IBM DS5000 - Manual (Page 2)

Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 2
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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