Grass Valley K2 Level 3 RAID Dec.09 2005 - Manual (Page 3)

November 23, 2005 Level 3 RAID Instruction Manual 3
Contents
Safety Summaries .............................................................................................. 5
Preface .................................................................................................................. 11
About this manual.................................................................................................... 11
Using the K2 Documentation Set ....................................................................... 11
K2 Storage System Release Notes ............................................................... 12
K2 Media Client Quick Start Guides .............................................................. 12
Documentation CD-ROM ............................................................................... 12
How this manual is organized............................................................................. 12
Terminology used in this manual ........................................................................ 13
Getting more information ......................................................................................... 13
On-line Help Systems ......................................................................................... 13
Thomson Grass Valley Web Site........................................................................ 13
Chapter 1 About the K2 Level 3 RAID storage
Level 3 RAID features ............................................................................................. 15
K2 Level 3 features............................................................................................. 16
Capacity and redundancy ................................................................................... 16
Level 3 RAID components....................................................................................... 17
Chassis ............................................................................................................... 18
Midplane ............................................................................................................. 19
Disk modules ...................................................................................................... 19
Level 3 RAID Circuit board modules .................................................................. 20
Level 3 RAID Storage Chassis circuit board modules ................................... 20
K2 Level 3 RAID Expansion Chassis circuit board modules ......................... 21
Power supplies ................................................................................................... 22
Configurations ......................................................................................................... 23
Chapter 2 Level 3 RAID Installation Information
Installation requirements ......................................................................................... 25
Site requirements ............................................................................................... 25
Power............................................................................................................. 25
Cooling........................................................................................................... 25
Addressing requirements.................................................................................... 26
Chassis address setting requirement ............................................................ 26
Cabling requirements ......................................................................................... 26
Binding disk modules into groups ....................................................................... 27
Installing a K2 Level 3 RAID Storage in an equipment rack.................................... 28
Unpacking the chassis........................................................................................ 28
Installing the rack mounts ................................................................................... 28
Inserting the K2 Level 3 RAID Storage chassis in the rack ................................ 30
K2 Level 3 RAID Storage power-up and initialization.............................................. 33
Connecting electrical cables ............................................................................... 33
Powering-up the K2 Level 3 RAID Storage system ............................................ 33
K2 Level 3 RAID Storage power-down.................................................................... 34
Battery Backup ........................................................................................................ 34
Chapter 3 Servicing the Level 3 RAID
Maintenance procedures using Grass Valley Storage Utility .................................. 35
Monitoring K2 Level 3 External RAID status using NetCentral ............................... 35
Interpreting front panel LEDs.............................................................................. 36
Primary RAID chassis ................................................................................... 37
Expansion chassis ........................................................................................ 37
Interpreting disk module LEDs ................................................................................ 38
Interpreting controller status LEDs .......................................................................... 39