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Hi all, I have ~2600 LTO 3 tapes that need to be stored in fireproof cabinets. Any recommended vendors? Eventually these tapes will be migrated to LTO 7, but for the time being I need to find cabinets to store them. Thanks in advance. |
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| posted by Saker Klippsten on Nov. 29, 2017, 7:10 p.m. | |||||||
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What rating? most only last 2 hours.. which in my mind does not do much at all.. So you need to pray that 1. The fire is small. and not hot. 2. FireDept can put it out in time. 3. You can get there before the fire is out of control. 4. The FireDept will let you in there.. 5. You can actually pickup and move 2600 tape while shits hitting the fan. You need 7 of these suckers at 6k each.. or 3 of these at 10k each You are better off making a duplicate copy to tape or to a nas box and renting a storage unit down the street ( which is all concrete block ) and sticking the OG tapes in there.. keep the nas onsite. -S On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Bill Heiden <content@studiosysadmins.com> wrote:
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| posted by Todd Smith on Nov. 29, 2017, 9:30 p.m. (1 day ago) | |||||||
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I agree with Saker, store a duplicate onsite, and keep the original either with a data management facility (Iron Mountain etc.) and on a tight budget in a temperature controlled concrete storage place. I priced out fireproof cabinets for tape before, large investment for little gain, even offsite managed solutions are cheaper than those cabinets. 2600 LTO3s though, that's a lot of data janitorial work. We did all our DLT to LTO6 last year, was hellish and not even close to those numbers. Todd Smith Head of Information Technology soho vfx | 40 Hanna Ave. Suite 403, Toronto, Ontario M6K 0C3 office: (416) 516-7863 fax: (416) 516-9682 web: sohovfx.com From: "Bill Heiden" <content@studiosysadmins.com> To: "studiosysadmins-discuss" <studiosysadmins-discuss@studiosysadmins.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 6:50:39 PM Subject: [SSA-Discuss] Recommendations for fireproof cabinets (LTO storage)
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OSX Automount schema from Active Directory | ||||||
| posted by Michal Mocnak on Nov. 30, 2017, 10:14 a.m. | ||||||
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VMware Horizon View for VDI/PCoIP workstations | ||||||
| posted by Julian Firminger on Nov. 30, 2017, 11 a.m. | ||||||
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As promised, reporting back regarding using VMware Horizon View and nVidia GRID for delivering remote workstations. What can I say, it works extremely well and considering I have editors confident to use it for mid-range production work at 50fps (not just offline), I reckon theres a good chance it will work well for VFX. Before you all get too excited, the platform we have up is fairly narrow in its implementation. So YMMV. Were exclusively testing Win10 VMs supporting Avid MediaComposer. Test Host: HPE DL380Gen10/2x28c/768G/5x480GB-RI-SSD-raid6/4x10G 1xTeslaM60 (Big shout out to the peeps at Escape for renting us one so fast) ESXi v6.0u3 VMWare Horizon View 7.3 Security Server Connection Server Composer vCenter GRID vGPU ESXi host driver MediaComposer 8.9.2 VM edition on Win10ent VMs nVidia GRID driver Nexis 7.9 Interplay 3.4 HP t630 Thin Clients. Dual Screen 1920x1080 fully featured Avid Media Composer will run over PCoIP native protocol consuming 8-14Mbps. The OS and app UI (mouse/key and Wacom) are imperceptible to actual hardware. Video playback in S/R mode (~quarter screen) is good to excellent. Full-screen playback at 50fps drops frames. At 25fps seems ok. Note that this is test #1 using native PCoIP, not the supposedly much groovier VMware Blast Extreme protocol. (this has audio dropout issues currently but weve not spent much time trying to work that out.) Blast should, at least it says so on the tin, support 60fps. I've no reason to doubt that either, the cursory tests we did appear to do this, but it has other issues that I cannot resolve yet. Using homogenous grid_M60-1q vGPUs it looks like we can run 16 VMs on a host. Though testing for that will commence in two weeks when we build out to the production host. For now Im stuck with a max of 4 due to PSU/Heat restrictions. 4 VMs run concurrently without issue and actually outperform the equivalent 4 x z440 workstations on most import/export/transcode/conform/render operations. We have seen some weirdness with real-time effects all running concurrently, and multicam is an issue (though we think not entirely related to the VMs, more network) Its an impressive system and will scale very well. View itself is meant to be multi-site/multi-domain and has integral to it a bunch of features youd probably end up building manually if you used something else. Like its own Client>tunnel>DMZ>internal topology. Literally every component is designed with security, HA and scaling in mind. Its also bombastically expensive at a small scale and complicated to deploy. For low-midrange workstation replacements this appears, at least for now, as a completely viable solution if you have both the scale-economics and skills on staff to justify it. Julian FirmingerSenior Systems Administrator United Broadcast Facilities Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
Holiday Party! | ||||||
| posted by anthonyhoit on Dec. 1, 2017, 2:51 p.m. | ||||||
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Thought some of you might want some holiday party action. RFX Christmas Party! --- Come join RFX, Autodesk, GenArts & The [RE]DESIGN Group for an evening of Christmas cheer. Meet up with friends, eat great food, have a drink, network and catch the latest with Flame, Maya, Arnold, Sapphire & Shotgun. Raffles & Prizes! Come for the tasty food, drinks & bring your Christmas Cheer! --- https://www.rfx.com/event/rfx-mas-party-technology-event-12-7-17/265
Happy Holidays! -Anthony |
Isilon Tips and Tricks Webinar / Dec 7th 11am PST | ||||||
| posted by Brett Dellandre on Dec. 5, 2017, 3:24 p.m. (3 days ago) | ||||||
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Hello SSA, I hope I am not breaking the forum rules here.
Dell EMC is hosting and Isilon Tips and Tricks Webinar on Dec 7th at 11am PST.
Register here: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/13935/291795/tips-and-tricks-to-rock-your-isilon-world
Details: Join us on December 7th at 11am PT / 2pm ET to learn our top tips and tricks for getting the most out of your Isilon implementation. Based on working with customers around the world, our Isilon technical experts will share insights and best practices across configuration, operation and management of Isilon environments. Time will also be allocated to a live ‘Ask-The-Expert’ session, so be sure to bring your specific questions and learn from your peer’ questions. Presented by Rash Vyas, Phil Lam, and Scott Owens
The webinar will play during the following time: North America: Thursday, December 7th at 11:00 a.m. PST / 2:00 p.m. EST |
RV - video starts playing super fast and no audio | ||||||
| posted by Greg Whynott on Dec. 5, 2017, 4:25 p.m. (3 days ago) | ||||||
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We are seeing periodically instances where media being played back in RV from a playlist will start playing at fast forward speeds and without audio on its own. I've been told that while this is happening, changing the audio rate preferences, mute / un mute or anything will fix the issue. Anyone having or heard of similar issues? CentOS 7.2 and 3, with pulseaudio, RV 7.2.1. danke! -greg |
Remember FinderRefresh? There's more.... | ||||||
| posted by Dan Young on Dec. 7, 2017, 1:45 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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Hey y'all, a little pump for Matt Timmons (matt.timmons@icloud.com) - a list member from TX - he had previously made us a Finder Refresh tool that is now named "Window Refresh" - and it's got a sister tool now for relative link building. They're cheap and cheerful tools, check 'em out below! https://productionworkflow.solutions/ Saved my bacon enough times with a wide-spread of NFS vs. Mac Finder issues, it's a worthwhile tool for 5$. Best, DY |
Adobe PP MAM systems | ||||||
| posted by Julian Firminger on Dec. 12, 2017, 8:25 a.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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Listwarriors: We're looking to deploy a large scale MAM for Premiere workflow's. By large scale I mean comparable to Interplay on the whole (or nearly whole) feature set. (I.e. not the storage-centric MAM systems like EditShare and nothing as small as Metus). Is anyone else out there doing end to end workflow and asset management for collaborative workflows for Premiere? If so what are you using to do it? We're considering both Dalet and Sony Hive so far if anyone has experience / thoughts on these too. Julian FirmingerSenior Systems Administrator United Broadcast Facilities Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
Moving to CentOS 7 | ||||||
| posted by Alfred Young on Dec. 12, 2017, 7:11 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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CentOS 6 is starting to feel really dated. I'm considering moving my workstation to CentOS 7 while the rest of the network remains on 6.8, and becoming a guiena pig. Can anyone point me to any material to help in a possible transition? Any help would be appreciated.
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do you know where I can buy bulk amounts of GPUs? | ||||||
| posted by Greg Whynott on Dec. 13, 2017, 2:50 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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I'm looking to buy a lot of GPUs in one purchase, Considering a few potentials, it'll likely be one of the below: |
Anyone interested in a 2005 Panasonic Plasma | ||||||
| posted by Michael Stein on Dec. 15, 2017, 1:20 a.m. | ||||||
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Through a series of events, I've come back into possession of a Panasonic TH-42PX50U that I bought back in 2005. It was used regularly until 2009, and then for 7.5 years it said virtually unused and untouched by human hands at my in-laws. Its currently living with us in Hollywood, so would need to be picked up from there. I did a quick test and it looks in good shape, although YMMV in a professional environment. Fun facts - its heavy (about 100 pounds), and it has more composite inputs than HDMI (2 vs. 1). I've had several people tell me that someone would want it, but no one seems to buying them in the places you'd think. If this is something that has interest, hit me up offline and I'm sure we can arrange an amenable price. I'd love to see it go to a good home rather than the recycle yard. |
Anyone else feel like Dell has dropped off? | ||||||
| posted by Derrick MacPherson on Dec. 21, 2017, 3:40 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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It seems like Dell does not have the same respect and service for our industry as it once did, its totally different than it was up until a year or two ago.. What do you all think? |
Fake GPUs from B&H and Amazon? | ||||||
| posted by James Cohen on Dec. 29, 2017, 12:21 a.m. | ||||||
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We needed to rush order a Quadro M6000 for Background Reactor on a Flame. First we ordered one from B&H. When I pulled it from its shipping box I saw that the card said GTX 970 on the side... figured it was an honest mistake, and started a return. We still needed that card, so I placed a second order on Amazon (sold through "Professional Graphics Solutions"). Opened the Amazon box, and inside was a GPU shaped HP box that was shrink wrapped. Opened that box, and inside was lierally greasy NUTS, BOLTS, and a CASTER wrapped up in foam! Called up Amazon customer service, sent back the nuts and bolts, got our money back in a couple of days. No biggie. Back to the B&H card. I looked at it a little closer, and I realized that part of the GTX 970 had been spray painted green to appear as if it was a Quadro M6000. I alerted B&H customer service to this, and shipped it back. A Customer Returns Supervisor at B&H emails me back and says that barcodes have been taken off a real Quadro M6000 and put on this card... and then essentially accuses me of the fraud and says they can't accept the return. After yelling at their customer service on the phone for a while, they remained firm. So I guess I'll try a credit card chargeback? Has anyone seen anything like this before? B&H got the fake Quadro M6000 from what appears to be HP's returns warehouse or something to that effect. There are some stickers on it that indicate its origin and history. My narrative is that someone ordered a Quadro M6000 (or got it bundled with a Z840), doctored up a GTX 970 to look like the more expensive card, initiated a return, got their money back and kept the M6000. Anyone have any idea how to contact this department at HP to do some detective work where the fraud occurred (upstream of B&H)?
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Friday funnies? | ||||||
| posted by Greg Whynott on Dec. 29, 2017, 11:10 a.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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I knew it wasn't a paranoid conspiracy theory!! Sent from a slow iPhone. |
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| posted by Ben De Luca on Jan. 1, 2018, 7:20 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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Hi, I wondered if any one had done the RND on record size for VFX workflows? I was looking at optimising one particular workflow with backups and virtual tapes and record size was hugely significant. I am guessing it will be for vfx work flows also, but wondered if any one had actually RND'd it. |
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| posted by Brian Krusic on Jan. 2, 2018, 1:40 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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| Hi, Ive had very good results with 1M record size and 1M NFS r/w size. Well, I mean as good as it can be. All in all nothing is ever really fast enough :) - Brian Every day is a gift Thats why they call it the present"
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Intel CPU bug | ||||||
| posted by Robin Scher on Jan. 2, 2018, 11:30 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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| https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/ |
Nvidia says no no no - to GeForce in the datacenter. | ||||||
| posted by Saker Klippsten on Jan. 3, 2018, 2:15 a.m. | ||||||
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| http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/03/nvidia_server_gpus/ Not sure what constitutes a datacenter? They do not explicitly define it under definitions. No Datacenter Deployment. The SOFTWARE is not licensed for datacenter deployment, except that blockchain processing in a datacenter is permitted. Sent from my iPhone |
