Contents
Grass Valley Product Support.....................................................................................................4
Release Summary......................................................................................................................6
What's new in version 7.2.7.....................................................................................................6
Not supported in this release..................................................................................................7
Changes and features in previous releases............................................................................7
Version compatibility.................................................................................................................11
Compatible K2 Summit Production Client and K2 Solo Media Server components..............11
Compatible K2 Media Server components............................................................................13
Compatible K2 Control Point PC components.......................................................................13
Compatible HP ProCurve GigE switch components..............................................................14
Compatible K2 Lx0 RAID components..................................................................................15
Compatible K2 Lx0 RAID disk drive firmware........................................................................16
Compatible Grass Valley products.........................................................................................19
Compatible third party products............................................................................................20
Compatible recovery applications..........................................................................................20
Upgrading K2 systems..............................................................................................................22
Upgrading a K2 SAN.............................................................................................................22
About upgrading the K2 SAN with SiteConfig....................................................................22
Make recovery images.......................................................................................................23
Prepare SiteConfig for software deployment to K2 SAN devices......................................23
Deploy control point PC software.......................................................................................24
Take SAN clients offline.....................................................................................................25
Manage multiple K2 Media Servers...................................................................................25
Upgrade K2 Media Server.................................................................................................26
Upgrade RAID controller microcode..................................................................................35
Upgrade RAID disk drive firmware.....................................................................................35
Reset Capture Services.....................................................................................................36
Manage redundancy on K2 Media Servers.......................................................................37
Upgrade remaining K2 Media Servers...............................................................................38
Upgrade K2 client..............................................................................................................39
Upgrade Aurora Edit, Ingest, and Playout systems...........................................................45
Upgrade NAS systems......................................................................................................45
Upgrade Browse and MediaFrame systems......................................................................46
Upgrade other SAN clients................................................................................................46
Make recovery images.......................................................................................................46
Upgrading stand-alone K2 systems with SiteConfig..............................................................47
About upgrading stand-alone K2 systems with SiteConfig................................................47
Make recovery images.......................................................................................................48
Prepare for K2 system upgrade.........................................................................................48
Upgrade QuickTime...........................................................................................................48
Configure SNFS default.cfg file on stand-alone K2 system...............................................49
Prepare SiteConfig for software deployment to stand-alone K2 systems..........................50
Check all currently installed software on stand-alone K2 systems....................................50
Add software package to deployment group for stand-alone K2 systems.........................51
Unlock K2 Summit Production Clients or K2 Solo Media Servers.....................................52
Upgrade software on stand-alone K2 systems..................................................................53
Power cycle K2 system......................................................................................................55
Install required Windows update........................................................................................55
Upgrade LSI RAID controller driver...................................................................................56
2 K2 Version 7.2.7 Release Notes & Upgrade Instructions 12 May 2010