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Quick Start Guide

This guide is designed to assist the new user in getting immediate results from the GV-Storage System. For advanced 
information on how to use the GV-Storage System, please refer to 

GV-Storage System User’s Manual

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© 2008 March GeoVision, Inc. All rights reserved.

SRV1-QG-1

GV-Storage System

RoHS

The Vision of Security

 

Summary of Contents for GV-Storage System

Page 1: ...in getting immediate results from the GV Storage System For advanced information on how to use the GV Storage System please refer to GV Storage System User s Manual 2008 March GeoVision Inc All rights reserved SRV1 QG 1 GV Storage System RoHS The Vision of Security ...

Page 2: ...ver Backup Viewer Gigabit Ethernet GV Storage System AC Power Cord x 2 Lock Key x 2 Self Stick Rubber Pad x 4 GV Storage System User s Manual on software CD GV Storage System Quick Start Guide on software CD Package List Package List Check Certification List in Appendix to confirm the hardware setting is fully supported A DVR server of GV System version 8 2 with a network interface card NIC CAT 5e...

Page 3: ...ters Use lower case letters for Host name in the storage system otherwise you cannot establish the connection between the storage system and DVR Order of Hard Drive Slots Remember the order of hard drive slots on the storage system When you see the warning message Error Disk slot is failed remove the failed hard drive in the correct slot If you remove the hard drive in the wrong slot you could suf...

Page 4: ...t server open the browser and enter the default IP http 192 168 0 200 Click any function on the left side of window enter the default login name admin and password admin Step 4 Create a RAID Volume Step 4 Create a RAID Volume 1 4 There are two methods to create a RAID volume Before creating a volume please make sure all hard disks are installed in the system properly by selecting Volume config Phy...

Page 5: ...cel when this warning message pops up LBA 64 Support Choose Cancel It will change the sector size to 4K The maximum capacity is up to 16 TB This volume can not be Dynamic Disk 3 Part II Create an independent volume for each host In this example three UDVs user data volume are created in one VG and assigned for three different hosts DVR system Video Server and Compact DVR for data storage Create VG...

Page 6: ...ctdvr can access UDV 3 is attached to LUN 2 which only initiator node named videoserver can access Create UDV User Data Volume 2 Select Volume config User data volume Click Create Type a UDV name choose a VG Name and enter a size to the UDV Decide the stripe height block size read write mode and set priority Finally click Confirm A UDV has been created Do one more time to create another UDV a b c ...

Page 7: ...oth data ports are used for connection to the DVR host add two data port IPs respectively 3 Click the Targets tab and click Log On 4 Select Automatically restore this connection when the system boots and click Advanced 5 Select Local Adaptor to Microsoft iSCSI Initiator select Source IP to the host IP and select Target Portal to iSCSI data port 1 If the CHAP authentication is enabled at the storag...

Page 8: ...ep 13 If the iSCSI data port 2 is used for connection to the DVR host click Details and keep on the following steps 7 Click Connections 8 Click Add 9 Click Advanced 10 Select Target Portal to iSCSI data port 2 set up the CHAP authentication if necessary and click OK 11 Now you can see the status of both Source Portals displays Connected Click Apply 12 Figure In this example the iSCSI data port 2 i...

Page 9: ...k OK to automatically configure the iSCSI drive to the recording path 2 3 To verify the iSCSI drive is added successfully check if the status of the drive displays Standby Or in GV System click the Configure button point to General Setting select System Configure click the Set Location button and then select Storage Group Folder to confirm the new recording path 4 Step 6 Add the iSCSI Disk to Reco...

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