![]() ![]() That changed a few years ago with the advent of 10G ethernet, and over the last few years, ethernet based NAS solutions have gone from feeling cheap, buggy, and poorly performing, to now being significantly faster, better, cheaper and easier to support than any shared storage in the industry. Fibre based solutions used to be the only things that could handle video and were the only game in town for media professionals. The reality is that technology has changed a lot since Xsan came out. After a few years of intense R&D, multiple prototypes and installations we developed an all Ethernet based platform optimized for real world collaborative workflow. Just like you we found it to be over-complicated, loud, inefficient, hard to setup and troubleshoot but what other options were there? Eventually we became so unhappy with the performance, lack of documentation and support we began looking for an Xsan alternative. LumaForge was founded by people who used to integrate Xsan systems. We know your pain we understand what you’ve been through. If any of this sounds familiar you’re in the right place. Worst of all, you’re sick and tired of calling in your Xsan person and having them poke around your unit for two hours only to suggest rotating it a bit so that it’s a little more in tune with the moon’s orbit. On top of all this, you’re completely dependent on a pair of aging Mac minis that better not fail leaving you and your team in a perpetual state of fear with no real understanding of how it all works. It’s extremely hard to set up new clients, there’s virtually no documentation, and the GUI is so inaccurate that you’d better be a command line expert to get the information you need. ![]() Maybe you’ve noticed that it completely falls apart with FCPX Libraries, Resolve, and Premiere projects or seen the performance issues with 4K whether you’re ingesting or doing any operations that require a bit of bandwidth. Today, however, the Xsan platform is increasingly unsupported, harder to troubleshoot, and the moment you start to push your Xsan even a tiny bit a beachball shows up. It used to work great with your SD and 720p media in Final Cut Pro 7. Active Viewer and ActiveSAN Admin Software suite.If you’re like a lot of people working in video today, you’re probably finding that your Xsan is no longer cutting it. Lights Out Management via Active Viewer Redundant hot swap 600W auto-sensing power supplies Mirrored hot swap 1TB Hitachi Enterprise Class SATA hard drives ![]() Dual port 8Gb Fibre Channel Card with SFPs Softpedia readers can download the complete ActiveSAN Product Overview (in PDF format) here. Shipping will begin in the second quarter of 2011 while pricing and configurations are yet to be announced.Ī list of specifications for ActiveSan can be found below. The product will be demoed at the NAB 2011 convention in April, Active Storage officials said. The server computer uses Linux and the Quantum StorNext SAN file system, under the Active Storage-designed user interface and management suite, to achieve “phenomenal ease of use in deployment and management of the operating system and StorNext.” But all that changes-with ActiveSAN,” said Active Storage.Ī high-performance metadata controller appliance for Xsan and StorNext networks, ActiveSAN is a server-based appliance that incorporates Active Storage product design and the rock-solid performance and reliability of an Intel Nehalem server platform, all in a 1U rack form factor. “Previously, that meant one thing: Xsan on an Xserve. “Xsan users in high-pressure Media and Entertainment markets require datacenter-level quality products to manage their SAN volumes, but also demand the ease of use and setup of Xsan,” according to the company. “Until now, the Apple Xserve was the Metadata Controller of choice for Xsan installations, providing enterprise form factor and capabilities,” Active Storage officials said. ![]() The company run by former Apple staffers has come up with a solution - the ActiveSan. Following Apple’s official discontinuation of the Xsan, Active Storage confirmed plans to come to the rescue. ![]()
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