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GraniteRack
G4

OE-GRANITE4U

www.openeye.net

Digital Storage System

Hardware Manual

Summary of Contents for G4 GraniteRack

Page 1: ...GraniteRack G4 OE GRANITE4U www openeye net Digital Storage System Hardware Manual...

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Page 3: ...n or loss of business information even if OPENEYE has been advised of the possibility of such damages or whether in an action contract or tort including negligence This software and documentation are...

Page 4: ...tlet This will prevent damage to the product due to lightning and power line surges 10 Object and Liquid Entry Points Never insert foreign objects into the recorder other than the media types approved...

Page 5: ...ft in contact with this product for extended periods of time will leave marks on the finish The top and rear panels of the unit may become warm after long periods of use This is not a malfunction NOTE...

Page 6: ...EROUS HIGH VOLTAGES ARE PRESENT INSIDE THE ENCLOSURE DO NOT OPEN THE CABINET REFER SERVICING TO QUALIFIED PERSONNEL ONLY RACK MOUNT INSTRUCTIONS Elevated Operating Ambient If installed in a closed or...

Page 7: ...f warranty replacement parts and repairs for 90 days from the date of OpenEye shipment The above warranty is the sole warranty made by OpenEye and is in lieu of all other warranties by OpenEye express...

Page 8: ...ing On the G4 GraniteRack 17 Turning Off the g4 granite rack 17 Configuring the G4 GraniteRAck 18 Initial Start Up 18 Logging in 18 Changing Your Password 18 Network Configuration 19 Configure Team Ne...

Page 9: ...31822AE 9 Appendix A RAID Concepts 24 Disk Striping 24 Definition of RAID Levels 25 RAID Management 28 Appendix B Array Definition 29 RAID Set 29 Volume Set 29...

Page 10: ...storage server All troubleshooting and repair procedures that may be shown are for reference and minor repair only Because of the complexity of the individual components and subassemblies no one shou...

Page 11: ...video is no longer restricted to recorder to storage box installations With a 4U chassis and 16 hot swappable hard drive bays the OpenEye G4 GraniteRack is capable of aggressive IP recording with 900...

Page 12: ...r houses the drive bays and LEDs REAR PANEL CONNECTORS The rear panel of the iSCSI Storage Server contains virtually all of the connectors you will be using 1 2 1 2 4 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16...

Page 13: ...dentify the following components to make sure everything has been properly included with the new recorder If any of the following items are missing contact the dealer to arrange a replacement G4 Grani...

Page 14: ...or click the same button twice quickly In this manual Click means to position the mouse cursor over an item and to single click the left button Right click means to position the mouse cursor over an i...

Page 15: ...e POWER SETUP WARNING To reduce the risk of electrical shock or damage to the equipment Do not disable the power grounding plug The grounding plug is an important safety feature If the electrical plug...

Page 16: ...When connecting a G4 GraniteRack use 2 connections per unit 1 and 2 3 and 4 5 and 6 7 and 8 respectively Ports 9 16 are to be used to connect the recorders and ports 17 24 can be used to connect came...

Page 17: ...he unit 3 The Power LED on the front panel will light up indicating that the machine is running 4 The G4 GraniteRack will run a series of self tests After two or three minutes a series of messages may...

Page 18: ...nd Keyboard layout Set these items and then click Next 3 Type your Product Key This can be found on the packaging 4 Click Next 5 Accept the licensing terms to complete the startup Logging in OpenEye r...

Page 19: ...Click Next 9 Select both 82574L Gigabit Network Connection and 82579L Gigabit Network Connection 10 Click Next 11 Click Finish 12 Click OK and then click OK again to complete this configuration Set T...

Page 20: ...ecommends creating a separate volume for each recorder on your system The size of each volume is dependent on the recording needs of each recorder Repeat these steps as necessary to create the appropr...

Page 21: ...arget Name vhd 5 Set the Size of the Virtual Disk in megabits 6 Type an effective Virtual Disk Description 7 To assign a recorder client to the volume click Add 8 Select the target recorder 9 Click Ne...

Page 22: ...seen by your recorder as blank hard disks In order to save video you must first format the volume Set the Volume Size 1 Click Disk Management 2 In the Initialize Disk window select GBT Note GBT suppo...

Page 23: ...et Management Interface Network Inputs Dedicated iSCSI 1GbE connections w Load Balancing x2 1GbE Network Management Interface Video Outputs 1 VGA 1 D Sub Operating System Microsoft Windows Embedded St...

Page 24: ...nce so that the combined space is composed of stripes from each drive alternately The specific type of operating environment determines whether large or small stripes should be used Most current opera...

Page 25: ...rives that store duplicate data but appear to the computer as a single drive Although striping is not used within a single mirrored drive pair multiple RAID 1 arrays can be striped together to create...

Page 26: ...O request at a time RAID 3 delivers the best performance for single user single tasking environments with long records Synchronized spindle drives are required fro RAID 3 arrays in order to avoid perf...

Page 27: ...wo drives are used RAID 3 can be sued to speed up data transfer and provide fault tolerance in single user environments that access long sequential records However RAID 3 does not allow overlapping of...

Page 28: ...l data is duplicated on an equivalent drive Fully redundant 2 3 Data is striped across several physical drives Parity protection is used for data redundancy 3 5 Data is striped across several physical...

Page 29: ...are grouped together in a RAID Set then the capacity of the smallest disk will become the effective capacity of all the disks in the RAID Set VOLUME SET A Volume Set is seen by the host system as a s...

Page 30: ...ion from OpenEye The information in this publication is believed to be accurate in all respects However OpenEye cannot assume responsibility for any consequences resulting from the use thereof The inf...

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