Apple Xsan 1.x User Manual

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Chapter 3

Deployment Examples

Example 3: Storage for Video or Film Production Group

This example shows how to use Xsan to set up a storage area network to support a
group of video editors.

Xserve RAID

storage

Standby

controller

Metadata

controller

Fibre
Channel switch

Ingest

station

Audio

station

Intranet/
Internet

Editing

station

Directory
servers

Ethernet - TCP/IP

(Public)

Ethernet - TCP/IP

(Private)