Grass Valley K2 Summit Storage Area Network Installation - Manual (Page 6)

Dell R610 NH10GE for basic nearline K2 SAN...................................................................................57
Dell R610 NH10GE for redundant nearline K2 SAN...........................................................................58
Cable K2 RAID.......................................................................................................................................58
K2 RAID for basic K2 SAN..................................................................................................................58
K2 RAID for redundant K2 SAN..........................................................................................................59
K2 RAID for basic nearline K2 SAN....................................................................................................60
K2 RAID for redundant nearline K2 SAN............................................................................................61
Chapter 4: Setting up the K2 SAN infrastructure...................................................................63
Setting up the Ethernet switch................................................................................................................64
Configuring the Ethernet switch via serial connection.........................................................................64
Configuring the Ethernet switch via the Web interface........................................................................67
Configuring QOS on the GigE switch..................................................................................................73
Verify flow control setting on the GigE switch......................................................................................74
Setting up the control point PC...............................................................................................................75
To fix NetCentral screen resolution problem.......................................................................................76
Install SiteConfig on control point PC..................................................................................................76
Chapter 5: Planning and implementing a K2 SAN with SiteConfig......................................81
About developing a system description..................................................................................................82
Importing a system description...............................................................................................................82
About device and host names................................................................................................................82
Modifying a device name........................................................................................................................83
Modifying the control network.................................................................................................................83
Modifying the FTP/streaming network....................................................................................................85
Modifying a media (iSCSI) network........................................................................................................87
About IP configuration of network interfaces on devices........................................................................89
Placeholder device IP configuration....................................................................................................90
Discovered device IP configuration.....................................................................................................90
Modifying K2 client unassigned (unmanaged) interface.........................................................................91
Modifying K2 Media Server unassigned (unmanaged) interface............................................................93
About SiteConfig support on K2 devices................................................................................................96
Discovering devices with SiteConfig.......................................................................................................96
Assigning discovered devices.................................................................................................................97
Modifying K2 client managed network interfaces...................................................................................98
Modifying K2 Media Server managed network interfaces....................................................................103
Making the host name the same as the device name...........................................................................108
Pinging devices from the control point PC............................................................................................109
About hosts files and SiteConfig...........................................................................................................109
Generating host tables for devices with SiteConfig...............................................................................110
Chapter 6: Managing K2 Software.........................................................................................111
Configuring K2 software deployment....................................................................................................112
Configuring deployment groups........................................................................................................112
Adding a software package to a deployment group..........................................................................113
Checking all currently installed software on devices.........................................................................113
About deploying software for the K2 SAN.........................................................................................114
Backup and Recovery Strategies..........................................................................................................114
About the recovery disk image process............................................................................................114
Recommended recovery process.....................................................................................................116
Creating a recovery disk image for storing on E:..............................................................................116
Creating a recovery disk image CD set.............................................................................................117
Restoring from a system-specific recovery disk image on E:............................................................118
Restoring from the generic recovery disk image on E:.....................................................................120
Restoring from a recovery disk image CD set...................................................................................123
Activating the Windows operating system.........................................................................................124
6 K2 SAN Installation and Service Manual 18 November 2010
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