Omneon MediaGrid¹
Active Storage System

Exceptional Performance For Media Workflows

MediaGrid has been purpose built to deliver high bandwidth and consistent latency in order to accelerate media workflows:

• Easily scale to tens of GB/s of bandwidth, including over 1GB/s to individual clients, enabling you to support the advanced file-based workflows you really want
• The MediaFS distributed file system, and client-side File System Driver, enable breakthrough levels of performance efficiency and true parallel access to distributed data
• Consistent performance as users are added, and as the file system grows
• Integrations and performance optimizations with leading media applications

Cost-Effective

MediaGrid is economical to purchase and own, and provides exceptional price/performance.

• Ethernet-based storage architecture is cost-effective to deploy and manage.
• Easily scale by adding nodes that include processing power and storage, and by adding storage-only nodes that are even more cost effective.
• Exceptional level of investment protection; when more performance or capacity is required, simply add additional storage nodes.

Simple To Deploy, Manage, and Scale

Compared to other high performance systems, MediaGrid is remarkably simple.

• Simple Ethernet-based architecture; no need for complex FC SANs.
• Non-disruptively scale capacity from 16 terabytes to multiple petabytes, and scale performance from a few hundred MB per second to tens of GB per second, without impacting users or applications.
• Single global name space scales to multiple petabytes, eliminating the need to create and manage multiple volumes.

Optimized for Media Workflows

MediaGrid is optimized specifically for the demanding requirements of digital media workflows:

• Tested and optimized with dozens of leading media applications, helping deliver optimal performance, and providing peace of mind that MediaGrid will work well with these solutions.
• Advanced, media-specific functionality such as the ability to edit growing files, which is a critical capability in environments such as sports broadcasting.
• Proven in demanding workflows with industry leaders in news and entertainment (CNN, BBC Sport, and NBC with their coverage of the Olympics), post-production (companies such as Modern VideoFilm and others), corporate media (Safeway, Home Depot, etc.), and other video workflows.
• Harmonic has deep expertise with media workflows, and provides media companies not just with a storage product, but with a media storage solution from an expert media partner.

The Reliability, Availability, and Support You Require

Shared storage is a critical resource in file-based workflows, and MediaGrid is built for the task.

• MediaGrid systems have no single point of failure and feature an array of redundant, hot-swappable components within the system.
• Advanced, proven software RAID to protect against drive failures
• No downtime for maintenance activities such as software upgrades or firmware upgrades.
• Disaster Recovery configurations, including an advanced campus-level disaster recovery (DR) configuration with transparent failover and failback.
• Unlike some alternative storage solutions which integrate a third party file system, the MediaFS file system and other components are all purpose built, integrated, and supported by Harmonic.

Harmonic provides global 24x7 support coverage, and has the media experts who can help you optimize your media workflows.

The MediaGrid 3000 is a fully integrated scale-out storage system comprised of the following components:

A key capability of the MediaGrid 3000 system is that the file system can be easily scaled from a few terabytes, to multiple petabytes, simply by adding ContentServers and ContentStores. Performance scales linearly as these components are added.

System-Level Specifications

MediaGrid BasePacks

To provide convenient base configurations from which to build a MediaGrid system, several BasePacks are available. MediaGrid BasePacks are complete entry system configurations, and include two ContentDirectors, one ContentServer with 16 drives, and all system software.

BasePack Model	Storage (raw)	Network Connectivity		ContentDirectors	System Manager, Content Manager
		GbE	10GbE
16TB/GbE	16TB	12		2
32TB/GbE	32TB	12		2
48TB/GbE	48TB	12		2
16TB/10GbE	16TB		4	2
32TB/10GbE	32TB		4	2
48TB/10GbE	48TB		4	2
48TB/10GbE HPCLD	48TB		4	2 (High Performance)

MediaGrid Component Specifications

Component Environmental Specifications

By using the environmental specifications for each individual component, provided below, aggregate system level environmental specifications can be generated for any specific MediaGrid configuration.