Bind rank – Grass Valley K2 Summit Storage Area Network v.7.1 User Manual
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Bind RANK
configuration, as it does not require the long wait time required for full bind. You
can have RAID disks binding while you move on to other tasks that require RAID
media access.
With either type of binding process, you should bind multiple RANKs
simultaneously, to reduce the overall time required to bind disks.
Bind RANK
Binding disk modules formats them into a logical units called RANKs. The disks that
make up a RANK are accessed as a contiguous disk space. Disk modules must be
bound before they can be part of the video storage file system.
For simplicity, the Storage Utility only allows binding the first available (at the top of
the Available Disks list) contiguous disk modules into RANKs. After binding, disk
modules become slot specific and cannot be moved to other disk module slots.
Refer to “About RANKs and LUNs in Storage Utility” in
The requirements for this procedure are as follows:
• You must access Storage Utility (via the K2 System Configuration application
login) with permissions equivalent to K2 administrator or higher.
• When you access Storage Utility, the K2 SAN must be offline.
• All iSCSI clients and K2 clients in the K2 SAN must be shut down.
To bind a RANK, do the following:
1. In the tree view, right-click the
Unbound
node and select
Bind
. (Peer controllers
that share the same set of disks are automatically selected as a pair.)