IBM DS5000 User Manual

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Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide

Contents

INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................... 4

Mac, Windows and Linux Client Connectivity ......................................................................... 5

StorNext File Sharing Environments ...................................................................................... 5

CURRENT SOLUTIONS ........................................................................................................... 6

Supported Hardware Environments ....................................................................................... 6

Supported File Sharing Environments .................................................................................... 7

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. ........................................................................................... 8

SOLUTION COMPONENT DESCRIPTIONS ........................................................................... 8

SAN Architecture criteria ........................................................................................................ 8

Apple Clients .......................................................................................................................... 8

Windows Clients .................................................................................................................... 8

Windows Server MDCs (Future Support) ............................................................................... 8

Linux StorNext Clients and MDCs .......................................................................................... 9

IBM DS Storage ..................................................................................................................... 9

Solutions .................................................................................................................................. 12

Apple Hardware Connect Only ............................................................................................. 12

Apple Servers and/or clients with no shared filed access ................................................. 12

Apple Homogenous Shared File .......................................................................................... 12

Apple Xsan Clients with Linux MDC (Meta Data Controller) ............................................. 12

Windows Client Hardware Connect Only ............................................................................. 12

Windows clients with no shared filed access .................................................................... 13

Linux Homogenous .............................................................................................................. 13

Linux StorNext Clients with Linux MDC ............................................................................ 13

Heterogeneous .................................................................................................................... 13

Apple Xsan Clients, Linux StorNext Clients, Windows Clients and Linux MDC ................ 13

APPLE, WINDOWS, and STORNEXT SUPPORT MATRIX .................................................... 13

SOLUTION RESTRICTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS .................................................... 15

RECOMMENDED RAID CONFIGURATIONS ......................................................................... 16

SOLUTION INSTALLATION .................................................................................................... 17

QUANTUM / APPLE JOINT PRODUCT SUPPORT PROGRAM ............................................ 20

Overview .......................................................................................................................... 20

Xsan Controlled SAN File System .................................................................................... 20

This manual is related to the following products:

DS3000 DS4000