Bind RANK

You must access Storage Utility (via the K2 System Configuration application login) with permissions equivalent to K2 administrator or higher.
When you access Storage Utility, the K2 SAN must be offline.
All iSCSI clients and K2 clients in the K2 SAN must be shut down.

Binding disk modules formats them into a logical units called RANKs. The disks that make up a RANK are accessed as a contiguous disk space. Disk modules must be bound before they can be part of the video storage file system.

For simplicity, the Storage Utility only allows binding the first available (at the top of the Available Disks list) contiguous disk modules into RANKs. After binding, disk modules become slot specific and cannot be moved to other disk module slots.

In the tree view, right-click the Unbound node and select Bind. (Peer controllers that share the same set of disks are automatically selected as a pair.) The Bind dialog box opens showing all unbound disks for the controller listed in the Available Disk list.
Leave Full Bind unchecked. Refer to the previous section “About full/background bind”.
In the Bind TYPE drop down box, select the RAID type. Refer to the installation chapter earlier in this document for your level of SAN for specific instructions.
In the Available Disks box, select contiguous disks at the top of the list as appropriate for the RAID type. (TIP: Use ‘shift-click’ or ‘control-click’ to select disks.)
Click the add (arrow) button to add disks to the Selected Disks list.
Note: As an aid in identifying a disk module’s physical location, select it in the Selected Disks list, then click Identify Disks. This causes the disk drive LED to flash.
Click OK to close the Bind dialog box and begin the binding process. The Progress Report dialog box opens, showing the status of the binding process.
Close the Progress Report and repeat these steps for other unbound disks.
Upon 100% completion, click Close in Progress Report window.
Restart the K2 Media Server.