Migrating from Avid ISIS to Avid NEXIS

December 2016
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 Avid ISIS to Avid NEXIS Migration
§ Why upgrade to Avid NEXIS? Avid NEXIS

• Higher Performance Avid ISIS

• Higher Capacity
• Increased Media Protection
• Lower cost
• Increased Reliability
- Replacing Aging Disk Drives
• Redundant Ethernet networking
Ethernet

§ How can I move my media?

• Avid Data Migration Utility
- Simple, desktop tool to copy media to Avid NEXIS
Windows Workstation
Data Migration
Utility

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 Migrating from ISIS to Avid NEXIS
§ Avid NEXIS client is a common
Avid Data Migration Utility
client, it can connect to ISIS
v4.7.5 and higher
§ The ISIS Data Migration Utility
can be used to move media from Avid-ISIS-existing Avid-NEXIS-new

ISIS 5500, 2500 or 7500 to any

Avid NEXIS
• Avid Data Migration Utility is
included in ISIS software kit
• Workspaces must be manually
created on Avid NEXIS
• Currently Windows only

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 Data Migration Utility

1) Select your ISIS Storage Group

4) Click the ‘START’ icon

3) Select your Avid NEXIS

2) Select your ISIS Workspace Destination Storage Group

Progress Monitor

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