Software Upgrade
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To upgrade Avid ISIS 7500 | 7000 v2.1.1 and later, you need to upgrade the clients before you
upgrade the infrastructure. This is necessary because ISIS client software before v2.1.1 is not
supported in the ISIS v2.1.1 and later infrastructure. Although, v2.1.x client software is
supported in v1.4 and later infrastructures. Once the clients have been upgraded, you can
upgrade Avid ISIS infrastructure.
The clients are defined as follows:
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Avid editing applications
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Interplay Assist and Instinct
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Interplay Access
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Avid Approved Applications Initiative such as Pro Tools and Final Cut Pro
The infrastructure is defined as follows:
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System Director — System Director software and upgrade Storage Blades (ISBs) and
Switch Blades (ISS/IXSs) in the Avid ISIS engines to the v2.1.1 firmware
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Interplay servers — Interplay Engine, Interplay Media Indexer, Interplay Transfer, and
CaptureManager
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Capture devices — AirSpeed, AirSpeed Multi Stream, and Avid Interplay Low-Res Encoder
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If updating from an ISIS v1.x infrastructure you must do a full redistribution on your workspace
after you have updated the infrastructure to v2.x. A full redistribution is needed to take
advantage of the performance improvements. The redistribution is required even if the system
has zero (0) configuration changes listed.
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Avid ISIS v2.1.1 SR2500 64-bit System Directors ship with an
SD_X64_PIS21_MBS5000XALR_V05_DVD or later image on the internal RAID drives. The
image version number can be found in the
c:\IMAGE.TXT
file on the System Director root
directory. If upgrading your 64-bit System Director from Avid ISIS v2.0.1 or earlier Avid
recommends you reimage the System Directors to reduce the number if updates required in this
release. For instructions on how to reimage the System Director, see the
Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Operating System” on page 196
If you are upgrading from Avid ISIS v2.0.1 or earlier, Avid suggests you consider reimaging the
64-bit System Director (see
“Reinstalling the Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Operating
). Several configuration changes and driver versions have been updated in
the 64-bit System Director and you might find it easier than following the referenced procedures
listed in the following procedure. If you do decide to reimage, perform a failover, then reimage
the Standby System Director first.
