First thing that comes to mind is that 6.5.4.4 is a really old release of code. This cluster should be very capable of running the latest releases, and going to 7.0.2.9 plus the latest SMB patch would be my recommendation. There's an even better reason to go to that release: larger transfer sizes with SMB2. In 6.5, the transfer size for SMB2 was 64KB. In 7.0 and later, it's 1MB. So, higher throughput at a protocol level, which would give you higher theoretical transfer speeds.
I know I'm talking about SMB2 here, and you're using NFS... was that a requirement with Premiere? I would've assumed that it would support SMB, but haven't tested that directly. I agree with what Peter said above and that whitepaper is going to help a lot.
But, the version of code is only part of it. You probably want to set up the directories where you're storing your video content for streaming layout. That's something you can do from the SmartPools settings page, in the default settings, with a file pool policy, or even from File Explorer (but I recommend using SmartPools where possible). The reason for streaming is that it'll use as many drives as possible for streaming media workflows in order to deliver that higher read throughput (and 4K obviously has higher throughput requirements, depending on the codecs being used).
While windows supports NFS, the SMB network file sharing protocol provides better performance and compatibility. I think peter quickly got the point, cool.
BernieC
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July 23rd, 2014 03:00
First thing that comes to mind is that 6.5.4.4 is a really old release of code. This cluster should be very capable of running the latest releases, and going to 7.0.2.9 plus the latest SMB patch would be my recommendation. There's an even better reason to go to that release: larger transfer sizes with SMB2. In 6.5, the transfer size for SMB2 was 64KB. In 7.0 and later, it's 1MB. So, higher throughput at a protocol level, which would give you higher theoretical transfer speeds.
I know I'm talking about SMB2 here, and you're using NFS... was that a requirement with Premiere? I would've assumed that it would support SMB, but haven't tested that directly. I agree with what Peter said above and that whitepaper is going to help a lot.
But, the version of code is only part of it. You probably want to set up the directories where you're storing your video content for streaming layout. That's something you can do from the SmartPools settings page, in the default settings, with a file pool policy, or even from File Explorer (but I recommend using SmartPools where possible). The reason for streaming is that it'll use as many drives as possible for streaming media workflows in order to deliver that higher read throughput (and 4K obviously has higher throughput requirements, depending on the codecs being used).
Peter_Sero
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July 23rd, 2014 02:00
Tons of information here:
https://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/technical-documentation/h10797-ra-oneFS-and-adobe-premiere-pro.pdf
First and bottom line: use SMB, not NFS, for Windows...
Jeffey1
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July 23rd, 2014 02:00
Hi Andi,
While windows supports NFS, the SMB network file sharing protocol provides better performance and compatibility. I think peter quickly got the point, cool.
AndiW81
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July 24th, 2014 00:00
Thx you for your reply.
I´m trying to perform a relase update, and then a try it with SMB.
Jeffey1
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July 24th, 2014 01:00
Good luck.
AndiW81
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February 10th, 2015 02:00
Hello
It took a while, but we have now updated to the Version 7.1.1, and the Performance for 4k Videos is better.
Thx