Thursday 4 August 2011

FXT avere NAS devices for the visual effects company, support grouped

Xsan storage system from Apple on its own on-the provider of visual effects Whiskytree Inc. again to increase the scalability and efficiency of PROVES FXT 2300 Network Storage (NAS) devices are grouped Systems Inc. show -proven benefits of hungry farm.

San Rafael, Calif., and Thor Whiskytree visual effects and feature films, including Terminator Salvation Post-Production. Both visual effects and rendering, use a network, but Whiskytree Jonathan Harb, CEO and creative director to manage up to 100 knots, the first time attempted to log on the performance of Xsan, as well as Fibre Channel, said the company began to decline (CF) workstations.

"We create the nodes of at least 100 to use at any time," said Harb. "Hundreds of megabytes of data a couple gigabytes bandwidth required changes. You can send the same data at the same time, we ask if we are hunted, and 100 nodes [file server and Xsan] will. Xsan hit high IOPS. File server started going crazy. In fact, they stopped working. "

Latest photos of artists, who work in jobs of the company to create, create, and FC becomes dependent on the farm. Ethernet switches connected to two six-core processors and 24 GB of RAM-intensive activities become Whiskytree farm of servers. NAS file server, which is based on a farm, in turn, connected to an Xsan based CF. A gateway NAS, storage area networks (SAN) and NAS provides the translation between the protocols.

"Fibre Channel SAN file server is a client," said Harb. "We as a unit map X Windows, SAN, and emerge as a unit. CIFS file server, with the volume and access the shares. Let us provide all Ethernet nodes connected to access the file server on the SAN. "

Whiskytree between the file server cluster and render farm of some 2300 FXT devices avere installed. Avere devices M / S hit the workload of the file server by reducing manual data requests renderfarm. A 10 Gigabit Ethernet Edge Switch 7124SX SAN to create a premise that is not blocked. The process of special effects to make the new configuration in a short time of war, the number of nodes is more than four times the performance and scale, he said.

Rebecca Thompson, vice president of marketing systems avere two Whiskytree business process architecture, special effects and processing an application for the design of others have had to develop raised, he said . "A lot of production houses, separated by architecture, but cheaper and easier to handle because he wanted to keep Whiskytree unified architecture," he said.

"We need to access the data too much and too quickly in this organization," Harb Whiskytree "and the system should be rock solid. Now, reliable performance and unique [and] so little IOPS At one point, more avere. This function approach wise way. now at the file server, but we have not reached that point. "

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