Best Practices#

The following guide describes the best practices needed for the successful platform usage.

Note

Please contact your Intel® Geti™ account representative or technical support personnel if you have any questions.

Data backup#

Systems are sometimes struck with defects, either in software or hardware. Although rare, the best is to prevent the loss of any data, such as countless annotation effort, media data and more.

Therefore, the following guidelines for backup are made:

  • Never trust a single backup medium, make sure there are multiple places where the backup is stored. For example, one copy on an external drive and another in the cloud or remote machine.

  • Frequently make a backup, and validate the backup is made correctly. Create reminders to periodically check the backups and the backup configuration

  • Ideally, the backup medium is not near the Intel® Geti™ deployment. In case of water leakage, fire or voltage spikes, it’s less likely that the backup medium will be affected simultaneously with the Intel® Geti™ machine.

  • Redundant RAID configurations are not considered backups, although they reduce the likelihood of data loss upon single drive failure. Never depend on RAID alone

  • The best is to make an entire file system backup, which ensures that a machine can be restored fully to a previous state.

There is software to help with backups. For example:

Exclusive server usage#

Use the workstation where the Intel® Geti™ platform is installed and hosted only for the Intel® Geti™ platform. Do not to run any other software in parallel on that same machine.

The Intel® Geti™ platform requires a large amount of system resources and a specific configuration of network ports. Running other software on the Intel® Geti™ server that might interfere with these ports or occupy the system resources will cause issues for resource allocation within the Intel® Geti™ server, becoming unstable.

Installation#

On systems that are close to the minimum specifications, we recommend NOT installing the Grafana package when prompted by the Geti install wizard. It requires a non-trivial amount of system resource that can impact the performance of the Intel® Geti™ platform.