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Grass Valley K2 Storage System Instruction Manual v.3.2 Sep.24 2007 User Manual

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K2 Storage System Instruction Manual

September 7, 2007

Chapter 10 Installing the Level 20R Storage System

b. Leave

Full Bind

unchecked. Refer to

“About full/background bind” on page 748

.

c. In the

Bind Type

drop down box, select

RAID 1

.

d. In the Available Disks box, select two contiguous disks at the top of the list.

These should be the first two disks in the primary RAID chassis. (TIP: Use
‘shift-click’ or ‘control-click’ to select disks.) This creates a RAID 1 RANK for
metadata storage.

e. Click the add (arrow) button to add disks to the Selected Disks list.

NOTE: As an aid in identifying a disk module’s physical location, select it in the
Selected Disks list, then click

Identify Disks.

This causes the disk drive light to flash.

f. Click

OK

to close the Bind dialog box and begin the binding process. The

Progress Report dialog box opens, showing the status of the binding process.

g. Close the Progress Report and repeat the previous steps, selecting two more

contiguous disks to create another RAID 1 RANK for journal storage. These
should be the next two disks in the primary RAID chassis.

h. Make the fifth disk in the primary RAID chassis a Hot Spare. In the

Bind Type

drop down box, select

Hot Spare

.

i. In the Available Disks box, select the fifth disk in the primary RAID chassis.

j. Click the add (arrow) button to add the disk to the Selected Disks list.

k. Click

OK

to close the dialog box and begin the binding process.

3. To bind unbound disks for media storage, do the following:

a. Right-click the

Unbound

node for a controller, then select

Bind

in the context

menu. (If the RAID chassis has two controllers, both controllers are represented
by the single “Controller” node)