Hey Guys,
I work for a server manufacturer and we specialize in the media and entertainment industry. We recently had a client ask for 900TB of storage and we have a solution for that but it's kind of ugly, so I'm looking at other alternative software's on the server side that would run on either windows or linux and then connect to workstation machines. I'm open to the idea of using virtual machines as well, but I have no idea how that would look in our current working environment.
We have traditionally worked off of one physical server for up to 50 clients at a time playing back HD, and about 10 to 20 clients playing back UHD and 4K.
But with a request for 900TB I'm wondering how we could do things differently. Each workstation will need at least 400-500MBps to playback uncompressed video with color correction effects applied.
I think it's an interesting approach to use Vitrual Machines, but how would the client desktops view the editing workstation. In all of our builds each machine/workstation was connected via a 10GigE either optical or cat 6E cable. So I'm just so confused when it comes to how a VM solution could work, but I do know of one post house that some how plays back footage in the editing bay room from a computer located in the server room. I hope that's not confusing. Anyways let me know.
I work for a server manufacturer and we specialize in the media and entertainment industry. We recently had a client ask for 900TB of storage and we have a solution for that but it's kind of ugly, so I'm looking at other alternative software's on the server side that would run on either windows or linux and then connect to workstation machines. I'm open to the idea of using virtual machines as well, but I have no idea how that would look in our current working environment.
We have traditionally worked off of one physical server for up to 50 clients at a time playing back HD, and about 10 to 20 clients playing back UHD and 4K.
But with a request for 900TB I'm wondering how we could do things differently. Each workstation will need at least 400-500MBps to playback uncompressed video with color correction effects applied.
I think it's an interesting approach to use Vitrual Machines, but how would the client desktops view the editing workstation. In all of our builds each machine/workstation was connected via a 10GigE either optical or cat 6E cable. So I'm just so confused when it comes to how a VM solution could work, but I do know of one post house that some how plays back footage in the editing bay room from a computer located in the server room. I hope that's not confusing. Anyways let me know.
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