K2 configuration and netcentral – Grass Valley K2 Storage System Instruction Manual v.3.2 Nov.18 2008 User Manual

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July 15, 2008

Chapter 7 Installing the Level 30R Storage System

• For a redundant K2 Storage System, K2 Media Clients have one connection to the

A media (iSCSI) network and one connection to the B media (iSCSI) network.
Other iSCSI clients with just one media port connect to either the A or the B
network.

Additional steps that are required for Aurora Edits include the following:

• Implement Aurora Edit security features.

• Install SNFS software and K2 software.

For more information, refer to the Aurora Edit Installation and Configuration Guide.

Additional steps that are required for K2 Media Clients include the following:

• You must install Multi-path I/O software if the K2 Media Client connects to the K2

Storage System with a redundant Ethernet (iSCSI) fabric. For example, the
following K2 Storage Systems have a redundant Ethernet fabric:

• Level 2R

• Level 3R

• Level 10R

• Level 20R

• Level 30R

For more information refer to the K2 Media Client System Guide.

K2 configuration and NetCentral

Before you begin using the K2 System Configuration application to configure the
storage system, you should set up the NetCentral system according to the following
requirements:

NetCentral installed

— NetCentral server software must be installed on a

NetCentral server PC. This can be the K2 configuration Control Point PC or
another PC that has network communication with the K2 Storage System control
network.

Device providers installed

— A device provider must be installed on the NetCentral

server PC for each type of device in the K2 Storage System. For a Level 30R
storage system, the following device providers must be installed:

• Control point PC device provider — This is the Windows monitoring device

provider.

• K2 Media Server device provider

• HP Gigabit Switch device provider or Cisco Gigabit Switch device provider

• K2 Media Client device provider, if any K2 Media Clients are accessing the

Level 30R storage system.

• Device provider for iSCSI clients, if any iSCSI clients such as Aurora Edits are

accessing the Level 30R storage system.

• K2 L30R RAID storage device provider. This device provider supports RAID

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