Hardware Network Design

Disguise servers typically follow the standard of a couple of 1Gb/10Gb network ports consisting largely of general Cat 5e/Cat 6e ports and a higher bandwidth fibre 25Gb/100Gb SFP set of ports in newer systems.

This configuration typically provides 2 lower bandwidth network ports and 2 higher bandwidth network ports, ensuring a balanced and efficient network setup.

Inside our operating systems, this is usually labelled as:

• A - D3NET (typically found on a 1Gb port)
• B - ARTNET (typically found on a 1Gb port)
• C - MEDIANET (typically found on a 10/25/100Gb port)
• D - MGMT (typically found on a 1Gb port or internal use)

Some servers have:

• E 25/100Gb (Typically allocated for Content / RenderStream)
• F 25/100Gb (Typically allocated for Content / RenderStream)

This means most servers have 4 Ports available, with some having 6 ports

Our modern systems currently follow higher bandwidth NIC Design and no longer have default IP names.

• 10Gb - 1
• 10Gb - 2
• 100Gb -3
• 100Gb - 4

This should encapsulate most simple show scenarios, providing high speed backbones for media content, and general access for both Disguise d3Net and general art-net uses.

Some users additionally choose to deploy ‘utility’ computers in racks, which host things like network management pages and remote management interfaces, this reduces traffic on the core d3 network where possible.

Server Storage and Ports

The following tables show port and storage options by server type.

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VX1 / VX2 / VX4

Option	Storage	Ports
1GB	✓	1 User 1 SMC
10GB	✓	2
25GB	✓	2

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GX 3 / VX 2+ / VX 3 VX 4+

Option	Storage	Ports
1GB	✓	1 User 1 SMC
10GB	✓	2
100GB	✓	2

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EX 2C / EX 3+ / RX III

Option	Storage	Ports
10GB	✓	2
100GB	✓	2
SMC	✓	1

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GX 1 / GX 2 / GX 2C

Option	Storage	Ports
1GB	✓	2
10GB	✓	2

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Solo (Base)

Option	Storage	Ports
1GB	✓	4

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RX / RX II

Option	Storage	Ports
10GB	✓	2
1GB	✓	2
25GB	✓	2

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