Product Description
This chapter describes the K2 Storage System as follows:
Overview Description
The K2 Storage System is Grass Valley’s shared storage solution that gives multiple clients access to a common pool of media. Clients access the shared media storage via a Gigabit Ethernet network and a Fibre Channel connection. Data is communicated using the Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) data transfer interface and the Internet SCSI (iSCSI) protocol.
Refer to the sections later in this manual for the system description of each of the different levels of storage available, as follows:
Refer to the K2 Media Client System Guide for diagrams and explanations of the media file system and the media database.
The Grass Valley K2 Media Client can also support a direct Fibre Channel connection to the storage. Contact your Grass Valley representative for more information.
Key features
The key features of the K2 Storage System are as follows:
- iSCSI storage access protocol
- Gigabit Ethernet connectivity
- RAID 1, 3, and 5 storage
- FTP transfers
- Standard IT networked storage configurations to fit a wide variety of size and performance requirements.
- Scaling from 100 to < 1000MB/s
- Redundancy and fault recovery with no single point of failure
- Tuned and optimized file system for reliable and robust transaction of media files
- Best in class storage management for high throughput, deterministic performance with load balancing
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