Grass Valley Lx0 RAID User Manual

071-8684-00

Lx0 RAID on
Profile XP and Open SAN
Installation Instructions

Table of Contents

Grass Valley Product Support..........................................................................................2

About Lx0 RAID on the Open SAN...................................................................................4

About Lx0 RAID on a stand-alone Profile XP..................................................................5

Cable Lx0 RAID ...............................................................................................................6

Configure RAID network properties................................................................................6

Bind disks........................................................................................................................

Label disks........................................................................................................................

Modify file system configuration......................................................................................9

Update the file system.......................................................................................................11

Expand (restripe) existing media......................................................................................11

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About Lx0 RAID on the Open SAN

About Lx0 RAID on the Open SAN

You can add Lx0 RAID storage devices to an exi st ing Profi l e XP Open SAN for the
following purposes:

• Bandwidth expansion — To increase your maximum bandwidth, you add RAID
st

orage devices and configure them as an expansion of an existing stripe group or
groups. The size of an added LUN must be equal to or larger than the size of an
existing LUN. You can do this and retain existing media.

• Replacement — To fix a faulty RAID chassis, you remove the faulty chassis and
place it with a new chassis. When you do this, you lose existing media.

re

NOTE: Adding RAID storage devices changes your system design and must be

ified for your Open SAN by Grass Val ley. Do no t att empt to ad d RAID stora ge

spec
devices without support from Grass Valley.

Adding Lx0 RAID to a Profile XP Open SAN is supported as follows:

• Profile System Soft ware must be at version 5.4.9.1308, at the time of t his wr it ing .

act Grass Valley Support fo r information on compatibl e versions and to obtain

Cont
software.

• All Profile XP systems on the Open SAN must have the RTP-II board.

• The Fibre Channel fabric must be 2 Gb/s.

• If the Open SAN has one or more PFR 700 primary RAID chassis, you may add

on

more Lx0 RAID as additional primary RAID chassis, according to

e or

supported expansion procedures.

• The size of an added LUN must be equal to or larger than the size of an existing

LUN. If

• If the Open SAN has a PFR 70 0 pr imar y RAID c has si s, you may replace it with a

Lx

• If the Open SAN has PFC 500, PFR 500, or PFR 600 RAID and you want to

re
RAID devices. You may not mix Lx0 RAID with PFC 500, PFR 500, or PFR 600
RAID

Take the following into consideration as you add Lx0 RAID to an Open SAN:

• Refer to the Open San

information as necessary. This document assumes you understand the Open SAN
system and that you are familiar with configuration procedures.

• You must bind Lx0 RAID disks as RAID 5, with 5 disks per LUN.

• A Lx0 RAID chassis has slots for 12 disks (slots 0 – 11), yet only 10 disks are

ne

larger, that portion that exceeds the size of the existing LUN is unused.

0 RAID chassis.

place or expand, you must remove all RAID devices and replace them with Lx0

.

Instruction Manual for detailed procedures and related

eded to fill out the two RA ID 5 LUNs.

• Slots 0 – 4 must be used f or one RAID 5 LUN. Slot 5 can be used for a Hot Spare

disk

or you can put a blank in the slot. Slots 6 – 10 mus t be used for the ot her RAID

5 LUN. Slot 11 can be use d f or a Hot Spare disk or you can put a blank in the slot.

• A PFR 700 RAID has a single LAN card for Ethernet connection, while a Lx0

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About Lx0 RAID on a stand-alone Profile XP

RAID chassis has one or two controllers, each of which have their own Ethernet
connection. This results in the following:

• PFR 700 RAID is one device on the control network, rega rdl es s of if it has one
or

two contro llers.

• Lx0 RAID with one controller is one device on the control network.

• Lx0 RAID with two controllers is two devices on the control network.

About Lx0 RAID on a stand- al one Profile XP

You can add Lx0 RAID storage devices to stand-alone Profile XP only as a
replacement. To fix a faulty RAID chas sis, you remove the fau lty chassis and re place
it with a new chassis. When you do this, you lose existing media.

Adding Lx0 RAID to a stand-alone Profile XP is supported as follows:

• Profile System Software must be at version 5.4.9 or higher.

• The Profile XP system must have the RTP-II board.

• The Fibre Channel connections must be 2 Gb/s.

• You must remove all RAID devices from the stand-alone Profile XP and replace
t

hem wi

Take the following into consi de rat i on as you add Lx0 RAID to a st an d-alone Profile
XP:

• Refer to the Ins
and related information as necessary. This document assumes you understand the
Profile XP system and that you are familiar with configuration procedures.

• You must bind Lx0 RAID disks as RAID 5, with 5 disks per LUN.

• A Lx0 RAID chassis has slots for 12 disks (slots 0 – 11), yet only 10 disks are
neede

• Slots 0 – 4 must be used f or one RAID 5 LUN. Slot 5 can be use d fo r a Hot Spare
disk
5 LUN. Slot 11 can be use d for a Hot Spare disk or you can put a blank in t he s lot .

• A PFR 700 RAID has a single LAN card for Ethernet connection, while a Lx0
RAID
connection. This results in the following:

• PFR 700 RAID is configured as one device on the control network, regardless

• Lx0 RAID with one controller is configured as one device on the control

th Lx0 RAID devices.

tallation Guide for your Profile XP model for detailed procedures

d to fill out the two RAID 5 LUNs.

or you can put a blank in the slot. Slots 6 – 10 must be used for the ot her RAID

chassis has one or two controllers, each of which have their own Ethernet

of

if it has one or two controllers.

networ

k.

• Lx0 RAID with two controllers is configured as two devices on the control

networ

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k.

Cable Lx0 RAID

Cable Lx0 RAID

Any Lx0 chassis that you add to your Open SAN or stand-alone Profil e XP must have
all disks unbound. If it curr ently has disks bound as part of another syst em, connecting
it to your system can cause errors.

Lx0 RAID controllers must be configured for 2 Gb/s. Contact Grass Valley Support
for

information about this configuration.

1. Power down the Open SAN or stand-al one Profile XP, including a ll RAID device s.

2. Connect Lx0 RAID as follows:

• For an Open SAN, refer to the K2 S
procedures. Use the instructions for i nstalling a Level 10 system (one contro ller)
or Level 10R system (two controllers). When you make the Fibre Channel
connection, connect between the Lx0 RAID controll er and the Open SAN Fibre
Channel sw itch.

• For a stand-alone Profile XP, refer to the K2 Media
procedures. Use the instructions for installing Direct Connect Storage.

3. Power up RAID devices. Refer to the K2 Stora
Lx0 RAID procedures. Wait until the RAID devices stabilize, with no errors
indicated, before proceedi ng.

4. Continue with the next procedure “Configure RAID network properties”.

orage System Instruction Manual for

t

ge System Instruction Manual for

Configure RAID network properties

1. Use Disk Utility as follows:

• For an Open SAN, power up the primary FSM and open Disk Utility. Refer to

the

Open SAN Instruction Manual for procedures. Use the instructions for

PFR 700 RAID.

• For a stand-alone Profile XP, power up the Profile XP and open Disk Utility.

Re

fer to the Installation Guide for your Profile XP model. Use the instru cti ons

for PFR 700 RAID.

Client System Guide for

2. In Disk Utility, right-click the icon for a Lx0 controller and select

Properties

The Controller Network Settings dialog box opens.
Disk Utility features are different than those in the O

or the Installation Guide for your Profile XP model. For a chassis with two
controllers, you can make settings on both controllers using this dialog box.

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en SAN Instruction Manual

p

Set Network

Bind disks

3. In the Controller Slot Numbe r field enter 0 and then press Enter. The settings from

controller 0 are loaded into the Controller Network Settings dialog box and are
available for you to modify.

4. Enter the control network IP address and other network settings.

5. You want SNMP trap messages go to the NetCentral server PC, so for SNMP

Co

nfiguration enter the IP address of the NetCentral server PC. You can also enter
IP addresses for other SNMP managers to which you want to send SNMP trap
messages.

6. For the RAID chassis with two controllers, in the Controller Slot Number field
enter
Controller Network Setti ngs dialog box and are availabl e for you to modify. Repeat
the previous steps to configure controller 1.

7. Click

8. Continue with the next procedure “Bind disks”.

Bind disks

1. If you have not already done so, open Disk Utility as instructed in the earlier
procedure.

2. In Disk Utility, click

1 and then press Enter. The settings from controller 1 are loaded into the

OK to save settings and close.

View | Refresh.

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Label disks

3. If you have disks in the extra chassis slots (slots 10 and 11) in the primary or (if
present) expansion chassis, bind all these disks as Hot Spares. You must bind all
Hot Spares before binding the RAID 5 LUNs.

4. For each Lx0 chassis (both primary chassis and expansion chassis), bind disks as
fol

lows:
a. Bind 5 consecutive disks in slots 0 – 4 as a RAID 5 LUN
b. Bind the remaining 5 consecutive disks in slots 5 – 9 as a RAID 5 LUN.

5. When binding is complete, do one of following:

• If you are replacing RAID devices on a sta nd-alone Profile XP, create the video

f

le system as instructed in the Installation Guid e for your Profile XP model.

i
When the media file system is created and devices are res tarted, the replacement
procedure is complete.

• If you are replacing all RAID devices on an Open SAN, label disks and create
media file system configuration fi le as instructed in the Open SAN

the
Instruction Manual. When the media file system is created and devices are
restarted, the replacement procedure is complete.

• If you are adding Lx0 RAID devi ces to an Open SAN for b andwidth expansion,

create the media file system. Doing so destroys all existing media.

do not
Instead, just restart devices as instructed in the next step in this procedure.

6. Restart Open SAN devices as follows:
a. Power down the primary FSM.
b. Restart RAID devices. Wait until the RAID devices stabilize, with no errors

i

cated, before proceeding.

ndi
c. Power up the primary FSM.
d. On the primary FSM, open Disk Utility and confirm that the added disks are

av

ailable and properly bound.

7. To add adding Lx0 RAID devices to an Open SAN, continue with the next
proce

dure “Label disks”.

Label disks

NOTE: Do not label the Windows NT system disk. The disk drive labeling process
makes a drive unusable by Windows NT.

From the primary File System Manager only, label your disks as follows:

1. On the File System Manager, click

Labeler

2. Select the new drives. The new drives are the LUNs that you bound using the
proce

dures earlier. They should appea r as unused dri ves or drives t hat do not have

a recognized volume type. To identify the physical location of the disks, use the

Probe Disk(s) button to make the disk lights flash.

Programs | Media Area Network | Disk Device

. The Disk Labeler application opens.

Your Windows NT system disk is usually listed as Physic

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alDrive0. Do not select

this disk.

Modify file system configuration

3. Click

Label. To confirm the opera tion, cli ck OK. For ea ch drive s elected , the Make

a Label dialog box appears.

4. Enter a label name for the drive. Extend the current naming convention as

appro

priate.

NOTE: MetaData is a reserved word. Do not use it for custom names.

5. In the

New Sectors field, enter exactly th e same number of secto rs as the exis ting

LUNs. This is required even i f t he ne w LUNs ar e a di ff er ent si ze ( la rge r) than the
existing LUNs.

6. Click

Create Label to save the label name for the disk.

7. Repeat steps four to six for the remaining drives.

8. When the disk labeling process is complete, exit the application.

9. To add adding Lx0 RAID devices to an Open SAN, continue with the next

pr

dure “Modify file system configuration”.

oce

Modify file system configuration

In this procedure you add the new LUNs to an existing stripe group or groups.
Pre-requisites for this procedure are as follows:

• The new RAID storage to be added to the file system is correctly scaled and load

b

anced, as specified by Grass Valley for the specific Open SAN.

al

• The new RAID storage devices are correct ly set up, LUNS bound , and configure d,

as sp

ecified by the appropriate checklist from earlier in this section.

Use the Configuration Administrator application to modify the file system
confi

guration file. This file is named default.cfg. In an Open SAN with redundant

FSMs, this file is the same on both FSMs.
To add new LUNs to stripe groups, do the following:

1. On the FSM, stop the file syste m as follows:

a. Click

Programs | Media Area Network | File System Administrator. The File

System Administrator application opens.

b. Click

File | Stop File System and confirm on message boxes that appear.

c. Exit the File System Administrator application.

NOTE: Do not stop the CVFS file system services.

2. Open the Configuration Administrator application as follows:

a. Click

Programs | Media Area N etwork | Configuration Admini strator. The opening

screen of the Configuration Administrator appears.

b. Click

3. On the

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Modify Existing and open default.cfg. The Configuration dialog box opens.

Disk Definitions tab, configure as follows:

Modify file system configuration

a. Add a disk name for each of the new disks by clicking the New button that is

below the Disks Available
box.

b. Define a disk name by entering one of the disk label names you used to label

your ne
application. The dis k names you defi ne in the Ent er New Disk Name di alog box
must exactly match the disk labels from the Disk Device Labeler application,
Disk names are case sensitive.

c. Repeat steps a and b until all of your new Ope n SAN di sks ar e displayed in the

Available box. The existing Open SAN disks shoul d stil l be disp layed as

Disks
well.

box. This opens the Enter New Disk Name dialog

w disks. These disk label names ar e displayed in the Disk Device Label er

d. For your new disks, select eac h disk name and in the

Disk Type drop-down list,

select the same disk type as that of the e xisting disks. Thi s is required even if the
new LUNs are a different (RAID 5 vs. RAID 3) than the existing LUNs.

4. On the

Stripe Groups tab, add the n ew drives t o your exi sting video s tripe gr oup or

groups, as follows:
a. In the Stripes Available box select your video stripe group.
a. Next to the Primary box, click the

Modify button. The Add/Remove Primary

Disks dialog box opens.
Click the arrow buttons to move the approp ri at e n ew di sks for this stripe gro up

to

the Primary Disks box. Click

OK to close the Add/Remove Primary Disks

dialog box.

b. With your video stripe group still selected in the Stripes Available box, verify

or modi

fy configuration according to the specifications from Grass Valley for

expanding bandwidth on your Open SAN, as follows:

• Status:Up: Checked

• Exclusive: Not checked

• Metadata: Not checked

• Journal: Not checked

• Stripe Breadth: 144

• Mirror Read Method: Rotate

• Primary | Read: Checked

• Primary | Write: Checked

• RTIOS Quality of Serv ice value for y our system, clic k the

enter the value in the

Rtios box. Enter only the value provided to you by a

Stripe Groups tab a nd

qualified Grass Valle y representative that has been calcul ated specifically for
your expanded Media Area Network. There is no default value for this setting
that applies to more than one system. Do not “guess” at wha t the value might be
for your system. If you do not have a calculated RTIOS value, enter 0.

5. When you are satisfied with all your settings in the Configuration Administrator

cation, click

appli

OK. The Save A File dialog box opens. Save the configuration

file, overw riting the cur rent default.cfg file, and exit the Configuration

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Administrator application.

NOTE: DO NOT reinitialize the file system.

6. To add adding Lx0 RAID devices to an Open SAN, continue with the next

dure “Update the file system”.

proce

Update the file system

Since the configurati on of stripe groups has changed , you must update the file system.
The update incorporat es the new disks without complete ly reinitia lizing the file
system. To do the update you use the cvupdatefs utility. This utility detects changes
in a stripe group's configuration file and updates t he file system metadata to reflect
these changes.

To update the file system for the stripe group change, do the following:

1. As in the previous procedure, the file system should still be stopped but the file

syst

em services should be running.

2. On the FSM, from the MS-DOS command prompt, navigate to the following

loc

ation:

Update the file system

C:\MediaAreaNetwork\bin

3. At the command prompt, type the following and press

cvupdatefs default

The utility displays any expanded stripe groups it detects and prompts for
ve

fication.

ri

4. Type Y and press

stripe groups. It can ta ke se ver al hour s, depending on the size of your fi le syst em,
for the utility to complete its process es.

5. When the utility reports processes complete, restart the FSM.

6. If a redundant FSM system, update the backup FSM as follows:

a. Copy def
b. Place backup FSM into service.

7. Restart Profile XP s ystems twice.

8. Test as follows:

a. Record a short clip and make sure dis k lights flash across the enti re stripe grou p,

on

bot

h new and original disks.

b. Delete test clips. Do not use new codecs or sav e newly recorde d clips unt il you

have e

xpanded existing clips, as in the next procedure.

Enter to verify. The u tili ty u pdates the metada ta a nd expa nds the

ault.cfg to

backup FSM.

Enter:

9. To add adding Lx0 RAID devices to an Open SAN, continue with the next

proce

dure “Expand (restripe) existing media”.

Expand (restripe) existing media

Use this procedure to expand by bandwidth on an Open SAN.

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Expand (restripe) existing media

With an expanded stripe group, ne wly recorded clips are st riped acro ss both new and
old disks and so take advantage of the increased bandwidth. However, existing clips
remain striped across the old disks only. Whi le these clips still play out, they d o so
without accessing the increased bandwidth. To allow the existing clips to use the
increased bandwidth, th ey must be expanded (copied) across all the disk s in the stripe
group. To do this you use the Dynamic Disk Expansion tool, as explained in the
following procedure. The tool automatical ly makes a copy of each media fil e, deletes
the original file, then renames the copy the same as the original. You can run the
Dynamic Disk Expansion tool to expand your media in the background while your
normal media operations are underway.

To expand existing media across the entire stripe group, do the following:

1. Choose a Profile XP on the Open SAN on which to run the Dynamic Disk

pansion tool.

Ex

2. Restart the Profile XP.

3. From the Profile XP, open the following:

C:\profile\DBE.exe

The Dynamic Bandwidth Expansion tool opens.

4. Click

Config | View. The Configuration dialog box opens.

5. For Reference time, enter the time and date that y ou reconfigure d your Open SAN
fo

r expanded bandwidth. Th e tool expa nds all med ia file s created before t his time.

Media files created after this time are not expanded.
Leave all other s ettings at thei r defau lt valu es, as t hey hav e no bear ing on t he tasks

neces

sary for media expansion.

6. Click

OK to save settings and close.

7. Click the start button to begin expanding media. The tool displays a list of media
expans

ion tasks and begins processing them.

NOTE: Depending on the size of your Open SAN and t he number of clips yo u have

corded, it may take up to 20 minutes to scan the drives an build the task list. Do

re
not shut down the Dynamic Bandwidth Expansion tool if no tasks appear in the
window in the first few minutes.

View drive lights flashing across all disks in the stripe group to verify the

triping process. In the “%” column you can monitor the progress of each task.

re-s
As each task completes, it is purged from the list.

8. When all tasks complete, close the Dynamic Bandwidth Expansion tool.

9. To verify that Dynamic Bandwidth Expansion tool processed all your clips, open
Media Mana

ger and check modifie d times. There should be n o clip with a modifi ed
time that is prior to the time that you reconfigured your Open SAN for expanded
bandwidth. To verify that a clip is correctly re-striped, play a clip and verify that
disk lights flash across both original and new disks.

10.Update other system elements as appropriate, as follows:

• Configure NetCentral to monitor added RAID devices.

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Expand (restripe) existing media

• Update recovery disk images.

• Record system information. Make sure you keep diagrams and other on-site
documen

The Dynamic Bandwidth Expansion process is now complete.

tation up to date.

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Expand (restripe) existing media

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