Grass Valley K2 Storage System Instruction Manual v.3.2 Aug.01 2007 User Manual
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K2 Storage System Instruction Manual
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K2 Level 3 RAID storage description
The Switch based disk enclosures permits high-speed access to the disk drives being
used.
The L3 RAID chassis contains fifteen half-height 3.5" Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop
(FC-AL) disk drives. The chassis also supports one or two hardware RAID
Controllers in one 3U high rack-mountable chassis.
The L3 RAID Expansion Chassis provides additional storage capacity. The
Expansion Chassis has one or two Expansion Adapters installed. Up to seven L3
RAID Expansion Chassis can be connected to a single L3 RAID chassis comprising
a single disk-array storage system with up to 120 drives.
NOTE: Grass Valley does not support mixing disk drives of differing capacities in
a file system stripe group.
Refer to the installation chapters earlier in this manual for connection and
configuration instructions.
The K2 Level 3 RAID chassis is a NEC S1400 model. For specifications and
servicing information on the L3 RAID storage system, refer to the K2 Level 3 RAID
Storage Instruction Manual.