2014-04-20, 22:59
First off let me say that XBMC is the most awesome media solution I have experienced. I have been a user since Eden and all I can say is "Way to go developers!"
I am active duty military and I am trying to work up a proposal for my command. I need to have a draft design including a network map, sorce of supply, and most importantly cost. I am pretty good with home networking, however this idea is over my level of network design. I would like to have a centralized server with lots of storage, and a way to get that media to the hosts reliably and quickly. I plan to use some sort of database server to integrate all of the hosts for watched status. I would like to serve full quality blu-ray movies to a total of 25+ hosts.
The physical layout isn't that complicated. I have three decks to which i would like to distribute the media.
first deck i need 4 hosts with expansion to 10 hosts
second deck I need 5 hosts with expansion to 11 hosts
third deck i need 3 hosts with expansion to 5
The server would live on a deck all by it's self.
For you network engineers out there how would you create this topology?
Pointers? Fiber backbone?
For you hardware engineers what would you use for a host?
must be low maintenance and high reliablility
For you software engineers what os would you use?
would like to make an image on DVD for ease of deployability, also high reliability
For the general gurus, there will be no internet connection can XBMC be run this way? (my installations do not work without internet, xbmc freezes and must be terminated with task manager)
I hope this wasn't too long winded but as I said before I am pretty good at this stuff but I have never built a system on this level of complexity before.
Thanks in advance
I am active duty military and I am trying to work up a proposal for my command. I need to have a draft design including a network map, sorce of supply, and most importantly cost. I am pretty good with home networking, however this idea is over my level of network design. I would like to have a centralized server with lots of storage, and a way to get that media to the hosts reliably and quickly. I plan to use some sort of database server to integrate all of the hosts for watched status. I would like to serve full quality blu-ray movies to a total of 25+ hosts.
The physical layout isn't that complicated. I have three decks to which i would like to distribute the media.
first deck i need 4 hosts with expansion to 10 hosts
second deck I need 5 hosts with expansion to 11 hosts
third deck i need 3 hosts with expansion to 5
The server would live on a deck all by it's self.
For you network engineers out there how would you create this topology?
Pointers? Fiber backbone?
For you hardware engineers what would you use for a host?
must be low maintenance and high reliablility
For you software engineers what os would you use?
would like to make an image on DVD for ease of deployability, also high reliability
For the general gurus, there will be no internet connection can XBMC be run this way? (my installations do not work without internet, xbmc freezes and must be terminated with task manager)
I hope this wasn't too long winded but as I said before I am pretty good at this stuff but I have never built a system on this level of complexity before.
Thanks in advance