FCserver .... the story so far in the Profession arena

well thought I would spread the love and tell you my story so far...
The Kit
10 x 8 core MacPros - 8 Gig Ram - 4 GB Fibre network - 40TB storage.
The Brief
We have a collective library of "mood elements" kind of like Getty (by the way are the best footage library we have used)
We also have over 6TB of indexed HDV files for a major travel company.
With over 25,000 Mood tapes and over 10,000 HDV files I decided that we were ready for the onslaught of FCserver, I set up all the macpros and decommissioned a Dual 2 - 4GB ram PPC, installed 105 server on this old dear (this also has fibre but only 2GB/s card and spf)
Before completely blowing my head off I decided to 'slightly wound myself' by installing it on a MacBook Pro to navigate around the Lookup menus, metadata fields etc - by the way this was the best thing to do, as I would travel back on the train at night it would allow me to log on (yes you need a IP address and internet for it to work)
Helpful hint 1 - get a sharpened HB pencil and writing pad - write down in columns, Look Ups and their metadata ie "My Edit Suites" then Edit 1, Edit 2 etc - write as much information as you can
The create a new field called My Edit Suites, this field will allow you to allocate the correct look up.
Helpful Hint 2 - DECIDE YOUR WORKFLOW !!!!! Man alive this is the so important, if you have a SAN (like us) I created a Folder called FinalCutServer, in there is where everything will go, in here create "watch folders" these can be anything ----- we have about 10 folders each to a part of our business, ie MoodTapeFootage, XXXXXtravelFootage etc. coinsiding
Install !!! - point your Proxie and media folder set up to the FinalCutServer folder - there it will create Library, Media, Watcher & Bundle plugins ! for the love of god don't mess with these bad boys
So off I went installed, set up metadata info Created new sub folders in the library folders that matched the watch folders, this will make it easier to media manage later, I created watch folder alerts that would transcode the files then move them to the subfolder - happy days.
Opened the java app and in admin settings set the compressor cluster to the FinalCutServer Cluster Pig ( this is the cluster I set up by starting ll the edit machines and allocating 2 services per machine, in theory I should have 20 processors available to me.
Set off with just a few jobs - WOWZER - super quick and done, buy the way the Jobs window takes me back to Telestream FlipFactory - so I am excitied all proxies are working and away we go ....... Do I drag the 24,995 over ! **** no
When I drag 100 jobs over it pumps away - at this stage I am relising a Dual 2 PPC is just not cutting the mustard, in activity window everything is pushed to the roof,
I am constantly force quitting the Compressor service via activity window and popping back over to the jobs window to see the jobs start again, I also need to go into System Prefs, FCserver and stop the service and start again.
So my research shows if your going to back catalogue stuff - all our files are correct media formats ie AT, WMV, GET A BIG BOX a 8 core xserve with ram will be your friend, PLAN PLAN PLAN - TEST TEST TEST and just when you are ready load the IT Gun, clock the lever and then tell your staff - "you all good to use that funny icon on your desktop" turn around and walk back to your desk, and wait for the phone calls !
Signing off - Broadcast IT Guru.

Hi,
Today I gave up. The wireless side of the router goes off after 10 minutes or so. A reboot brings it on again and it then works okay for the rest of the time (can be on for hours) However, I do not want to leave it perminantly on so I have returned it to the shop where I bought it and changed it for a different make.
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