Autodesk Stone Shared
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Features

Download the Autodesk® Stone® Shared technical specification.

Autodesk Stone Shared Technical Specification (pdf - 295Kb)

Main Components

  • SSH8500 appliance based on DataDirect™ Networks Silicon Storage Appliance (S2A) technology
  • SGI® Origin 350 metadata and file server*
  • InfiniteStorage shared filesystem CXFS
  • Fibre-Channel storage units (JBOD drives and enclosures)
  • Adapters, Fibre-Channel switches and cabling

Silicon Storage Appliance Features

Stone Shared utilizes SSH8500 appliances that provide consolidated and fully integrated SAN functionality in a single, powerful, easy-to-manage and intelligent device. The SSH offers a fully pipelined, parallel processing architecture designed to deliver a highly reliable SAN storage solution that is both easy to install and manage and easy to scale in capacity and performance. Its zero-bottleneck architecture removes the complexity, congestion, latency, and contention of switched fabric SANs.
  • Single or dual 2U SSH with four or eight 2Gb/s ports
  • 20 back-end Fibre-Channel loops
  • Up to 148 disk drives supported in standard configurations*
  • 5, 10, 21, or 42 TB Fibre-Channel disks capacity in standard configurations*
  • Sustained Performance with random access up to 1.0 GB/sec per couplet*
  • Full Fibre-Channel Duplex Performance on every port
  • No performance penalties in degraded mode operation; very fast rebuild rate
  • 1 GB/sec+ individual LUNs without host-based striping

CXFS Features

Stone Shared features SGI’s InfiniteStorage CXFS shared file-system. CXFS is a powerful cross-platform file-system capable of delivering superior performance while scaling massively to meet the most demanding needs of digital media production. Key characteristics of the CXFS shared file-system include:
  • High performance: capable of sustaining extremely high data rates (read/write)
  • Mediation and management of concurrent shared file access
  • High workload: multiple processes on multiple hosts directly reading/writing the same file
  • Guaranteed Rate I/O (GRIO): guarantees required bandwidths to the user/application**

Other Features

Integrated software features with no need for external software. Key features include:
  • LUN mapping and masking by WWN
  • Port zoning
  • Real-time data verification
  • Background data dcrubbing
  • LUN in cache
  • Placeholder LUNs
  • Intelligent stream detection
  • Read-only LUNs
  • Advanced AV modes

Optional Software Features

In addition to the standard features, the following features are available as an option:
  • Java®-based GUI
  • System management console with SNMP trap display utility
  • Logging
  • Remote administration utility
  • Telephone fault notification utility

Standard Communication

Ethernet Telnet, Ethernet SNMP, RS-232 Serial, SES in-band, Management API

*Custom configurations are fully scaleable. Contact Autodesk Media and Entertainment for a solution tailored to your needs.
**not currently certified for Stone Shared