Grass Valley K2 Summit Storage Area Network v.7.1 - Manual (Page 6)

6 K2 Storage Area Network Installation and Service Manual 26 October 2009
Contents
Chapter 5 Planning and implementing a K2 SAN with SiteConfig
About developing a system description................................................................... 104
Importing a system description ............................................................................... 104
About device and host names ................................................................................. 104
Modifying a device name ........................................................................................ 105
Modifying the control network ................................................................................. 105
Modifying the FTP/streaming network..................................................................... 107
Modifying a media (iSCSI) network ......................................................................... 109
About IP configuration of network interfaces on devices ........................................ 111
Placeholder device IP configuration ................................................................... 112
Discovered device IP configuration .................................................................... 112
Modifying K2 client unassigned (unmanaged) interface ......................................... 113
Modifying K2 Media Server unassigned (unmanaged) interface ............................ 115
About SiteConfig support on K2 devices................................................................. 117
Discovering devices with SiteConfig ....................................................................... 118
Assigning discovered devices ................................................................................. 119
Modifying K2 client managed network interfaces .................................................... 120
Modifying K2 Media Server managed network interfaces ....................................... 124
Making the host name the same as the device name ............................................. 129
Pinging devices from the control point PC .............................................................. 130
About hosts files and SiteConfig ............................................................................. 130
Generating host tables for devices with SiteConfig................................................. 131
Chapter 6 Managing K2 software
Configuring K2 software deployment ...................................................................... 135
Configuring deployment groups ......................................................................... 135
Adding a software package to a deployment group ........................................... 136
Checking all currently installed software on devices .......................................... 136
About deploying software for the K2 SAN .......................................................... 137
Backup and recovery strategies .............................................................................. 139
About the recovery disk image process ............................................................. 139
Creating a recovery disk image for storing on E: ............................................... 141
Creating a recovery disk image CD set .............................................................. 142
Restoring from a system-specific recovery disk image on E: ............................. 144
Restoring from the generic recovery disk image on E:....................................... 145
Restoring from a recovery disk image CD set .................................................... 149
Activating the Windows operating system .......................................................... 151
Chapter 7 Configuring the K2 SAN
Importing a SiteConfig system description .............................................................. 153
Configuring the Level 10 K2 SAN ........................................................................... 154
Prerequisites for initial configuration .................................................................. 154
Defining a new K2 SAN ...................................................................................... 155
Configuring the server - Part 1 ........................................................................... 157
Configuring RAID ............................................................................................... 159
Creating a new file system ................................................................................. 164
Configuring the server - Part 2 ........................................................................... 166
Configuring the Level 10R K2 SAN ......................................................................... 169
Prerequisites for initial configuration .................................................................. 169
Defining a new K2 SAN ...................................................................................... 170
Configuring server A - Part 1 .............................................................................. 172
Configuring RAID ............................................................................................... 174
Creating a new file system ................................................................................. 180
Configuring server A - Part 2 .............................................................................. 182
Configuring the redundant server B ................................................................... 185
Configuring the Level 20 K2 SAN ........................................................................... 190
Prerequisites for initial configuration .................................................................. 190