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10. 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.

11. Close the Progress Report and repeat these steps for other unbound disks.

If specified by your system design, you can bind some disks as Hot Spares.

When you are done, if you did not bind any extra Hot Spares, you should have the following
results:

For redundant storage, on the primary RAID chassis you should have two RAID 1 RANKs of
two disks each, one Hot Spare Disk, and one RAID 5 or RAID 6 RANK of six disks. For each
optional Expansion chassis, you would have an additional one or two RAID 5 or RAID 6 RANKs
of six disks each.

12. Click

Close

in Progress Report window.

13. Restart the K2 Media Server.

NOTE: Make sure start up processes on the K2 Media Server are complete before proceeding.

Next, create a new file system.

Related Topics

Identifying disks

on page 321

About full/background bind

on page 325

Binding Hot Spare drives

on page 327

Creating a new file system - Redundant K2 SAN

Prerequisites for the K2 RAID chassis are as follows:

Fibre Channel cable(s) connected

Ethernet cable(s) connected

Power on

Disks bound

Prerequisites for the optional K2 RAID Expansion chassis are as follows:

Fibre channel cable(s) connected

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