Xsan Tuner

Is Xsan Tuner still available? I can't seem to find anywhere on Apple's site.

That download is no longer available from Apple.
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  • Xsan Performance Unstable

    I'm having aproblem with Xsan performance, for exemple when I use uncompress 8 bit and try to capture some files couldn't get the right date rate 20 MB/s some files come damaged with less data rate like 17 MB/s
    I'm using xsan tuner to test my system performace.
    Tuning Values are Uncompress 8 bit Final Cut write,When push start test once it works great, starts higher than target like 22 MB/s and slow down smoothly to 20,02 MB/s and stay in target forever, but if I stop and start the test again, it starts lower than target 19.8 MB/s, goes higher than target and stay unstable all the time never get the right target. If I stop and start again come back to normal behavior, once stable once unstable.
    Any suggestion?
    Thanks

    Your performance sounds rather low... what's your xsan volume config, and are you having multiple machines access it simultaneously?

  • Unsync issues during ingest (anyone seen this problem before ?)

    Sometimes I can get sync issues when ingesting straight to my raid. Randomly I will get qtmovies where the picture freezes, but the sound continues, so I have to redigitize the material. It looks a bit like this very short example
    http://www.haavie.no/freeze.mov
    I don't see anything special in my systemlogs (xsan), and everything else works ok with my raid. This error is happening on any of our 12 clients..
    Any suggestions ? (My raid settings are all correct)
    (xsan 1.4.1. OS 10.4.9, Fcp 5.04)

    You may want to explain a bit further on your environment:
    Assuming you are using xsan (since you mentioned xsan software but this is Xserve RAID forum):
    - check event logs on Xserve RAID to see if there are any errors events. Any bad disks. any degraded disks, rebuild going on.
    - do you have dedicated meta data controllers.
    - do you have metadata stored within their own LUN.
    - do you have metadata stored managed by their own controller and not shared with data LUN.
    (ok sounds a bit hardware intensive)
    - were u doing play back while doing in gest from any of the workstations.
    - Were you using DNS for your name services, both forward and reverse records exists.
    Use xsan tuner (available on support website) to test your xsan performance.
    www.apple.com/support/downloads/xsantuner.html

  • Don't put any Storage Pools on your Metadata & Journaling controller!

    I found out the hard way - many wasted hours of trying to figure out our performance problems - that putting any Storage Pools on the controller in an Xserve RAID that also houses the Metadata & Journal pool is a Big Mistake.
    We do full-blown 10-bit HD work here, and while capturing/writing wasn't a problem, playback was - in either Final Cut Pro or creating self-contained QuickTime movies and playing them back in QuickTime Player.
    Playing them back would result in missed frames, or even downright stop/start stuttering - completely unacceptable. Xsan Tuner was no help - it kept claiming I was getting 150-155 MB/sec, which I clearly wasn't.
    My co-workers were getting mad at me that I couldn't get it to work - every tuning thing I tried failed. (I'd originally set it up under Xsan 1.1, and had split the LUNs due to them being over 2 TB, so I had to completely rip it apart and do it all over from scratch under Xsan 1.3 to un-do the LUN slicing.)
    I finally stumbled upon the answer while trying lots of different tests - permutations/combinations, changing block size/stripe breadth, you name it. Nothing worked. Finally I tried building a simple Volume without the Storage Pool I'd created with the remaining 4+1 disks on the Metadata & Journaling controller ...
    Voila! All the performance problems went away magically, and now the videos play properly. Ever since then, with further testing, the only way I can "break" it again is to create a Volume with a 512 K (max) block size and stripe breadth of 2 - then it siezes up. (Which makes sense, if you think hard enough about it.) With block sizes between 16 to 64, no problems. (I eventually found out that 16 was the best size, according to my Bonnie benchmarking tests.)
    Anyway - maybe this is common knowledge, but here's some real-world data to back it up. Hopefully this posting will save someone in the future from making the same mistakes I did along the way ...

    In my discussions with Apple's consulting group, they always recommend this. Sorry you had to find it out the hard way :-/
    Xsan is easy "for a SAN," but it's a complicated product area, and if you want it to perform at its best, it's good to take training which gives an overview of what to do and more importantly what not to do. Also, the investment in consulting from people with experience is worth its weight in gold.

  • Slow FCP Writes

    I'm trying to optimize my xsan for FinalCut HD. I've got a storage pool made up of 6 Raid5 luns from 3 XServe RAIDS. (1 7 drive lun per controller) Metadata is on an additional RAID box.
    Block size is 128 and breadth is 8 for a total of 1MB
    Using xsan tuner on a client, I can read 1080i 10 bit FCP files at ~360MBs but i can write at no more than 146MBs. (If I test UNIX file writes, I get about 350MBs)
    What have I missed?
    What are the optimal settings for writing Uncompressed 1080i 10 bit to an xsan volume?
    xsan 1.3
    Prefetch 8
    Block size 128
    Breadth 8
    Write caches are enabled
    Host flush is disabled
    No affinities are used (these seem to have a big performance hit)
    Any Ideas?
    A
    G5 2.5 quad   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   qlogic switch

    Try turning off the Xserve RAID controller write caches except for the one hosting the metadata, but leave the drives' caches turned on (I think).
    http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/Xsan1.1TuningGuide.pdf
    Page 12
    "Although some large write requests might benefit from caching, often they do not. By placing a volume’s metadata storage pool on a controller separate from the data storage pools, you can configure the metadata controller to use caching and the data controller to run without caching. "

  • How can you get your data back on i tunes

    Hi i am Justin,
    I have i phone and i have i tunes here is my problom. last night i formatted my HP windows 7 computer and i backed up my pictures and backed up i tunes witch i thoght i did becasue i backed it up on my external 500 MB hard drive and with out making a folder and c oping i tunes i only backed up library and before the format i went to edit, preferences and adavaned in i tunes (sorry about the bad spelling) becasue apples's step by step i read and saw the pictures were to go and i thought i can back up i tunes that way. My phone has 333 songs all my pictures apps and contacts and there is no way to re copy from the phone back in to i tunes i do not use i cloud becasue (one i do not want to pay for more space) and 2 the free version tells me i do not have enough space to back it up so i am worried one sync i will lose all my info. these songs are from cd's i have and off the Internet before the courts stopped Napster and Lime Wire. Sos what should i do just unstalli tunes and leave my computer as a re charging stastion? or is there any secret way to get all my things back then this time i can make a folder and do it right in case the next time i have to re format my drive from a problems or need to what is the best case here?
    Justin

    Sync is only oneway, from PC to your device. Unless you have the music on your PC, iTunes is going to wipe out what you have on your device if you are syncing to a new library.
    You can only transfer Purchased music over to Itunes on your PC.
    iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848
    As for you own music, you may have to use a third party software. A good Free one is called Sharepod which you can download from Download.com here:
    http://download.cnet.com/SharePod/3000-2141_4-10794489.html?tag=mncol;2

  • I tunes downloads to wrong drive

    Hi guys some help please. When I download the latest I tunes 9.1.1 is wants to install to drice "G" which I don't have I want it to download on "C". Any ideas?

    Hey there,
    One thing you should check is where your iTunes searches for your iTunes folder. Head to iTunes and then Preferences. When the window pops up, head over to the Advanced tab. Near the top of the tab, you will see where iTunes currently locates your Music folder. Click the Change button and then direct it to where the folder is located on your External drive. See if that helps.
    B-rock

  • My i tunes account for my pc and i phone wont let me update my apps or download any new ones can some one tell me why?

    my i tunes account for both my pc and i phone wont let me update or download any apps.

    no none errors it started after i installed the new ios 5.1 on my i phone i wait ages ans it says cannot conect to the i tunes store. and on the pc when i go to update them it says service timed out after about ten mins of waiting

  • Secure link to I tunes is not working please help

    I have been gaining access to I Tunes fine up to last Wednesday. I now cannot access my account on I tunes, I can surf the shop fine and look at it contents fine but as soon as I try to buy anything I can't log in to my account. I cannot even create a new account.
    I'm in contact with apple via e mail but everything they suggest just isn't working. Does any one have any ideas of what I can try as I'm at a dead end now and I have credit on my account.
    Many Thanks

    I found the solution! My WAN setting on my router was set at 1458 and should have been 1400.

  • I tunes will not open - have read ALOT but still can't get it going

    How much is Apple losong out to what appears to be a fairly common but complicated problem. Not sure if it all started the day I upgraded to i-tunes 9 or when I renewed my Norton Anti Virus. It was working for months even when I had Norton which i have since removed using the Norton Removal Tool. When I first click on it it tries to open and I get a message saying that my Quick Time software is outdated but BEFORE I can click on that another box opens over top that says "i-tunes has stopped working" "a problem has caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close he problem and notify you if a solution is found"
    If i try again , nothing happens at all. When I go to processes I can see where it appears briefly maybe 2-3 seconds then disappears.
    I have tried:
    Making another user account and opening I-tunes
    Removing my Norton anti virus
    Uninstalling and re-installing i-tunes and quick time both together and separately....many many times
    restoring previous version of i-tunes
    I get the same message if i try to open just quicktime.
    My i -tunes library itself will also not open.
    Please tell me where to go from here
    I am running a newer (3 months old) HP with Windows 7 64 bit
    IDEAS???
    Rob.

    Excellent news, Rob! Glad you're up and running again.
    Any idea as to how it got this way? I am thinking of re-installing my Norton since it has worked well for me for the last few years and I an not exactly sure if that was the problem or if was a Windows 7 thing?
    I reckon Norton and Windows 7 were innocent parties here. Some other application dumped a couple of boatloads of QuickTime componentry in your sysWOW64. (Older versions of codec packs, video converter software, other file converter software, and media players that offer the opportunity to use quicktime files "without installing QuickTime" are the usual culprits here, but some games might do this too.) That might go unnoticed so long as that componentry matches the existing version of QuickTime software that you have installed on the PC ... but things turn to custard when you have to update your QuickTime version, and the versions of the componentry in /sysWOW64/ no longer match your "QuickTime proper". (On 32-bit systems, the same sort of thing happens, with the difference being that the "foreign" QuickTime componentry would typically be lurking down in the system32 folder.)
    So, we pretty much get cases of this sort of thing showing up constantly at the forums, with a big pulse in reports happening after any QuickTime version update. (It produces a significant proportion of the "iTunes has encountered a problem" and "iTunes has stopped working" messages that we get reported here.) You were really unlucky in that you got a rarer version of the possible error messages ... so there's not as much relevant troubleshooting advice available on the web, which makes researching what could possibly be going wrong for you considerably harder than it is for folk with the more common versions of the error messages.

  • I have 3 iTunes accounts which I had set up each time I bought a device not realising they all linked up (blonde!!). Can I consolidate them into one account without losing tunes,pics etc??

    I have 3 iTunes accounts which I had set up each time I got a new device not realising I should use the same one. Is there a way to consolidate the accounts without losing tunes etc as at the moment my iPad, new iPhone and iPod are all getting different downloads : (

    It's impossible to merge two iTunes accounts

  • How to use one I-tunes library with multiple windows users (family) on 1 pc

    On our family pc we log in with different accounts. We want to use I-Tunes but all have the same library. I tried to create a library not in the users directory, but in the All Users folder that is accessible for everyone. However, when I import the music in the library for one user and set the same location for another user, I-tunes does not recognize the library. So everyone has to create it's own library.
    What are the best practices to overcome this?

    Keep in mind that what you have done now is you have multiple iTunes libraries accessing the same media folder. Meaning, that each account can have their own ratings, playlists, etc. but more importantly, each account does NOT know what the other account does, so if your daughter adds a CD to her account, it will go into the shared folder, but it will NOT automatically go into your wife's iTunes library. She would have to add it manually. Likewise, if one account deletes music from their library and tells iTunes to remove it to the trash, the other accounts will not know and iTunes will still try to access the file from the shared location even though the file is now trashed.
    Each account has their own database files (.itl files in the iTunes folder) which stores this stuff.
    If you want to have everyone use the exact same library which means the same ratings, playlists, etc. then you need to move the database files into that same location and set each iTunes account to read the same data.
    How to open an alternate iTunes Library file or create a new one
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304447
    Patrick

  • How to delete the loadings list in the itunes store (1000 tunes are downloading with no reason)

    Hi
    I switched from an iPhone 4 to an iPhone 5c and now the itunes store app wants to download 1000 tunes (I guess it cannot try more) and it blocks.
    I don't know how to delete the list (not one by one of course .
    If someone has any clue to help
    Thanks

    Hi Francis,
    Check the BADI "TRIP_WEB_CHECK" method "USER_CHECK_GENERAL_DATA".
    Here based on the schema you can modify the "estimated cost" field.
    Hope it helps.
    Regards,
    Jyothi

  • My family uses a single lap-top as our main internet connection and when we synch our respective I-pods, our I-tunes account seems to wipe-out our playlists, even though we have tried to create separate I-tune accounts.  Help!!

    My family uses a single lap-top as our home computer and several of us have i-pods that we like to synch, using I-tunes.  Although we've tried to create separate I-tune accounts, our i-tunes playlists are getting wiped out when one of us deletes songs on our I-pod and it seems as though I-tunes is not distinguishing our distinct accounts and all i-pods are being synched to reflect the latest i-pod anyone makes on their respective account.  It appears as though our distinct I-tune accounts are not being loaded on our lap-top when we sign in and unfortunately, when we're in I-tunes, there is nothing to indicate what account is on the screen.  For all the glowing appraisals apple-related products usually receive, we are finding i-tunes and its interface with our respective i-pods to be a very, very frustrating experience. 
    Can anyone shed some light on this for a family of non-techies?  Thx 
    Pegger64  

    You need to create separate Windows user accounts if you want to seperate the behaviour of iTunes for each user. That also means separate iTunes libraries for each user.
    Windows is a multi-user operating system but you are not using it properly. iTunes is not a multi-user application. No application is. You can't expect it to treat different users differently when they are all using the same computer user account.
    Do you understand what I mean?

  • In previous versions of i Tunes you could highlight a song in your library and there would be a genious list on the right side of the screen showing songs like the one highlighted in the library. Now I do not get that list. Is there a way to get this back

    In previous versions of i Tunes I could highlight a song in my library and a genious list would show on the right side of the screen listing songs that were like the one highlighted. Now I do not get that list. Is there a way to get that back?

    Hi again Bob,
    I believe I've found the feature you were speaking about now. Information on the "In the Store" feature of iTunes can be found here:
    Apple - iTunes - Inside iTunes - Using In the Store from within your iTunes Library.
    http://www.apple.com/itunes/inside-itunes/2013/01/using-in-the-store-from-within -your-itunes-library.html
    Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities. Have a good one!
    -Braden

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