The VisionHub system requires high-speed access to a file system folder. This folder will be the root for all VisionHub related data including all managed images, pipelines, and workflow results. All VisionHub components will directly use this directory when image data is read (during exploration in the viewer or via analysis) or added (results from analysis, uploads via web frontend).

VisionHub supports UNC paths (with user/pass) to mount a file system. As stated above, multiple dedicated servers can be used for specific tasks such as management server, analysis workers or 3D rendering. If multiple VisionHub servers are deployed, one could share the central folder to these other servers, or all servers can use a central network file system.

VisionHub will NEVER alter image data that is stored and expects that no external processes are allowed to alter data within this folder. However, images might have a read lock when VisionHub components are working on a specific file.

VisionHub can automatically watch and reflect changes in the image storage file system. For large volume acquisitions and to avoid copying of large image data, devices or users should directly write to this directory. The file system permission handling and the acquisition workflow ensures that no data is modified or deleted.