Grass Valley K2 Storage System Instruction Manual v.3.3 - Manual (Page 518)

518 K2 Storage System Instruction Manual June 25, 2009
Chapter 14 Administering and maintaining the K2 Storage System
• You must access Storage Utility (via the K2 System Configuration application
login) with permissions equivalent to K2 administrator or higher.
• When you access Storage Utility, the K2 Storage System must be offline.
• All iSCSI clients and K2 Media Clients in the K2 Storage System must be shut
down.
NOTE: You lose all media with this procedure.
To make a new media file system, do the following:
1. In Storage Utility, click Tools | Make New File System .
The Settings dialog box opens.
2. Configure the Settings dialog box as follows:
• For Real Time Input Output (RTIOs), enter the number specified for the design
of your K2 Storage System. Contact your Grass Valley representative if you do
not know this number.
• For Windows Security on a K2 Storage System with only K2 Media Clients,
leave this setting unchecked.
• For Windows Security on a K2 Storage System with Aurora Edits, refer to the
Aurora Edit Installation and Configuration Guide.
Click OK . The Configuration File dialog box opens.
3. On the Configuration File dialog box, you can view media file system settings, but
do not attempt to change them. Click Accept .
A “Making new file system. Please wait” message box displays progress.
4. When a message “Succeeded to make the new file system…” appears, click OK .
5. Restart the K2 Media Server.
6. You now have a blank (empty) file system. However, the media database still
contains references to media files which are no longer present in the file system.
To clear the media database do the following:
a. In the K2 System Configuration application tree view, open the node for the K2