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Fibre Channel connected clients (redundant FSMs)



This system differs from the iSCSI extended system as follows:
  • K2 SAN-attached client systems have a Fibre Channel card installed and are connected directly to the Fibre Channel Fabric. This replaces the iSCSI layer.
  • Because there is no iSCSI, there is no need for multiple K2 Media Servers to act as iSCSI bridges, reducing the total number of K2 Media Servers required.
  • There is a RAID chassis dedicated for file system metadata.
  • The FSM K2 Media Servers read/write data over Fibre Channel only to the metadata RAID chassis.
  • The FSM K2 Media Servers must "see" (be on the same Fibre Channel fabric with) the media RAID, even though they do not read/write data to the media RAID.
Guidelines for this system are as follows:
  • When adding a K2 SAN-attached client system in K2Config, set the Storage access option to Fibre Channel.
  • When configuring the system in K2Config, select the Server redundancy option.

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