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K2 SAN prerequisites for adding clients
The following K2 SAN preparations are required to support adding SAN clients:
• All K2 Media Servers and/or K2 RAID storage devices must be installed and cabled.
• The control network must be operational with K2 devices communicating. At the command
prompt, use the ping command to verify.
• For basic, non-redundant K2 SANs, the media network must be operational. You can check this
with the K2Config application.
• For redundant K2 SANs, media network A and media network B must be operational. You can
check this with the K2Config application.
• K2 RAID devices must have disks bound and be configured as required for operation on the K2
SAN.
• K2 Media Servers must be configured such that an operational media file system is present.
• K2 Ethernet switches must be configured and have V-LANs set up.
• The SAN to which you are adding your clients must be defined with the appropriate number and
type of clients. In other words, in the K2Config application tree view you should see the clients
you are about to add represented as unconfigured devices.
• The K2 Media Server with role of file system server must be licensed as appropriate for the
design of your K2 SAN.
NOTE: Do not run Storage Utility on a shared storage client. For shared storage, run Storage
Utility only via the K2Config application.
Verify license on K2 Media Server
The K2 SAN license is installed on K2 Media Servers with role of iSCSI bridge. If a redundant
system and/or a large system with multiple servers, the license must be installed on each K2 Media
Server with role of iSCSI bridge. Use the following steps to verify the license on each K2 Media
Server with role of iSCSI bridge.
1. On the K2 Media Server, open SabreTooth License Manager.
2. Verify that a license identified as K2-ISCSI-SVR is installed.
If the license for your K2 SAN license is not installed, you must install it before proceeding.
Related Topics
About K2 SAN licensing on page 119
Licensing a K2 Media Server on page 291
Preparing K2 clients
Do the following to each system in preparation for its addition as a client to the K2 SAN:
1. If you have not already done so, rack, cable, and provide power.
2. Power on the K2 client and log on to Windows as Windows administrator, which is username
Administrator and password adminK2 by default. Ignore startup messages referring to a missing
media storage system.
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