Grass Valley K2 Storage System Instruction Manual v.3.1 - Manual (Page 300)

300 K2 Storage System Instruction Manual September 6, 2006
Chapter 8 Description of K2 Storage Devices
K2 Media Server description
The central component of Level 2, 2R, 3, and 3R storage systems is the K2 Media
Server. It is built on a Dell PowerEdge server platform.
The following interfaces provide K2 Storage System functionality:
• Two GigE ports on the motherboard
• One dual port iSCSI interface card. Also referred to as TOE (TCP/IP Offload
Engines).
• One Fibre Channel card with two Fibre Channel ports. This is the Grass Valley
Fibre Channel card.
Refer to Chapter 10, Managing K2 software for a description of software components.
Refer to the installation chapters earlier in this manual for connection and
configuration instructions.
K2 Media Server specifications
The K2 Media Server is built on a Dell PowerEdge server platform, with
specifications as follows:
Characteristic Specification
Processor 2.8GHz/1MB Cache, Xeon, 800MHzFront Side Bus
Memory 1 GB
Hard Drives 36GB RAID 1
Operating System Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003, Standard Edition
Fibre Channel Adapter GVG SCSI
iSCSI Adapter Qlogic SANblade 1-Gbps iSCSI dual-TOE PCI-X Host Bus
Adapter
Removable Media Drives 1.44MB Floppy Drive
24X IDE CD-RW/DVD ROM Drive
Communications Dual Embedded Intel Gigabit1 82541 Server Adapter on
motherboard
Graphics ATI Radeon with 16MB SDRAM
Form Factor 2U
3
2
1
Keyboard/Mouse
USB ports (2)
GigE 2
GigE 1
Serial connector
Video connector
iSCSI
Fibre Channel
iSCSI
Power supply 2
Power supply 1