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Powering off the K2 SAN

Use the following procedures to do an orderly power off of the complete K2 SAN.

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Power off K2 Media Servers

1. Stop all media access as follows:

For nearline systems, stop all FTP streams or other media operations.

For online systems, power-off all K2 clients or other iSCSI clients.

2. Shut down K2 Media Servers as follows:

For nearline systems, shut down all K2 Media Servers.

For basic (non-redundant) online or production systems, shut down the K2 Media server that
is the media file system and metadata server.

For redundant online or production systems, manage redundant server shutdown as follows:

a) From the K2 System Configuration application, in the tree view select the name of the K2

SAN, which is the top node of the storage system tree. Then click the

Server Control Panel

button.

The Server Control Panel opens.

b) Take note of which is the primary K2 Media Server and which is the backup K2 Media Server.
c) For the backup K2 Media Server, click

Stop

. This takes the server out of service.

d) Shut down the backup K2 Media Server, if it does not shut down automatically.
e) For the primary K2 Media Server, click

Stop

. This takes the server out of service.

f) Shut down the primary K2 Media Server, if it does not shut down automatically.

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