2.2
Table Of Contents
- Important Information
- Note: For information on upgrading to MCS 2.2 from an earlier release, see the MCS 2.2 Upgrading Guide, available from the Avid Knowledge Base MCS 2.2 web page.
- Revision History
- About MCS 2.2
- 1 Audience
- 2 What’s New
- 3 Overview
- 4 Qualified Servers
- 5 Operating System Requirements
- 6 Memory Requirements
- 7 Caching and HDD Requirements
- 8 Optional Items for Connection to ISIS
- 9 Deploying Multiple Servers
- 10 HP DL360 Gen9 Hardware Requirements
- 11 Dell PowerEdge R630 Hardware Requirements
- 12 Over-Specifying and Under-Specifying the Hardware
- 13 Adding Memory to Accommodate Higher-Quality Playback
- 14 How Many Servers: MediaCentral & Media Composer | Cloud
- 15 How Many Servers: Interplay | MAM
- 16 Appendix A: HP DL360p Gen8 Hardware Requirements
- 17 Copyright and Disclaimer
MediaCentral Platform Services 2.2 Hardware Guide
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6.2 128GB RAM Slot Usage
When configuring the server with 128GB RAM, the following illustration shows acceptable
DIMM placement.
Memory
Channel
Memory
Channel
Memory
Channel
Memory
Channel
SLOT SLOT SLOT SLOT SLOT SLOT SLOT SLOT SLOT SLOT SLOT SLOT
Memory
Channel
Memory
Channel
Memory
Channel
Memory
Channel
SLOT SLOT SLOT SLOT SLOT SLOT SLOT SLOT SLOT SLOT SLOT SLOT
8 8 --
8
8 --
8 8 -- 8 8 -- 8 8
--
8 8 --
8 8 -- 8 8 --
1
6
-- --
1
6
-- --
1
6
-- --
1
6
-- --
1
6
--
--
1
6
-- --
1
6
-- --
1
6
-- --
16 x 8 GB DIMMs: better performance @ 96 GB, expandable to 192 GB.
8 x 16 GB DIMMs: expandable to 384 GB.
128 GB
128 GB
Xeon E5
2650
(v3)
Xeon E5
2650
(v3)
Dual 12-core
Dual 12-core
In the above illustration, both deployment styles are acceptable, since each channel receives at
least one DIMM.
7 Caching and HDD Requirements
In several workflows, MCS generates and caches web and mobile format media assets. These
workflows include:
• Multi-cam logging functionality is used in MediaCentral | UX, must be configured with
media cache drives.
• iOS application Interplay and iNEWS video asset playback.
• Interplay | MAM browse proxy file-based playback for formats that cannot be natively
loaded in the Flash player (MPEG-1, Sony XDCAM, WMV, Harmonic MXF).
These workflows all share the same requirement: video playback from a web or mobile
application is requested of a source media asset that is not web or mobile compliant. In this case
MCS must locally generate a web and mobile compliant copy of the source media asset. This
asset is then served to the requesting web or mobile application. The asset is also cached in
anticipation of a subsequent playback request.
As a result, additional drives are required on MCS servers for this cache:
The HP ProLiant DL360 supports up to 8 internal drives. 2 drives are used for the
operating system (in a RAID 1 configuration).
The Dell PowerEdge R630 supports up to 10 internal drives. 2 drives are used for the
operating system (in a RAID 1 configuration).