ES120 EditShare EFS Shared Storage Fundamentals Overview
ES120 is the nuts-and-bolts primer for anyone who has to rack, provision, and keep an EditShare EFS array working at line rate in an on-prem post-production or other media facility. Students leave knowing how to carve out media volumes, set ACLs, map workstations, and keep latency low – before a single asset ever touches Flow or the cloud.
Class Details
Objectives
- Identify EFS node roles, RAID layouts, metadata servers, and client driver architecture
- Cable, IP-plan, and bond NICs for 1/10/25/100 GbE performance; validate with esbench & iPerf
- Create storage pools, media spaces, and project shares with quota & bandwidth ceilings
- Tune macOS, Windows, and Linux clients (jumbo frames, MTU, SMB/NFS, iSCSI) for optimal I/O
- Monitor system health via EFS Web UI & CLI: metadata latency, node temperature, SMART, ZFS ARC
- Perform firmware / OS upgrades, snapshot schedules, and node-failover drills
- Generate & interpret diagnostic bundles for EditShare Support escalation
- Implement baseline security: VLAN segregation, STIG hardening, immutable backups
- Audit & optimize system performance
- Document best-practice power sequencing, UPS-triggered shutdowns, and cold-spare strategy
Audience
- Post-Production Engineers and Support Staff
- Media Managers and Archivists
- Broadcast Engineers
- IT Professionals supporting editorial systems
- Technical Directors overseeing collaborative workflows
- Creative teams using Flow for remote media access
