDAC, MPP, or ATTO as appropriate Yes Linux RHEL 5.3 x[...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 15 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Windows 2008 R2 x86, x64 Supported ATTO HBAs(future) MPIO/DSM, ATTO) Windows Windows 7 x86 Supported ATTO HBAs ATTO Windows Vista x86 Supported ATTO HBAs ATTO Windows XP x86 Supported ATTO HBAs ATTO Mixed As appropriate above As appropriat[...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 16 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Storage Controller A Up to 8 All ports see all MDC and client ports Controller B Up to 8 All ports see all MDC and client ports RECOMMENDED RAID CONFIGURATIONS RAID level RAID Arra y size Segment size Disk type Journal 1 or 10 As required [...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 17 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. SOLUTION INSTALLATION 1. Use a meshed fabric with each HBA zoned to see bo th controllers but controllers una ble to see each other. 2. Use RDAC or MPIO failover drivers as appropriat e for your operating system s (A TTO for Apple and/or W[...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 18 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. 9. For clients, limit the number of defined paths to four. This gives you the redundancy you nee d while minimizing boot time. During boot, StorNext tries EVERY defined path.[...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 19 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. 10. RAID 1 or 10 for Journal and Meta Data a. Multiple RAID 1 Groups would be pr eferable to a similarly size RAID 10 b. Placing Meta Data and Journal on a storage system separate from t he data is preferable. 11. It is desirable to separa[...]

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    Digital Media Storage So luti on Installation Guide 20 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. QUANTUM / APPLE JOINT PR ODUCT SUPPORT PROGRAM Quantum / Apple Joint Product Support Program Overview Quantum and Apple have agreed to a cooperative support relationship for Quantum’s StorNext and Apple’s Xsan products. This means joi[...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 21 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. MIGRATING FROM XSAN M DC TO STORNEXT MDC Q. Are there new features in Xsan 2.2 that make it harder to swap out XServe MDCs and replace them with StorNext Linux MDCs? A: “NamedStreams” is the Apple Xsan f eature that ca use s some probl[...]

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    Digital Media Storage So luti on Installation Guide 22 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. ATTO Technology Inc. ATTO Technology, Inc. Value Proposition ATTO Technology is a leader in storage and co nnect ivity solutions. In business sin ce 1988, ATTO has maintained a consistent strategy of technical innovation by continually cr[...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 23 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. ATTO Celerity 8Gb Fibre Channel HBAs Product Features Celerity HBAs FC84EN FC82EN FC81EN Fibre Channel Ports 4 2 1 Maximum Data Rate 8Gb 8Gb 8Gb Maximum Transfer Rate (Full Duplex ) 6.4 GB/s 3.2 GB/s 1.6 GB/s Maximum Transfer Rate (Half Du[...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 24 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. APPENDIX A: EXAMPLE CONFIGURATIONS Large Heterogeneous St orNext configuration Example 1.Drawing dep icts large and expandab le SAN with heter ogeneous client conn ectivity. Multiple DS5300 conne cted to meshed SAN fabric with a minimum of[...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 25 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Detailed explanation of example 1. Example Large StorNext configuration showing DS5300’s with Fibre Channel and/or SAT A disk for Data and a separate DS5020 for Meta Data and Journal. T hese examples are represe ntative onl y and should [...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 26 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Mid to large -sized “MAC Homo genous”StorN ext configuration Example 2. In this example d iagram Linux MDC Servers ar e shown, but only MAC Xsan Clients are sho wn. DS5300 connected to meshed SAN fabric with a minimum of t wo Fibre Cha[...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 27 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Mid-sized “MAC Homoge nous”StorN ext configuration Example 4. In this example d iagram Linux MDC Servers ar e shown, but only MAC Xsan Clients are sho wn. DS5020 connected to meshed SAN fabric with a single F ibr e Channel switch. For [...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 28 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Small “MAC Homogenous”StorNe xt c onfi guration Example 5. In this example d iagram Linux MDC Servers ar e shown, but only MAC Xsan Clients are sho wn. DS3400 connected to meshed SAN fabric with a single F ibr e Channel switch. For DS3[...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 29 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Mid to large -sized Heteroge neous StorNe xt configuration Example 6. Drawing depicts mid to larg e siz e and expandab le SAN with heterogeneous client connectivit y. DS5300 connected to meshed SAN fabric with a minimum of t wo Fibre Chann[...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 30 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. APPENDIX B: ATTO H BA AND MULTIPATH DIRECTOR INSTALLATION AND TROUBLESHOOTING MANUAL • Please refer to ATTO Celerity MultiPath Director Manual for installation and troubleshooting. o http://www.attotech.com/software/f iles/manuals/Manual[...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 31 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Additional Reference Links • IBM DS Series Portal: www.ibmdsseries.com • ATTO Technology, Inc: www.attotech.com/solutions/ibm • Quantum StorNext: www.stornext.com • Apple Xsan: http://www.apple.com/Xsan/ Notices This information wa[...]

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    Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 32 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Trademarks IBM, the IBM logo, and ibm.com are tradem arks or registered trademarks of Internatio nal Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries, or bot h. These and other IBM trademarked terms arem arked on thei r [...]