Grass Valley K2 Storage System Instruction Manual v.3.2 Sep.24 2007 - Manual (Page 3)

September 7, 2007 K2 Storage System Instruction Manual 3
Contents
Safety Summaries .............................................................................................. 13
Finding Information ........................................................................................... 19
Grass Valley Product Support ................................................................................. 25
Chapter 1 Product Description
Overview Description .............................................................................................. 28
Key features ............................................................................................................ 28
Chapter 2 Installing the Level 2 Storage System
Level 2 system description ...................................................................................... 32
Preparing Level 2 devices ....................................................................................... 33
Setting up the Control Point PC.......................................................................... 33
Setting up the Level 2 GigE switch ..................................................................... 34
Setting up the K2 Media Server.......................................................................... 44
Setting up the L2 RAID chassis .......................................................................... 45
Preparing K2 Storage System clients ................................................................. 49
K2 configuration and NetCentral ............................................................................ 50
Networking for Level 2............................................................................................. 51
Networking requirements.................................................................................... 51
Networking tips ................................................................................................... 52
Setting up host tables ......................................................................................... 53
Testing the control network ................................................................................ 54
Configuring the Level 2 storage system .................................................................. 55
Prerequisites for initial configuration................................................................... 55
Defining a new K2 Storage System .................................................................... 56
Configuring the server - Part 1 ........................................................................... 58
Configuring RAID................................................................................................ 60
Creating a new file system ................................................................................. 65
Configuring the server - Part 2 ........................................................................... 66
Adding K2 Storage System clients .......................................................................... 69
Basic operations for Level 2 storage ....................................................................... 69
Level 2 system power-off procedure .................................................................. 69
Level 2 system power-on procedure .................................................................. 71
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Chapter 3 Installing the Level 2R Storage System
Level 2R system description ................................................................................... 74
Preparing Level 2R devices .................................................................................... 75
Setting up the Control Point PC.......................................................................... 75
Setting up the Level 2R redundant GigE switches ............................................. 76
Setting up the K2 Media Server.......................................................................... 87
Setting up the L2 RAID chassis .......................................................................... 88
Preparing K2 Storage System clients ................................................................. 92
K2 configuration and NetCentral ............................................................................ 93
Networking for Level 2R .......................................................................................... 95
Networking requirements.................................................................................... 95
Networking tips ................................................................................................... 96
Setting up host tables ......................................................................................... 97
Testing the control network ................................................................................ 98
Configuring the Level 2R storage system ............................................................... 100
Prerequisites for initial configuration................................................................... 100
Defining a new K2 Storage System .................................................................... 101
Configuring the server - Part 1 ........................................................................... 103
Configuring RAID................................................................................................ 105