ATTO Technology 2390 Setup Guide download pdf (Page 23)

NOTE Lustre with Incinerator doesn’t need local storage and uses InfiniBand to connect Incinerator.

Connecting and Configuring the ATTO Fibre Channel Adapter

Your workstation is configured with a 4-port ATTO Celerity FC-44ES fibre channel adapter in PCI slot four.

On the HP xw8600 workstation the PCI slots are numbered one to seven from top to bottom. Consult the

Peripherals Connection Diagram as a reference for the ATTO fibre channel adapter location.

FC loop 2

FC loop 3

To storage assembly

FC loop 4

FC loop 1

To archiving device or SAN

QLA2344 or

FC44-ES

FC adapter

Connecting Archive Storage

NOTE This section does not apply to Lustre.

For data archiving, your Visual Effects and Finishing application supports the following devices:

■ USB 2 and FireWire

(IEEE 1394) attached devices. They can be formatted as XFS, ext2, ext3, or HFS

(Mac

) file systems. NTFS is not supported.

■ Fibre channel devices that use standard UNIX tape device calls.

The fibre channel devices that may be used are the ones for which the vendor confirms the following:

■ The device driver is compliant with standard UNIX tape device calls.

■ The device is certified for use with the specific versions of your operating system and kernel, Red Hat

Enterprise Linux Workstation 4.0, Update 3.

While Autodesk Media & Entertainment makes no certification statement about any device, the following

SCSI devices have been tested and found to be reliable when connected using an ATTO Fibre Channel to

SCSI Bridge 2390:

■ Quantum LT03

■ Quantum DLT8000

■ Quantum DLT7000

■ Sony

™

AIT3 SDX-D700C

■ Sony AIT2

Configuring the Archiving Device

The software initialization file (init.cfg) for your Visual Effects and Finishing application contains examples

of the use of the ClipMgtDevice Tape keywords. Use these examples to select a block size value for your tape

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