Avid® ISIS® 2000 v4.6 Performance and Redistribution Guide Change History Date Revised Release 12/8/2013 4.6 Avid has added support for Windows v8.1 and Mac OSX v10.9. 10/11/2013 4.5 Release of the 2000 v4.5 Performance Guide Changes Made This document provides Avid ISIS 2000 performance guidance for the Avid ISIS v4.6 release. Expected per engine performance and the duration of redistributions have been outlined. This release supports Symphony/Media Composer v. 7.0.x, v6.5.x, 6.x and 5.5.3.
Contents 1.0 What’s new for ISIS 2000 in version 4.6 ............................................................................... 3 2.0 What’s new for ISIS 2000 in version 4.5 ............................................................................... 3 3.0 Overview .............................................................................................................................. 4 4.0 Engine Bandwidth .................................................................................
1.0 What’s new for ISIS 2000 in version 4.6 Avid has added support for Windows v8.1 and Mac OSX v10.9. 2.0 What’s new for ISIS 2000 in version 4.5 The following is a list of what is new in ISIS 4.5 as it pertains to ISIS 2000. This is not a complete list of all the new features for that release. For a full list, see the ISIS 4.5 ReadMe. The Avid ISIS 7000, Avid ISIS 5500/5000 and Avid ISIS 2000 infrastructures now support clients with the Windows 8 64-bit operating system. Note: Version 4.
3.0 Overview ISIS 2000 is high density resilient, RAID6 based, nearline storage system that integrates seamlessly into the ISIS Interplay workflow. The purpose of this section is to provide a performance characterization of an ISIS 2000 Engine configuration. The ISIS 2000 System Director and Engine(s) connect to a separate VLAN on the Avid Production Network (APN) switch. The Engine requires a 10 Gb link to the APN and the System Director can either be a 10 Gb or 1 Gb connection to the APN.
.0 Engine Bandwidth During Initialization/Rebuilds The ISIS 2000 system is optimized for performance during initialization and rebuilds operations. Because the system is RAID6 based, with 10 X 8 drive RAID6 arrays, it is possible to sustain up to two drive failures within any RAID6 array and not lose any data. For a system that is not under load the time it takes for an initialization, or rebuild, to complete is approximately 72 hours.
2000-120 infrastructure to the latest ISIS software, that is when to update add the 40 new drives (120 TB) to the existing ISIS 2000-120 Engine and Bind the new Storage Manager. After the new Storage Manager is Bound, you can add additional ISIS 2000 Engines and Bind them. Then select all your new Storage Managers and do a single Add redistribution. 9.0 Adding Engines The ISIS 4.5 release supports up to 5 ISIS 2000 engine.
10.0 Editor Hardware and Software Used During Testing The following chart describes the hardware and software used during testing this release. This table does not reflect all platforms that are supported. Platform HP z820 Lenovo C30 HP z800 HP z820 HP z420 Lenovo S30 HP z400 OS Windows 8.1 64-bit Windows 7 64-bit SP1 Windows 8.1 64-bit Windows 7 64-bit SP1 Windows 8.1 64-bit Windows 7 64-bit SP1 Red Hat Linux 6.2/6.3 Windows 8.1 64-bit Windows 7 64-bit SP1 Windows 8.
Platform OS CPU Memory Editor Version ISIS Client Media Composer 6.0 Media Composer 5.5 Media Composer 7.0 HP 8570w Windows 7 64-bit SP1 i7-3820QM 2.7 GHz 8 GB Media Composer 6.5 Media Composer 6.0 v4.6 Media Composer 5.5 Media Composer 7.0 HP 8760w Windows 7 64-bit SP1 4 Core 2.3 GHz Intel i7 4 GB Media Composer 6.5 Media Composer 6.0 v4.6 Media Composer 5.5 Media Composer 7.0 Dell M6600 Windows 7 64-bit SP1 4 Core 2.20 GHz Intel i7 4 GB Media Composer 6.5 Media Composer 6.0 v4.