Grass Valley K2 Storage System Instruction Manual v.3.2 Sep.24 2007 - Manual (Page 290)

290 K2 Storage System Instruction Manual September 7, 2007
Chapter 7 Installing the Level 10 Storage System
Level 10 system description
The Level 10 (L10) storage system has one Gigabit Ethernet switch, one Level 10 K2
Media Server, and one L10 RAID chassis. Up to four RAID Expansion chassis are
optional for increased storage capacity.
K2 Media Clients and other iSCSI clients, such as Aurora Edits, are connected to the
GigE switch. Each K2 Media Client has one GigE connection for media (iSCSI) and
one GigE connection for control. The GigE switch is configured with V-LANs to keep
the control/FTP traffic and the media (iSCSI) traffic separate.
The Level 10 K2 Media Server has one GigE connection for media (iSCSI), one GigE
connection for control, one GigE connection for FTP, and one Fibre Channel
connection to the RAID storage. The server hosts an iSCSI interface card for the GigE
media connection and a Fibre Channel card for the RAID storage connection. The
iSCSI interface card provides a bridge between GigE iSCSI and Fibre Channel SCSI.
The server also hosts software components that allow it to function in various roles,
including media file system manager, media database server, and FTP server. The
Level 10 K2 Media Server has one power supply (non-redundant).
The L10 RAID chassis is connected via a single Fibre Channel connection to the K2
Media Server. It is also connected to the GigE control network, which is required for
SNMP (NetCentral) monitoring.
The K2 configuration control point PC is connected to the GigE control network. The
K2 System Configuration application runs on this PC for configuring the storage
system.
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RAID Expansion
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K2 Media
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K2 Media Clients
Gigabit Ethernet Switch
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