K2 Media Server description

The central component of the K2 SAN is the K2 Media Server. The Dell PowerEdge R610 and R620 are qualified as the platform for the K2 Media Server.

The following interfaces provide K2 SAN functionality with Dell PowerEdge R610:

• Two GigE ports on the motherboard. The R610 has four GigE ports, but only two are used.
• One iSCSI interface card. A port on this card is also referred to as a TOE (TCP/IP Offload Engine).
• One Fibre Channel card.

The following interfaces provide K2 SAN functionality with Dell PowerEdge R620:

• Broadcom Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ with two 1GbE (TOE and iSCSI offload available on 10GbE ports)
• Fibre channel adapter: ATTO Celerity FC-81EN Single-Channel 8Gb/s Fibre Channel PCIe 2.0 Host Adapter.
• QLogic QLE8262 Dual-Port, 10Gbps Ethernet-to-PCIe® Converged Network Adapter.