GRASS VALLEY K2 Installation And Service Manual

K2-SVR-NH10GE redundant nearline.................................................................................................57
Cable K2 RAID.......................................................................................................................................57
K2 RAID basic online/production........................................................................................................58
K2 RAID redundant online/production.................................................................................................59
K2 RAID basic nearline.......................................................................................................................59
K2 RAID redundant nearline...............................................................................................................60
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
Upgrading firmware on HP switch.......................................................................................................75
Setting up the control point PC...............................................................................................................76
To fix NetCentral screen resolution problem.......................................................................................77
Install SiteConfig on control point PC..................................................................................................77
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................................................................................................................83
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 PC that hosts SiteConfig..............................................................................109
About hosts files and SiteConfig...........................................................................................................109
Generating host tables using SiteConfig...............................................................................................110
Chapter 6: Managing K2 Software.........................................................................................113
Configuring K2 software deployment....................................................................................................114
Configuring deployment groups........................................................................................................114
Adding a software package to a deployment group..........................................................................115
Checking all currently installed software on devices.........................................................................115
About deploying software for the K2 SAN.........................................................................................116
Backup and Recovery Strategies..........................................................................................................116
About the recovery disk image process............................................................................................116
Recommended recovery process.....................................................................................................117
Creating a recovery disk image for storing on E:..............................................................................118
Restoring from a system-specific recovery disk image on E:............................................................119
Restoring from the generic recovery disk image on E:.....................................................................120
Installing the Discovery Agent on a K2 Media Server.......................................................................122
Setting up Windows...........................................................................................................................123
Activating the Windows operating system.........................................................................................123
6 K2 SAN Installation and Service Manual 02 February 2012
Contents

GRASS VALLEY K2 Specifications

General

Brand	GRASS VALLEY
Model	K2
Category	Storage
Language	English