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Nearline 10 description – Grass Valley K2 Storage System Instruction Manual v.3.3 User Manual

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K2 Storage System Instruction Manual

June 25, 2009

Chapter 8 Installing the Nearline 10 Storage System

Nearline 10 description

Nearline 10 (non-redundant)

Nearline 10 Redundant

The K2 Nearline 10 (NL10) and Nearline 10 Redundant (NL10R) storage systems
were initially released with K2 system software version 3.2 in September 2007.

This section describes both the Nearline 10 non-redundant (NL10) and the Nearline
10 redundant (NL10R) K2 Storage System. This is a 4 Gb/s Nearline K2 Storage
System. The 4 Gb/s bandwidth available on this system is a feature that distinguishes
it from the previous Nearline K2 Storage System, which has a 2 Gb/s bandwidth.

The purpose of the Nearline storage system is to provide a large pool of storage to
which files can be saved. The Nearline system is considered an “offline” system,
which means the system stores files only, such GXF files or MXF files, with no ability
to record or play those files directly on the system. This is because the Nearline

Control

RAID Chassis

(SATA drives)

RAID Expansion Chassis

(SATA drives)

NH K2 Media
Server

Gigabit Ethernet
Switch

Fibre Channel
connection

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FTP to/from online system

ISLs

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Control

RAID Chassis

(SAS drives)

RAID Expansion Chassis

(SATA drives)

NH K2 Media
Servers

Gigabit Ethernet
Switches

Fibre Channel
connections

Control

FTP

Control

FTP

Control point PC

!

K2

S ATA S T O R A G E

!

K2

S ATA S T O R A G E

!

K2

S ATA S T O R A G E

!

K2

S ATA S T O R A G E

K2

M E D I A S E R V E R

K2

M E D I A S E R V E R

Control

FTP to/from online system

ISLs

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