Storage profiles and path mapping

Use storage profiles to model the file systems on your workstation and worker hosts. Each storage profile describes the operating system and file system layout of one of your system configurations. This topic describes how to use storage profiles to model the file system configurations of your hosts so Deadline Cloud can generate path mapping rules for your jobs, and how those path mapping rules are generated from your storage profiles.

When you submit a job to Deadline Cloud you can provide an optional storage profile ID for the job. This storage profile describes the submitting workstation's file system. It describes the original file system configuration that the file paths in the job template use.

You can also associate a storage profile with a customer-managed fleet. The storage profile describes the file system configuration of all worker hosts in the fleet. If you have workers with different file system configuration, those workers must be assigned to a different fleet in your farm. Storage profiles are not supported in service-managed fleets.

Path mapping rules describe how paths should be remapped from how they are specified in the job to the path's actual location on a worker host. Deadline Cloud compares the file system configuration described in a job's storage profile with the storage profile of the fleet that is running the job to derive these path mapping rules.