Grass Valley K2 Level 2 RAID Oct.10 2006 - Manual (Page 3)

September 8, 2006 Level 2 RAID Instruction Manual 3
Contents
Safety Summaries .............................................................................................. 5
Preface .................................................................................................................. 11
Chapter 1 About the K2 Level 2 RAID storage
K2 Level 2 RAID features ........................................................................................ 17
K2 Level 2 RAID features ................................................................................... 18
Capacity and redundancy ................................................................................... 18
K2 Level 2 RAID components ................................................................................. 18
Chassis ............................................................................................................... 19
Midplane ............................................................................................................. 20
Disk modules ...................................................................................................... 20
K2 Level 2 RAID Circuit board modules ............................................................. 21
K2 Level 2 RAID RAID Storage Chassis circuit board modules .................... 21
K2 Level 2 RAID Expansion Chassis circuit board modules ......................... 22
Power supplies ................................................................................................... 23
Configurations ......................................................................................................... 24
Chapter 2 K2 Level 2 RAID Installation Information
Installation requirements ......................................................................................... 25
Site requirements ............................................................................................... 25
Power............................................................................................................. 25
Cooling........................................................................................................... 25
Controller configuration requirements ................................................................ 26
Addressing requirements.................................................................................... 27
FC-AL address ID .......................................................................................... 27
Chassis address setting requirement ............................................................ 28
Expansion chassis diagnostic switch setting requirement ............................. 29
Cabling requirements ......................................................................................... 30
Binding disk modules into groups ....................................................................... 30
Installing a K2 Level 2 RAID Storage in an equipment rack.................................... 31
Unpacking the chassis........................................................................................ 31
Installing the rack mounts ................................................................................... 31
Inserting the K2 Level 2 RAID Storage chassis in the rack ................................ 33
K2 Level 2 RAID Storage power-up and initialization.............................................. 36
Connecting electrical cables ............................................................................... 36
Powering-up the K2 Level 2 RAID Storage system ............................................ 36
K2 Level 2 RAID Storage power-down.................................................................... 37
Battery Backup ........................................................................................................ 37
Chapter 3 Servicing the K2 Level 2 RAID
Maintenance procedures using Storage Utility ........................................................ 39
Monitoring K2 Level 2 RAID status using NetCentral.............................................. 39
Interpreting front panel LEDs .................................................................................. 41
Interpreting disk module LEDs ................................................................................ 42
Interpreting controller status LEDs .......................................................................... 43
Interpreting expansion adapter status LEDs ........................................................... 45
Interpreting LAN card status LEDs .......................................................................... 46
Interpreting power supply status LEDs.................................................................... 47
Removing and installing disk modules .................................................................... 47
Moving disk modules .......................................................................................... 47
Removing a disk module .................................................................................... 48
Installing disk module ......................................................................................... 49
Replacing a RAID controller or expansion adapter ................................................. 50
Removing a RAID controller or expansion adapter ............................................ 50