Contents
Grass Valley Product Support.....................................................................................................4
Release Summary......................................................................................................................6
What's new in version 7.1.0.....................................................................................................6
Version 7.1.0........................................................................................................................6
Changes and features in previous releases............................................................................6
Version 6.5.1.440...............................................................................................................10
Version 6.5.........................................................................................................................10
Older versions....................................................................................................................11
Version compatibility.................................................................................................................12
System specifications............................................................................................................12
HP workstation board assignments.......................................................................................17
Compatible DSM components...............................................................................................20
Compatible Grass Valley products.........................................................................................20
Compatible third party products............................................................................................21
Upgrading Aurora Edit and Aurora Edit LD systems.................................................................23
Upgrading Aurora Edit and Edit LD devices with SiteConfig.................................................23
About upgrading Aurora Edit and Aurora Edit LD with SiteConfig.....................................23
Make recovery images.......................................................................................................24
Prepare for upgrade...........................................................................................................24
Upgrading Aurora Edit and Edit LD devices with SiteConfig.................................................25
Prepare SiteConfig for software deployment.....................................................................25
Install prerequisite files on the control point PC.................................................................26
Upgrade K2 systems.........................................................................................................26
Set up K2 Aurora FTP........................................................................................................26
Distribute devices into deployment groups........................................................................29
Install High Priority Windows updates (recommended).....................................................30
Manually upgrade systems................................................................................................30
Check all currently installed software on Aurora Edit devices............................................30
Add software package to deployment group for Aurora Edit devices.................................31
Setting deployment options................................................................................................33
Upgrade software on shared storage Aurora Edit workstations.........................................35
Upgrade software on Aurora Edit devices..........................................................................39
Upgrade NAS systems......................................................................................................42
Upgrade Browse and MediaFrame systems......................................................................42
Make recovery images.......................................................................................................42
Manually Installing Aurora Edit/Aurora Edit LD Software..........................................................44
Third Party Software Installation...............................................................................................46
Licensing Grass Valley products...............................................................................................47
About software licensing.......................................................................................................47
Requesting a license.............................................................................................................47
Adding a license....................................................................................................................49
Deleting licenses...................................................................................................................50
Archiving licenses..................................................................................................................50
New topics................................................................................................................................51
New Topics in 7.1..................................................................................................................51
New topics in 7.0.0................................................................................................................51
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Aurora Edit and Edit LD Version 7.1.0 Release Notes and Upgrade Instructions
18 October 2010