Xserve storage

Hi and thanks for reading.
Can somebody please point me in the direction of a list of 'Xserve compatible storage'. I don't mean storage to fill the bays on board, I mean storage like the discontinued 'Xserve Raid' or the new Promise Raid.
I have searched to try and find this information for myself but every search just returns details of the Xserve Raid instead of alternative Rack mounted raid storage that is (intel) Xserve compatible. If there is a spec sheet somewhere that simply lists the compatibility requirements for a potential Raid device that would be ideal, failing that a list of compatible models would also be helpful.
Thanks!

Hi
http://www.united-digital.co.uk/products/hyperstar-lite-range.html
http://www.united-digital.co.uk/products/superstar-range.html
http://www.united-digital.co.uk/products/firestar-range.html
In fact pretty much anything from: http://www.united-digital.co.uk/index.php works with the mac platform. Good technical support as well.
May not be too far from you? Leamington/Warwick area. They have their own showrooms where you can see the products close up. You may also find more information regarding other products over on the XSan Forum?
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=810
Tony

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Xserve storage - replace Mac with X-serve?

Currently using a G3 (I know! Iknow!) as a fileserver. This had an external Firewire 120gig Drive attached for graphics dept and La Cie tape drive for backup. Digital photography has meant increasing storage - currently at 750 gig and rising.
Tape drive has just failed - need to consider my options and priotities - your thoughts, please.
Mine are - replace tape drive first?
Replace G3 - we are about to free a G4, and this could be used as replacement fileserver- would end users note any improvement in service? marginal?
Or bite the bullet for an X-serve?
could we still hang our Harddrives off this in a firewire chain or if you go down X-serve route is that a bit short sighted - should you be looking at Apple drive modules instead of external storage?
Any other issues I should consider - price is a consideration so if there is a 'Gold Standard' I should be trying to achieve, is there an optimal upgrade path that would allow me to buy kit one stage at a time?
Thanks

Hi BrendanK-
There is nothing wrong with a G3 with drives hanging off as a file server as long as it is doing the job.
Tape can still be a viable backup media. The tapes are small and easy to lock in a safe. The backup process can be slow as you know. I have clients that still rely on tape for "deep storage".
The G4 may show marginal gains processor-wise, but depending on which one you have it may have gig-Ethernet which would speed transfers up significantly.
Even with an XServe the basic I think the basic configuration comes with an 80GB drive with the expectation that data will be stored elsewhere. You can add a couple of drive modules to increase storage but you will have all of your eggs in one basket.
Be aware that you can run the XServer software itself on a variety of platforms. A Mac pro loaded with hard drives may do the trick for you.
Gold Standard to me means a system that meets your needs and 3 backups of data-one locked in a safe at another location, one locked up locally, and one always nearby and ready to go. No matter what you use for a file server, it means nothing if you lose your data.
Hope this helps. You can do this on a tight budget.
Luck-
-DaddyPaycheck

Help on upgrading Xserve storage

Hi, I have an Intel Xserve with the Apple built in RAID card. I currently have 3x750GB hard drives running as a RAID 5 (the most capacity offered at the time...I think 2007..maybe early 08').
I would like to replace the 3 750GB drives with 2 TB drives. I am willing to buy the Apple 2 TB drive modules for $549 each, but it mentions compatibility only with the 09' Xserves. Surely earlier Intel Xserves can use these? It would be monumentally stupid if we were forever stuck with 750GB drives.
Secondly, I would *prefer* to buy WD RE4 Enterprise 2 TB drives with double the cache (64MB) and add them to an Apple Drive Module. Is it possible to buy blank Apple Drive Modules, or do you have to buy the $99 160GB module and manually swap drives. The $99 modules with the superior WD drives would still be less than buying the $549 Apple 2 TB modules.
Lastly, has anybody here upgraded to Snow Leopard Server? This particular Xserve is still running Tiger server and I would like to upgrade everything (OS and Storage) at once. Just curious if Snow Leopard Server runs well with the Apple RAID card.
Sorry for all the questions but Apple has done a shockingly poor job of making information and hardware available to Xserve owners who would like to upgrade their storage after a couple of years (which means approx. every single Xserve owner(!!))
thanks in advance,
Greg
btw - here's the system info on the Xserve and RAID card if it helps.
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: Xserve
Model Identifier: Xserve1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
Boot ROM Version: XS11.0080.B01
SMC Version: 1.11f5
LOM Revision: 1.2.7
Serial Number: G8734358V2Q
Xserve RAID Card:
Hardware Version: 1.00
Firmware Version: M-1.3.0.6
Expansion ROM Version: 0013
Battery Info:
Firmware Revision: 1.0d18
First Installed: 1/11/01 6:59 AM
Last Date Conditioned: 11/13/09 6:37 AM
State: Working battery
Fault: Normal battery operation
Status:
Charging: Yes
Conditioning: No
Connected: Yes
Discharging: No
Sufficient Charge: Yes
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I don't usually bother upgrading the internal stuff; no vendor will tend to make that a particularly easy approach, save for purchasing upgrades from the vendor. (It's usually possible to do the internal disk storage upgrades with some digging and some testing, but that can toss stuff like vendor-supplied SMART out of the equation.)
The testing and the support is the cost here. That's what the vendor-supplied hardware gets you. If you're rolling your own (and I've done that on many occasions), then you own testing and integration and support.
If you have the rack space available and an open bus slot, a PCI-X or PCIe card and an external disk shelf (with or without RAID) can be a reasonable investment. This can be via SAS/SATA controller and a shelf, or FC SAN connection with an external storage controller and a shelf. With an external shelf, you get large(r) external storage, and you can purchase an integrated package providing host support and hardware and (if needed) host software.

Vexing 10.5.6 file system bugs causing crashes; wose with Server OS 10.5.x

We continue to experience occasional MacOS 10.5.6 data volume instabilities. Just today, the system reported that it could not repair a purely archival data volume at a time when I was not accessing the volume and had not asked the OS to 'repair' it.
Then when manually running a repair on that same data volume in Disk Utility, storage services caused a kernel panic crash.
This problem was more prevalent when I tried the server version of Mac OS 10.5.6, where the OS caused disk volume corruption on the dedicated TimeMachine backup drive, and then started to crash frequently in the face of that self-induced corruption.
There was no disk volume corruption and no crashes before 10.5.6.
I would like to know why there should never be a file system condition on data volumes that would induce the entire OS to crash. I would completely understand a forced dismount of the corrupted volumes perhaps, or continuing in a read-only mode until the impacted volume could be repaird, BUT NOT AN OS CRASH. Even attempting to use the repair function on the unmounted volume would cause a crash.
The reason I know this is a file system bug and not the hardware is that the same system can endlessly zero out the data on the same drives, copy large test files to & from the drives, etc. The only situation where these file system crashes happen is with high file counts as one would encounter on a backup drive or on a data archive drive.

This evening OS 10.5.6 reported that Time Machine could not write to its target backup volume on one of the new 1.5TB drives...the nightmare cycle of
1. OS 10.5.6 causes volume corruption
2. OS 10.5.6 unable to repair volume corruption, crashing instead
3. OS 10.5.6 crashes over and over as it tries to auto-mount the volume
4. hard drive has to be physically ejected and wiped using a WINDOWS system so that it can be used again!
This is a sickening tale of disk corruption woe that started with the OS 10.5.6 update.
As fast as I opened an AppleCare support case on this issue, they were closing it behind my back without resolving the issue.
The kernel panics related to the volume mount problem are simply outragrous:
"jnl: mod block start: buffsize 512 not a multiple of block size 4096\n"
KERNEL PANICS SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN DUE TO A VOLUME MOUNT ERROR---EVER.
And yet I see in the support database that this is a recurring theme that has been seen in other OS storage situations, including Xserve storage where the bug would cause much more business damage.
I want this fixed NOW.

Xserve Raid - use it as standalone storage?

hi there!
i have a small network with some pcs (3 running winxp, 1 win2000), 2 os9 macs and 2 g5s. i need big data storage in the size of 7-10TB. can i use the Xserve Raid as standalone storage in the network, or does it need the xserve as server?
do i need soomething else apart from the Xserve Raid to setup the storage bank?
is it a good idea to connect the pcs via ethernet and the g5s via fibrelink? (because our files we are working on are very big and need to have fast access on the storage drives)
thx for ur help
manuel

The XServe RAID needs a host system. That host system doesn't need to be an XServe, or even a Mac - people are using them quite happily on Solaris servers, Linux servers and even Windows servers.
However, it does need a system that had Fiber channel.
ALL disk activity happens over the fiber channel connection. The ethernet ports are not used for file activity, only for administering and monitoring the box.
If you hook the XServe RAID to a single host via fiber channel, that host can share the volume over the network to other clients so they get indirect access. Alternatively you can use a fiber channel switch to connect multiple systems, but care needs to be taken with regards to multiple clients reading/writing the same file at the same time (which is typically why you need SAN software to manage this kind of setup).

Does Xserve with OS 10.6.4 support multipath on non-apple storage now?

Hi,
We are installing 3 Xserves and a non-apple storage (Compellent, dual controller) at customer site, Xserve is running MAC OS 10.6.4 and have installed Xsan. One fibre cable on Xserve is connected to the fibre switch.
During test we found that if LUNs are mapped from multiple WWPNs in one WWNN, The volumes create by Xsan will have link communication and performance issue. We queried Compellent Support and got answered that Apple server doesn't support multipathing on non-apple storage so far, so we have to use only one active link per WWNN.
Is that true and is there any solution for the issue?
Thanks.

Thanks for your reply Colin,
In the Compellent Tech Tip I found following description:
MacOS may incorrectly issue commands to all Storage Center Ports with the same World Wide Node Name (wwnn), even though the volume is only mapped out of a single Storage Center Port. Commands down invalid paths will be rejected by Storage Center. MacOS may not properly acknowledge that the commands were rejected. There will be data integrity issues if the MacOS does not properly acknowledge that commands failed.
All front end primary connections from a controller will have the same wwnn, but unique World Wide Port Names (wwpn or wwn). Each controller in a clustered controller system will have a unique wwnn. Front end reserve ports will have a different wwnn than the primaries.
This behavior has been seen with Storage Center 4.0.2 and 4.1.3 along with MacOS 10.5.3 and 10.5.4. This issue is assumed to exist with all versions of Storage Center and MacOS 1.5.2-1.5.4. It could possibly affect earlier versions of MacOS.
WORKAROUND
The workaround for this issue is to ensure that a Mac Server can only view one front end primary port for each controller. This can be done through zoning. For MacOS, it is recommended that zones are setup so that a Mac Server can only see a single front end primary connection from each controller. Only a single Mac port should be used. At this time, Apple does not support multipathing with non-Apple Storage. A volume should only be mapped out of a single port on Storage Center to a single port on the Mac Server.
What my issue is I connected two active front end ports on each controller to Xserve, that made Xserve "see" two WWPNs in the same WWNN, So regarding the content above, I should connect only one active front end port to the Xserve on each controller. Do you agree?
Thanks!

Need to add additional storage to XServe G5/PowerPC G5 (3.1)

Need additional storage for the Xserve listed below. Any suggestions. Need at least 1TB

Just about any external array should work this this. Heck, if you only need 1TB then any external hard drive should work, too. Look for a FireWire-based drive since that will outperform the USB. Anything more than that will require a PCI card.

Two Xserve hosts connect to an Xserve RAID storage system

Hello everyone
We have 2 Xserver hosts and a RAID storage:
Host A has Dual-port Fibre Channel PCI card
Host B doesn´t have Dual-port Fibre Channel PCI card
Right now I am using

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I put it here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=835809&tstart=0

Looking for additional storage to attach to xserve

I have a client that has filled up the space on their xserve. They would like to add a firewire 800 drive for additional storage. They cannot afford the Promise products. Does anyone have a recomendation? I would prefer if the additional storage was at least Raid 1. We have looked at everything from WD Raid 1 externals to Drobo. Reliablity is more imprtant than performance for now.
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You will not get the performance from the Sonnet cards -especially in a RAID configuration- that you would expect. Those cards employ 'port multipliers' and any RAID configuration will be through software. You would better serve your client with an Areca product such as one of these:
http://www.areca.com.tw/products/externalx.htm
as these employ a dedicated hardware I/O processor and do support EFI booting on Intel XServes. They are not cheap, around $600US from Newegg for the 1120ML, but they are not as expensive as a VTrak, either. Also, when buying disks for the storage array, avoid bulk OEM desktop class drives and invest in server class products such as the Western Digital RE3 or RE4 series drives.

3TB Storage - Alternative to Xserve RAID

Do anybody have any suggestions for alternative storage other than the Xserve RAID?
I'm looking to install an affordable 3TB RAID5 into a clients site, and they don't need a full Xserve RAID as of yet. Pricing and reliability is key also.
Any advice is appreaciated.
Thanks,
David

Hi
United Digital have something which may fit the bill:
http://www.united-digital.co.uk/index.php?pref=73
Hope this helps – Tony

Xserve and IBM DS3400 Storage

Hi,
I try to connect Xserve (OS 10.6.2) to IBM DS3400 storage (FC interface). Once I assigned logical drive to Xserve and restart the server, after logging in, it show error dialog with message "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer." and it cannot be initialize or format. I don't know what to do next and hope some guys in this discussion may help.
Thank you,
Teeravee Sirinapasawasdee

Hi,
Unfortunately the IBM DS3400 does not support Mac OSX. You can check the interoprability matrix here:
IBM System Storage DS3000 series Interoperability Matrix
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/product/interop.html
I have also spent a fair bit of time trying different host types but have found that even when you can mount and write data to the disks, it is very unreliable.
According to the matrices, OSX support starts at the DS6000 level of storage arrays.
HTH.
Dobs.

Spotlight Not Working on Xserve with Large Storage

We're using Xserve (Mac OS X Server 10.6.7) with ~6TB storage as our AFP fileserver. The spotlight searching is not working well, neither at the server console nor client side.
I have tried rebuid the spotlight index with the following commands,
sudo mdutil -i on /
rm -rf /.Spotlight*
sudo mdutil -E /
The spotlight engine seems working. But we can't find things accuractly. It seems that we can find things in the past but not the ones recently added to the server. We have clients from 10.4.11 to 10.6.7, and there is no luck for all.
Does spotlight has storage size limit?
Thank you!

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One 10.4.11 system can execute find successfully, while all 10.5.8 and one 10.4.11 do not. Some days all systems return results successfully.
Weird observation 1: CONSOLE sometimes does not display contents of unsearchable volume even though user (admin) has RWE to that share.
Shell into 10.5.8 toggle mdutil against the problematic mounted volume does not resolve the problem. Add/removing volume via Spotlight security does not resolve the problem. Tried rm .Spotlight-V100 from workstation command line does not resolve the problem. Tried rm .Spotlight-V100 from console command line does not resolve the problem.
Weird observation 2: All users same group with RWE set and custom ACL. Privs have been propagated recursively. Correct user and group have ownership to .Spotlight so it's not an issue of write failure while indexing.
An identifiable pattern of failure remains elusive.

Adding storage to an Xserve

Hey folks,
We're thinking about buying an Xserve, in preparation for Final Cut Server.
However, we're wondering about adding storage.
I've heard that it's possible to connect an external RAID system through fiber to the Xserve, and have it manage the remote filesystem. I can build a 12TB Windows / Linux RAID5 box for about $6k. Can the Xserve manage this? If so, how does it work?
Thanks!
~Misfit

Details on the Xserve RAID are available here:
http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/
All the RAID is done on the controllers that come in the Xserve RAID. Configuration is done via a Java application called RAID Admin, which accesses it through a couple management ports (over Ethernet).
You need a fibre channel card (a.k.a. HBA) to connect the Xserve RAID to a system -- so you get one for $500 and put it in a Mac Pro, connect up the Xserve RAID (not all that unlike a super duper Firewire 800 connection) and you're good to go, with read speeds in the 300+ MB/sec range and writes in the 200 MB/sec range (so ~4x the theoretical max of Firewire 800, but about 5-10x the actual speed you'd get from typical FW 800 external solutions).

Time to upgrade to Xserve-Advice Please

Hi,
I'm currently the default "IT" guy at my company. We are a small company without any kind of dedicated IT department. We started out 15-20 years ago with a single Mac and have grown throughout the years. We now have 16 stations with 4 of them being PCs. At first we had our network setup with a simple file sharing setup. When we need to share files, each computer would connect with which ever other computer we needed to. This worked ok for a while but then we had the problem of archiving all of our data. I would manually compile everyone's work on a specific project and back it up to an external hard drive. This was not the most efficient solution, but it was effective and we used this method for many years. We've recently expanded our business to include Maya work which is done on PCs. At the same time we introduced 2x 2TB Lacie Ethernet network storage devices. Now I have everyone working within the same folder on the Lacie drives. This makes my life easier as far as archiving. Part of the problem I've got now is with the PCs. We've had them for a few months now and I've never really gotten them fully integrated into our environment. I have a single PC at home, but the work environment has always been completely Mac based. Meaning I have some PC knowledge but really none as far as networking goes. I know that we need to get a server to accomplish a couple of different things.
1) Better integration of PCs and Macs
2) Improved Rendering for Maya (PC based Maya)-We are going to implement a render farm into the mix as well- we are currently looking at a Boxx system and an SGI system as well
3) Central Storage with backup
4) Improved speed (with the Lacie storage devices, there is some slowdown when first connecting)
5) Remote login--i.e. something like the ability to login from home and set up a render over the weekend
I would prefer to go with an Xserve because of my familiarity with Mac products. My problem is that when I look at the specs for the Xserve, I really don't know what anything is. I have no idea how to price anything for the boss.
It makes me feel like I am getting in over my head, but at the same time, I am confident enough in my abilities that if I get the correct system set up, I should have no problem administering it for our needs.
A) I imagine I'd want to go with the 8 core to start with
B) What kind of performance boost-and in what areas-would I get with upgrading to the 2.93 or 2.66 GHz?
C) I imagine I should get the most RAM we could fit into the budget?
D) what is the Solid State drive? Do I need it?
E) I can have 3 hard drives. How many do I need? why would I need more than one?
F) Extra power supply..I understand why this makes sense
G) XSan? what is it? do I need it?
We currently also only have everything connected via ethernet. What's the deal with Fibre channel? Do I need to install a Fibre channel card in each workstation plus run all new wiring? If so then this is a very pricey deal and way unrealistic as far as budget at this time.
I'm also wondering about the render farm. Will either a Boxx system or a SGI system integrate well with an Xserve when rendering PC Maya files? Would there be an option to configure an Xserve as a render farm? If so could I render PC Maya files on it?
Sorry for the long winded post. I'm lost and need some help from some experts. Hopefully there is someone out there who can lead me in the right direction.
Thanks for your help.
Phil

Hi
My two cents.
+I know that we need to get a server to accomplish a couple of different things+
Apart from load balancing etc you don't really mention anything that either a 3rd-Party product might provide and what you've already got in place.
+1) Better integration of PCs and Macs+
With the environment you're describing you don't specifically need a Server for this although it depends on what you want to achieve.
+2) Improved Rendering for Maya (PC based Maya)-We are going to implement a render farm into the mix as well- we are currently looking at a Boxx system and an SGI system as well+
Perhaps XGrid might fit the bill?
+3) Central Storage with backup+
Depending on what Configuration you choose (Standard, Workgroup or Advanced) this could be easily achieved with what's already built in to the Server OS. On a side note the XServe is not the Server. The OS is. OSX Server can be installed on any qualifying hardware. The XServe is dedicated Server hardware built specifically to perform a Server (with all that that means) role. Redundancy is built-in. With what you're describing perhaps a suitable MacPro would be better?
With the XServe you have to consider a rack as well as noise if a rack is not an option.
+4) Improved speed (with the Lacie storage devices, there is some slowdown when first connecting)+
This is probably due to the fact the drives are connected to a client machine and OS that is now not coping with the amount of client access required. I'm guessing someone is also working at that client mac?
+5) Remote login--i.e. something like the ability to login from home and set up a render over the weekend+
This might be possible with XGrid although you might have a real problem with bandwidth
+I would prefer to go with an Xserve because of my familiarity with Mac products. My problem is that when I look at the specs for the Xserve, I really don't know what anything is. I have no idea how to price anything for the boss.+
+It makes me feel like I am getting in over my head, but at the same time, I am confident enough in my abilities that if I get the correct system set up, I should have no problem administering it for our needs.+
Leopard Server is a whole new ballgame and if not approached correctly Apple's marketing slogan of "No IT Required" may seem like a sick joke
+A) I imagine I'd want to go with the 8 core to start with+
If you have the budget get the best you can afford
+B) What kind of performance boost-and in what areas-would I get with upgrading to the 2.93 or 2.66 GHz?+
This would depend on what you want and what you're expecting. You won't really know until some time has passed. Besides how could you compare it? Unless you buy and bench test them both you can't really know? It might be possible you know someone who has exactly the same environment as you, doing exactly the same work and wanting exactly the same solution. However if you use google you should be able to find some performance bench test results? Whether they're applicable to your environment is another question.
+C) I imagine I should get the most RAM we could fit into the budget?+
See (A)
+D) what is the Solid State drive? Do I need it?+
http://support.apple.com/kb/SP511
http://www.apple.com/xserve/features/storage.html
http://blogs.computerworld.com/newapple_xserves_offer_additional_ssdbay
+E) I can have 3 hard drives. How many do I need? why would I need more than one?+
See (A). To be honest only you would really know? With the optional Apple RAID Card you could have 3x1TB Drives as a RAID 5. This provides some measure of redundancy (which is not a back-up) as well as performance. However you could as easily use a MacPro that has the 4 drive bays. Potentially 3+TB of Storage. A simple rule of thumb would be: How much data do I have now? Does the Storage I have now cope with it? Will the amount of Data grow over time? Do I have enough storage to cope with that growth?
+F) Extra power supply..I understand why this makes sense+
The XServe can be built-to-order with two PSUs providing redundancy. You should factor in a UPS as well. You don't want a power cut to potentially ruin all your data?
+G) XSan? what is it? do I need it?+
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/xsan/XsanGettingStarted.pdf
I think this would be way too much in terms of your environment as well as your budget. However read the pdf and come to a reasoned judgment.
+We currently also only have everything connected via ethernet. What's the deal with Fibre channel? Do I need to install a Fibre channel card in each workstation plus run all new wiring? If so then this is a very pricey deal and way unrealistic as far as budget at this time.+
No to the first two questions. Read the XSan pdf.
+I'm also wondering about the render farm. Will either a Boxx system or a SGI system integrate well with an Xserve when rendering PC Maya files? Would there be an option to configure an Xserve as a render farm? If so could I render PC Maya files on it?+
I have no experience of either of the two products you mention. Perhaps someone who does may post?
Does this help? Tony

Small Office Network Solution for Final Cut Server - Proxy Storage Etc.

Hi,
I haven't been able to find any answers for this question by googling, So I would love if anyone here had some advice. I have the 10 License version of Final Cut Studio with 5 clients at the moment. I would like to set-up our office in the most effective way, however we are a non-profit organization, so we are working with a limited budget.
My question is, does anyone know of any networking solutions for Proxy Storage and Media storage, that wont bottleneck, but is not as high budget/high tech as using an Xserve/XSan system?
Right now we would be looking at running Final Cut Server off of our 24inch Intel IMac (Going to beef up the RAM). We have a Gigabit Switch, 4 more intel machines running final Cut pro, and a direct attached Drobo for Media Storage. I know this is not an Ideal set-up, but it's what I have to work with right now. So, I'm looking for any kinds of tips and tricks to make this set-up work for us, and am looking at purchasing either a Network Attached or iscsI storage system for the Proxy Storage.
I hope this is a decent description of my situation, and would love some advice.
Thanks Very Much,
MacNomad

Hi,
I haven't been able to find any answers for this question by googling, So I would love if anyone here had some advice. I have the 10 License version of Final Cut Studio with 5 clients at the moment. I would like to set-up our office in the most effective way, however we are a non-profit organization, so we are working with a limited budget.
My question is, does anyone know of any networking solutions for Proxy Storage and Media storage, that wont bottleneck, but is not as high budget/high tech as using an Xserve/XSan system?
Right now we would be looking at running Final Cut Server off of our 24inch Intel IMac (Going to beef up the RAM). We have a Gigabit Switch, 4 more intel machines running final Cut pro, and a direct attached Drobo for Media Storage. I know this is not an Ideal set-up, but it's what I have to work with right now. So, I'm looking for any kinds of tips and tricks to make this set-up work for us, and am looking at purchasing either a Network Attached or iscsI storage system for the Proxy Storage.
I hope this is a decent description of my situation, and would love some advice.
Thanks Very Much,
MacNomad

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