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Creating a new file system - nearline k2 san – Grass Valley K2 Summit Storage Area Network Installation User Manual

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9. 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.

10. 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 a nearline system, the disks in the primary RAID chassis and in optional Expansion chassis
should be bound as RAID 6 RANKs, with twelve disks to a RANK.

11. Click

Close

in Progress Report window.

12. 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 Links

Identifying disks

on page 317

About full/background bind

on page 321

Binding Hot Spare drives

on page 323

Creating a new file system - Nearline 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

Power on

Disks bound

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