GRASS VALLEY K2 SAN, Installation And Service Manual

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10. Click
OK
to close the Bind dialog box and begin the binding process.
The Progress Report dialog box opens, showing the status of the binding process.
11. Close the Progress Report and repeat these steps for other unbound disks.
If specified by your system design, you can bind some disks as Hot Spares.
When you are done, if you did not bind any extra Hot Spares, you should have the following
results:
For redundant storage, on the primary RAID chassis you should have one RAID 1 RANK disk,
one Hot Spare Disk, and one or more RAID 5 or RAID 6 RANKs, with each RANK having six
disks, as necessary to fill the primary RAID chassis. For each optional Expansion chassis, RANKs
are similar.
12. Click
Close
in Progress Report window.
13. Restart the K2 Media Server.
NOTE: Make sure start up processes on the K2 Media Server are complete before proceeding.
Next, create a new file system.
Related Topics
Identifying disks on page 310
About full/background bind on page 314
Binding Hot Spare drives on page 316
Creating a new file system - Redundant K2 SAN
Prerequisites for the K2 RAID chassis are as follows:
• Fibre Channel cable(s) connected
• Ethernet cable(s) connected
• Power on
• Disks bound
Prerequisites for the optional K2 RAID Expansion chassis are as follows:
• Fibre channel cable(s) connected
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