Project Serve Assembly Guide
Site Installation: Connecting Project Serve to the Network
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the Public port. For details about performing the initial setup of the appliance, refer
to “Project Serve Administration Guide“.
You must connect the appliance to network on which client computers and network
shares are. There are three basic deployment configurations to choose from when
deploying the appliance.
Office Network Deployment
This configuration allows you to re-use your existing office network in order to
provide communication between Project Serve, the NAS appliance and client
computers. Aside from re-using your existing infrastructure and providing Internet
access to the appliance, with this deployment configuration you let network
computers, which don’t run the Project Serve client driver to browse projects and
preview proxy media, although they cannot create or mount projects.
Note:
If your office network setup permits it, physically remote computers will also
be able to preview project contents over the Internet.
A possible drawback of this deployment is that all traffic (including data from client
computers to and from the project depot) goes through the same network.
To deploy your Project Serve appliance in your existing office network, you should
simply connect the appliance to the Ethernet switch through the available 1GbE port.
Note:
If your office network uses 10GbE switch, make sure that it supports 1GbE
connection or use the 10GbE port of the appliance, if your configuration includes one.
Private Network Configuration
With this configuration Project Serve, the client computers and the NAS appliance are
on an isolated network interconnected through an Ethernet switch. The major benefit
of this deployment is that all available bandwidth is used solely for data traffic
between the client computers and the network shares. A drawback is that the Project
Serve appliance doesn’t have access to the office network and/or the Internet, which
prevents computers outside the network to preview projects and their contents, and
also complicates the process of uploading firmware updates on the Project Serve
appliance.
To deploy Project Serve in a private network, connect it to the Ethernet switch on
which the NAS appliance and client computers are, using the available 1GbE or 10GbE
port of the appliance.
