This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Avid Unity Seat Limit?

portserver pro licencing is on the Unity dongle. The PSP dongle only allows PSP to operate on the server. This also doesn't work above Unity 4.x

On Aug 7, 2012, at 12:41 PM, "Dom Q. Silverio" <domqsilverio@gmail.com> wrote:

> In theory should work. PortServer is nothing more than a fiber client.
> Unity ethernet client connect to the PortServer service via IP protocol.
> PortServer then mounts the drive locally and pushes it out to share.
>
> So if you connect another PortServer (you need another SR2xxxx computer
> with fiber card), connect it via fiber (think Unity v4.x), give it another
> IP address you should be able to expand it. HOWEVER, your SR2xxx PortServer
> would need a PortServer dongle (remember think Unity 4). With Unity 5 and
> LANshare, that license is part of the main server dongle.
>
> Dom Q. Silverio
>
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:30 PM, johnrobmoore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:
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> > All our clients are ethernet. We use fibre for our main storage of media
> > and unity for project sharing. Is there any way to take the fibre feed and
> > connect to an additional port server to get more ethernet clients? Just
> > trying to think outside the box literally.
> >
> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Dom Q. Silverio" <domqsilverio@...>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I thought the 20 limit is on ethernet clients.
> > > Fiber limit I think is 26 or 30 and you would need to configure 2 16port
> > > Qlogic switch accordingly.
> > >
> > >
> > > Dom Q. Silverio
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 2:29 PM, John Moore <bigfish@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > > We recently had to replace our old old unity with a newer model. The
> > unit
> > > > is now self contained in an approx 3RU unit. We thought the unit would
> > > > replace our old one with the se]ame 28 seat capacity. Apparently the
> > > > dongle is only good for 20 seats. We have been told this unit can not
> > > > support more than 20 seats. Hoping this is not true and it's just a
> > matter
> > > > of a dongle update. The file versions of monitor.exe etc... are 5.1.3
> > > > something. Is this enough info to find out if it has a 20 seat max?
> > Never
> > > > spent much time with unitys so I'm asking novice questions here but no
> > > > engineering support at the plant today. TIA
> > > >
> > > > John Moore
> > > >
> > > > Barking Trout Productions
> > > >
> > > > Studio City, CA
> > > >
> > > > bigfish@...
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