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Media Storage Location
About Media Storage Location
The default location for your media files is drive E: on your
TANDBERG Content Server. You may change this location to
store files on a Network Attached Storage (NAS) by using the
TCS wizard.
The TCS wizard gives you the ability to store your media in an
external location, which means that your recording capacity will
not be limited by the disk storage on the Content Server.
Your media will be recorded to a temporary directory on the
Content Server first, and then automatically moved to the NAS.
Your conferences will be streamed from the NAS using the
Content Server's streaming media server or another external
streaming media server that you specify.
We recommend NAS devices which are built on the Windows
Storage server and are Windows Hardware Quality Lab certified.
The file sharing protocol used by the Content Server to the NAS
is Microsoft SMB.
For best performance, we recommend that the NAS you
!
use for storing Content Server media files is a device
dedicated to media storage.
Running applications such as domain controllers, databases or
external streaming servers on the NAS used for Content Server
media file storage may result in errors and is not recommended.
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Introduction
Installation
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Before you start, make sure that:
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You have a current backup of your Content Server.
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The Content Server is added to same domain as the NAS (see the section on Authentication for details on adding the Content
Server to a domain).
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Choose or create an account in the domain that IIS on the Content Server will use to access the share on the NAS. This domain
account needs to have both administrative rights on the Content Server and permissions over the NAS share. This domain account
may be called anything you want, but in this document we will refer to it as MYDOMAIN\TCSNASUSER.
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You have enough time to complete the operation. The TCS wizard will move all valid media files (which are referenced by your
database) from the local drive to the external storage location. This may take some time, depending on how much media you have
recorded on E drive. The wizard will not move any media files which are not associated with the Content Server's database. That
includes orphaned temporary files not used in any conferences, .tcb import or export files or files placed in the data folder by the
user. These files will not be moved to the NAS from the local TCS disk drive and will be deleted. If moving media between NAS
locations or from the NAS back to a local TCS disk drive, these files will not be moved, but the wizard will not delete them.
To change the media storage location from the default E drive on the Content Server to the NAS:
1.
Configure your NAS
2.
Run the TCS Wizard from Remote Desktop on the Content Server
To change the media storage location back from the NAS to the default E drive location (or to another NAS):
3.
Run the TCS Wizard from Remote Desktop on the Content Server
NOTE:
The TCS wizard can run under the following user accounts:
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a domain administrator account,
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the special domain account, MYDOMAIN\TCSNASUSER,
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the local default administrator account.
When you start the TCS wizard, it will prompt you to end all calls. It will also put the Content Server in Idle mode, so no new calls are
accepted or transcoding jobs processed while the wizard is running. The wizard must be completed or cancelled in order to return the
TCS to normal operation (Online mode).
The TCS wizard will test your system configuration and information you enter and will display those test results in the
step. The wizard will not allow you to make changes and configure the system if one of the tests of your intended configuration is not
successful. You will have to check the external NAS configuration and the information you entered and and try again.
TCS
Backing up and
Quick Setup
Administration
Restoring
Changing the Media Storage Location - prerequisites
Steps Required for Changing the Media Storage Location
Administrator
Conference
Settings
Setup
Conferences
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Appendices
CONTENT SERVER
NAS:Test Results
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