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- Real Name: C. Ryan Stemple
This is a message for any BMD developers who may see this and be in the know about the functionality of this new product!
With the Cloud Store Max 24TB and 48TB models announced, I'm curious about the connectivity possibilities. Given that each Cloud Store Max unit has a 100G Ethernet port, can 2 Cloud Store Max units connect to each other via 100G Ethernet such that up to 8 workstation users plugged into the Cloud Stores via the provided 4 10G Ethernet ports on each unit would each be able to access both Cloud Stores at the same time? I realize that if this is indeed possible, those Cloud Stores would be their own separate storage solutions and not one single pool, but I'm not even sure these units *could* work in this way.
If connecting 2 Cloud Store Max units together directly to work in this way isn't possible, would two Cloud Store Max units connected to the newly announced Blackmagic Ethernet Switch, each via one of the Switch's 2 100G Ethernet ports, be accessible at once via a machine plugged into a 10G Ethernet port on the Switch?
It may very well be that these are scenarios that haven't yet been tested - but considering that one of the promo images on the Blackmagic Ethernet Switch page shows x2 Cloud Store Max 48TB units racked on top of each other below a Blackmagic Ethernet Switch unit, I'm under the impression that this *has* been tested and is indeed possible. Not to mention the copy "Unlimited Storage" and referencing adding "a second store" when describing the Cloud Store Max units on the DaVinci Resolve Replay Editor page.
With the Cloud Store Max 24TB and 48TB models announced, I'm curious about the connectivity possibilities. Given that each Cloud Store Max unit has a 100G Ethernet port, can 2 Cloud Store Max units connect to each other via 100G Ethernet such that up to 8 workstation users plugged into the Cloud Stores via the provided 4 10G Ethernet ports on each unit would each be able to access both Cloud Stores at the same time? I realize that if this is indeed possible, those Cloud Stores would be their own separate storage solutions and not one single pool, but I'm not even sure these units *could* work in this way.
If connecting 2 Cloud Store Max units together directly to work in this way isn't possible, would two Cloud Store Max units connected to the newly announced Blackmagic Ethernet Switch, each via one of the Switch's 2 100G Ethernet ports, be accessible at once via a machine plugged into a 10G Ethernet port on the Switch?
It may very well be that these are scenarios that haven't yet been tested - but considering that one of the promo images on the Blackmagic Ethernet Switch page shows x2 Cloud Store Max 48TB units racked on top of each other below a Blackmagic Ethernet Switch unit, I'm under the impression that this *has* been tested and is indeed possible. Not to mention the copy "Unlimited Storage" and referencing adding "a second store" when describing the Cloud Store Max units on the DaVinci Resolve Replay Editor page.
C. Ryan Stemple, CSI
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- MacBook Air ('22) | Apple M2 | 24 GB | Ventura 13.0.1