Grass Valley K2 Summit Storage Area Network v.7.1 - Manual (Page 34)

34 K2 Storage Area Network Installation and Service Manual 26 October 2009
Chapter 1 Product Description
Overview Description
The K2 Storage Area Network is Grass Valley’s shared storage solution that gives
multiple clients access to a common pool of media. In the iSCSI SAN, clients access
the shared media storage via a Gigabit Ethernet network and a Fibre Channel
connection. Data is communicated using the Small Computer System Interface
(SCSI) data transfer interface and the Internet SCSI (iSCSI) protocol.
A custom-designed Fibre Channel SAN is also available in which clients access
RAID storage via a Fibre Channel network, and the K2 Media Server connects via
Ethernet for control functions only.
Refer to the K2 System Guide for diagrams and explanations of the media file system
and the media database.
Key features
The key features of the iSCSI K2 SAN are as follows:
• iSCSI storage access protocol
• Gigabit Ethernet connectivity
• RAID 5 and RAID 6 storage
• FTP transfers
iSCSI Clients
K2 Media Server
iSCSI over
Gigabit
Ethernet
SCSI over
Fibre Channel
RAID
Storage
iSCSI to SCSI
Bridge