1. Virtual Environments and Level III Redundancy A modern, green and fault tolerant approach to radio automation system design Patrick J. Campion Director of Product Development ENCO Systems, Inc.

2. A simplified view of 20 years of radio automation system integration.

3. Starting with a 1:1 PC:Studio design based on the following configuration

4. ONE STUDIO ONE BOX Again, in this model the setup is 1:1 PC:Studio.

5. 4U Rackmount Case Power Supply Motherboard o NIC o Video RAM Processor HDD(s) DVD ROM PCIe RAID PCIe Sound PCI GPI Cooling Fans

6. 4U Rackmount Case Power Supply Motherboard o NIC o Video RAM Processor HDD(s) DVD ROM PCIe RAID PCIe Sound PCI GPI Cooling Fans Take that big list of components and fit it into the box

7. TWO STUDIOS

8. TWO BOXES

9. THREE STUDIOS

10. THREE BOXES

11. FOUR STUDIOS

12. FOUR BOXES

13. FIVE STUDIOS

14. FM ONAIR AM ONAIR PROD1 PROD2 VT STUDIO Conveniently named for demo purposes

16. FM ONAIR AM ONAIR PROD1 PROD2 VT STUDIO IT RACK ROOM Move everything to a rack room

17. FM ONAIR AM ONAIR PROD1 PROD2 VT STUDIO IT RACK ROOM SERVER ONE SERVER TWO SWITCH Add servers and a switch

18. FM ONAIR AM ONAIR PROD1 PROD2 VT STUDIO IT RACK ROOM SERVER ONE SERVER TWO SWITCH POWER Start connecting cables

19. FM ONAIR AM ONAIR PROD1 PROD2 VT STUDIO IT RACK ROOM SERVER ONE SERVER TWO SWITCH NETWORK

20. FM ONAIR AM ONAIR PROD1 PROD2 VT STUDIO IT RACK ROOM SERVER ONE SERVER TWO SWITCH KVM

21. FM ONAIR AM ONAIR PROD1 PROD2 VT STUDIO IT RACK ROOM SERVER ONE SERVER TWO SWITCH

22. FM ONAIR AM ONAIR PROD1 PROD2 VT STUDIO IT RACK ROOM SERVER ONE SERVER TWO SWITCH STUDIOS FM ONAIR AM ONAIR PROD1 PROD2 VT STUDIO

23. FM ONAIR AM ONAIR PROD1 PROD2 VT STUDIO IT RACK ROOM SERVER ONE SERVER TWO SWITCH STUDIOS FM ONAIR AM ONAIR PROD1 PROD2 VT STUDIO KVM

24. FM ONAIR AM ONAIR PROD1 PROD2 VT STUDIO IT RACK ROOM SERVER ONE SERVER TWO SWITCH STUDIOS FM ONAIR AM ONAIR PROD1 PROD2 VT STUDIO AUDIO

25. FM ONAIR AM ONAIR PROD1 PROD2 VT STUDIO IT RACK ROOM SERVER ONE SERVER TWO SWITCH STUDIOS FM ONAIR AM ONAIR PROD1 PROD2 VT STUDIO GPI

26. FM ONAIR AM ONAIR PROD1 PROD2 VT STUDIO IT RACK ROOM SERVER ONE SERVER TWO SWITCH STUDIOS FM ONAIR AM ONAIR PROD1 PROD2 VT STUDIO CROSS CONNECTS

28. IT RACK ROOM SERVER SWITCH STUDIOS FM ONAIR AM ONAIR PROD1 PROD2 VT STUDIO

29. FM ONAIR AM ONAIR PROD1 PROD2 VT STUDIO IT RACK ROOM SERVER ONE SERVER TWO SWITCH STUDIOS FM ONAIR AM ONAIR PROD1 PROD2 VT STUDIO

30. IT RACK ROOM SERVER SWITCH STUDIOS FM ONAIR AM ONAIR PROD1 PROD2 VT STUDIO

32. ONE SITE ONE BOX

33. LOTS OF PROCESSING POWER LOTS OF RAM HIGH PERFORMANCE DRIVES HIGH PERFORMANCE RAID CONTROLLER EIGHT OR MORE 1000TX NIC SERVER CLASS HARDWARE

34. Starting with a six drive frame – no OS or architecture

35. RAID1 Build one RAID1

36. RAID1 RAID5 And one RAID5 with the remaining four drives

37. RAID5 SERVER VM1 VM2 VM3 VM4 VM5 On the RAID1 build our Virtualized Server OS and five Virtual Machines

38. RAID5 SERVER FM ONAIR AM ONAIR PROD1 PROD2 VT STUDIO

39. STORAGE VOLUME (VIRTUAL SHARE) SERVER FM ONAIR AM ONAIR PROD1 PROD2 VT STUDIO Then create a virtual share on the RAID5 for storage purposes

40. VIRTUAL MACHINE OPERATING SYSTEM IP AUDIO DRIVER AUTOMATION SOFTWARE

42. ONE SITE ONE BOX This model’s biggest flaw is a lack of true redundancy

43. IT RACK ROOM SERVER SWITCH STUDIOS FM ONAIR AM ONAIR PROD1 PROD2 VT STUDIO

44. ONE SITE TWO BOXES Solved by going to a model with two duplicate boxes

45. IT RACK ROOM SERVER1 SWITCH STUDIOS FM ONAIR AM ONAIR PROD1 PROD2 VT STUDIO SERVER2

46. RAID5 SERVER VM1 RAID5 SERVER Redundancy Software 3000TX pipe between the two boxes and redundancy software added

47. STORAGE VOLUME (VIRTUAL SHARE) SERVER FM ONAIR AM ONAIR PROD1 PROD2 VT STUDIO STORAGE VOLUME (VIRTUAL SHARE) SERVER FM ONAIR AM ONAIR PROD1 PROD2 VT STUDIO Create two duplicate, synchronous environments.

49. SMALLER FOOTPRINT LESS POWER DRAW LESS COOLING DEMAND EASIER INTEGRATION HIGHER QUALITY MATERIAL EASIER MAINTENANCE MORE SCALABILITY BETTER FAULT TOLERANCE KVM SHARING BUILT IN

50. Virtual Environments and Level III Redundancy A modern, green and fault tolerant approach to radio automation system design Patrick J. Campion Director of Product Development ENCO Systems, Inc. patrick@enco.com

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