HIKVISION 81 Series Quick Operation Manual
HIKVISION 81 Series Quick Operation Manual

HIKVISION 81 Series Quick Operation Manual

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Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System
81 Series Storage System
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  • Page 1 Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System 81 Series Storage System Quick Operation Guide UD.6L0205B1500A01...
  • Page 2 Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Thank you for purchasing our product. If there is any question or request, please do not hesitate to contact dealer. This guide may contain several technically incorrect places or printing errors, and the content is subject to change without notice.
  • Page 3 Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Regulatory information FCC information compliance: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment.
  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction........................1 1.1 Description ........................... 1 1.2 Features ............................1 Chapter 2 Installation and Working Environment ................2 2.1 Power Supply System ........................2 2.2 Control of Working Environment ....................2 2.3 Installation and Initial Power-on ....................
  • Page 5 Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System 8.4 Mapping to Local Disk & Formatting iSCSI Disk ................43 8.5 Creating iSCSI Connection in Redhat5 ..................44 8.6 Creating iSCSI Connection in Suse 10 ..................46 Chapter 9 Configuring NAS Settings ....................48 9.1 Creating NAS Net Disk ........................
  • Page 6: Chapter 1 Introduction

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Description Developed on the basis of Linux operating system, the storage system is a kind of high-performance and cost-effective Gigabit network storage system and is mainly applicable to the medium and large-scale video surveillance system, featuring flexible allocation and facilitated configuration.
  • Page 7: Chapter 2 Installation And Working Environment

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Chapter 2 Installation and Working Environment The device described in this manual should be installed in a standardized equipment room. 2.1 Power Supply System The storage system is very sensitive to the change of a voltage, and an excessive high or low voltage, or a sudden change of the voltage may delete the data in the memory or even cause the damage of the components.
  • Page 8: Installation And Initial Power-On

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System measurements shown below to take proper measurements:  Use an air conditioner to control the temperature and the humidity at least 2 or 3 days before installing the device.  The working environment of the device should meet the temperature of 23 ºC±2 ºC, humidity ºC...
  • Page 9: Notes For Installation

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System 2.4 Notes for Installation  The device is high-precision equipment. Please keep stable and gentle when moving it.  Installation and running environment must meet standards. Take regular investigations and records for the equipment room, or apply a remote monitoring for the working status of the device.
  • Page 10: Chapter 3 Hardware Installation

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Chapter 3 Hardware Installation 3.1 Hardware System The Network Storage System includes hardware system and software system, which can be installed separately. The software storage system can manage the network storage devices via network.
  • Page 11: Description Of Buttons On Front Panel

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Figure 3. 2 Front View of Front Panel 1~16 indicates the sequence of the 16 hard disk slots. 3.1.3 Description of Buttons on Front Panel The buttons on the front panel are shown below.
  • Page 12 Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Figure 3. 4 Rear Panel with Redundant Power Supplies Figure 3. 5 Rear Panel with Single Power Supply Table 3. 1 Description of Rear Panel Icon Description ① Power supply ② Power switch ③...
  • Page 13: Installation Requirements

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System ⑨ Expansion port ⑩ Expansion port LED indicator ⑪ Audio interface ⑫ I/O FN device positioning LED indicator ⑬ FN device positioning button ⑭ COM1 for connecting Hyper Terminal COM2 for connecting mobile phone alarm device ⑮...
  • Page 14: Hdd Installation

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System 3.3 HDD Installation 3.3.1 Selecting HDD Model It is recommended to adopt the certificated professional HDD models so as to ensure the stable running of the system and the reliable data storage. It is highly recommended to purchase the enterprise-class hard disks, e.g., Seagate Constellation™...
  • Page 15: Precautions During Hdd Installation

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Figure 3. 7 Remove the Plastic Parts 3. Use four screws to secure the HDD (with the PCB side downward) to the bracket. Figure 3. 8 Secure the HDD 4. Insert the HDD bracket (with the PCB side towards the left of the chassis) to the chassis and push it along the guide apparatus to the bottom.
  • Page 16: Power On/Off

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System 7. The certification for the new hard disk is required when it is plugged to the system for the first time. Please refer to Chapter 7 for details. Note: Please avoid unplugging a hard disk when it is writing/reading data so as to prevent data loss.
  • Page 17: Chapter 4 Ip Address Configuration For Ip San/Nas Access

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Chapter 4 IP Address Configuration for IP SAN/NAS Access 4.1 Login For the use of first time, the administrator is allowed to set the IP address for access to IP SAN/NAS. The manage port and data NIC1/NIC2 network port provided by the system can be connected with PC to configure system parameters over WEB Server.
  • Page 18: Configuring Network Parameters

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Click System > Network to enter the network management page. The administrator can also modify the IP address of the network port (100/100/1000Mbps). The default IP address of the network port is 192.168.0.100.
  • Page 19: Configuring Bonding Mode

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System transmission performance, yet it must be supported by the used router and other network devices. Click OK to save the settings. When the modification is successful, the following interface pops Figure 4. 4 Successfully Modified Bond NIC Info 4.2.2 Configuring Bonding Mode...
  • Page 20: Configuring Multi-Nic Bonding

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System 4.2.3 Configuring Multi-NIC Bonding Steps: On the Network Management interface, click the button in the NIC information field to enter the pop-up dialog box. Click OK to confirm the creation of NIC bonding. And the message box indicating successful creation will pop up in few seconds.
  • Page 21 Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Figure 4. 7 Network Connection...
  • Page 22: Chapter 5 System Monitoring And Alarm

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Chapter 5 System Monitoring and Alarm 5.1 System Monitoring After logging in the storage system, the administrator can view the basic status and the running information of the system. The top-right corner of the web page shows the current status of the system.
  • Page 23: Environmental Information

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System 5.2 Environmental Information In the Environmental Information interface (Maintenance>Control Message), the controller information, the chassis information, the expandable cabinet information and the audio warning information are listed. Controller Information The information of chassis fan speed, chassis temperature, fan control panel and power supply will be monitored.
  • Page 24: Chapter 6 Creation And Use Of Raid

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Chapter 6 Creation and Use of RAID The system supports RAID service which provides redundant storage for the data on disks. When the RAID is set to RAID 5, it will ensure data safety in case of one disk failure in this RAID group.
  • Page 25: Disk Management

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Figure 6. 2 Storage Management Interface 6.2 Disk Management 6.2.1 Viewing Disk List Click Storage> Disk to enter the disk management interface. Note: If there are no hard disks installed in the storage system, no disk information is available.
  • Page 26: Viewing Disk Checking Status

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Figure 6. 5 Specific Disk State 6.2.2 Viewing Disk Checking Status On the Disk Management interface, select the disk(s) from the list and click to enter the following interface: Figure 6. 6 Check Status of Disk Three types of check status shown: checking, unsubmitted and waiting.
  • Page 27 Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Steps: Select the disk(s) from the list to be checked. Click to enter the disk check interface: Figure 6. 8 Set Disk Check Select the Check style to Quick Check or Full Check.
  • Page 28: Array Management

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System 6.3 Array Management 6.3.1 Creating an Array Steps: Click Storage > Array to enter the array management interface. Figure 6. 10 Array Management Interface Click the button to enter the create array interface: Figure 6.
  • Page 29 Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System business data is required, choose the larger block size; when the small volume of input/output business data is required, choose the smaller block size. The default size is 64KB and it is the most balanced option at present.
  • Page 30: Rebuilding An Array

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System 6.3.2 Rebuilding an Array The array rebuilding function is used for rescuing the data from the unstable or failure physical disk existed in the array, aiming to protect data and recover the completeness of the array.
  • Page 31 Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Figure 6. 15 Pop-up Dialog Box 5. Click OK to finish the adding of hot spare disk. You can view the information of the successfully added hot spare on the Hot Spare interface: Figure 6.
  • Page 32 Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System (2) Select the Group to Local. (3) Select the array to which the hot spare is added. (4) Select the available disk to be used as hot spare disk. (5) Click OK to finish the adding of hot spare disk.
  • Page 33 Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System If the array is Degraded, click Maintain on the array information list to enter the array maintenance interface. Figure 6. 22 Array Maintenance Interface Click the Rebuild button. Select the available disk and click the OK button to start the array rebuilding.
  • Page 34: Verifying Array

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System the system reminding you to replace this non-rebuilt disk after the array rebuilding is complete so as to avoid data loss and enhance the data security. 6.3.3 Verifying Array The array inspection is used to prevent the data error and file loss in the process of data storage, aiming to maintain the effectiveness and completeness of the data.
  • Page 35: Repairing Array

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Steps: When the array status is Normal, click Maintenance>Common to enter the maintenance interface. Click to enter the following interface: Figure 6. 25 Add Strategy Select the type to RAID verification from the drop-down list and the verify mode to Check.
  • Page 36 Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Figure 6. 27 Repair Array Click the Repair button to start repairing the selected array. When the array is repairing, you can view the status information in the array information list, including the repairing speed and remaining time.
  • Page 37: Virtual Storage Pool Management

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Figure 6. 29 Add Strategy Select the type to RAID verification from the drop-down list and the verify mode to Repair. Select the array to repair. Edit the name of the strategy, set the cycle time and the start time/end time.
  • Page 38 Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Figure 6. 31 Storage Pool Management Click the button to enter the following interface: Figure 6. 32 Add Storage Pool Select the array to be added with virtual storage pool by checking the checkbox.
  • Page 39 Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Now, the physical volume of array r5 is available in the system. You can partition the volume space and create some LUNs to be assigned to NAS, iSCSI, CVR and other storage service. The...
  • Page 40: Chapter 7 Bad Disk Management

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Chapter 7 Bad Disk Management Purpose: The possibility for hard disk failure increases with its working time. That is the significant reason why we set the working mode of HDD as RAID. Although the storage system will still keep running in case of a single hard disk failure in RAID 5 working mode, it has been in an unstable status.
  • Page 41: Replacing The Bad Disks

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System 7.2 Replacing the Bad Disks Steps: Before replacing the bad disk(s), you need to check the new disks. If you want to check all the disks, click on the navigation bar to list all the disks.
  • Page 42: Chapter 8 Configuring Iscsi Settings

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Chapter 8 Configuring iSCSI Settings Purpose: The iSCSI connection of IP SAN/NAS system is capable of mapping the storage space to the local client server so as to achieve local management and operation.
  • Page 43: Enabling Iscsi Service

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Figure 8. 2 Create a LUN 8.2 Enabling iSCSI Service Steps: Enter the iSCSI Management interface. SAN>iSCSI Figure 8. 3 iSCSI Management Interface Click to enable the iSCSI service. Enter the Client IP and iSCSI ID; select the Chap authentication and Access mode;...
  • Page 44: Creating Iscsi Connection In Windows 2008

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Figure 8. 4 Enable iSCSI Click to confirm enabling the iSCSI service. 8.3 Creating iSCSI Connection in Windows 2008 Use the iSCSI Initiator software in Windows 2008 to configure and establish the iSCSI connection to the storage system.
  • Page 45 Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Figure 8. 6 Initiator Software Interface 2. Click tab and click . The Add Target Portal dialog box will pop up. Figure 8. 7 iSCSI Initiator Properties...
  • Page 46 Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Figure 8. 8 Add Target Portal 3. Enter the IP address and port of the storage system, and click to confirm the settings. Click tab to enter the following interface. Note: Inactive indicates that the storage target is discovered but not connected. You can connect multiple storage targets.
  • Page 47 Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Figure 8. 10 Log On to Target 5. After connecting the storage system successfully, the status of the storage target will change to Connected. Figure 8. 11 iSCSI Connected Task 2: Disconnecting iSCSI Service Steps: 1.
  • Page 48: Mapping To Local Disk & Formatting Iscsi Disk

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Figure 8. 12 Disconnect Storage Target 8.4 Mapping to Local Disk & Formatting iSCSI Disk After iSCSI connection, the storage system can be considered as a local disk. Steps: Enter the Start menu, and select Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Storage >...
  • Page 49: Creating Iscsi Connection In Redhat5

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Figure 8. 14 Disk Management You can map the storage system to a basic disk or a dynamic disk. The basic disk is accessible when the device is started, and the dynamic disk processes more features than the basic disk, e.g., extended dynamic volume and multiple disk volumes.
  • Page 50 Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System # fdisk -l Figure 8. 15 Disk Information Use the fdisk command for disk partitioning. fdisk [-l] [-b SSZ] [-u] device -l: View the status of partition table of the device. -b SSZ: Display the partition size on the standard output.
  • Page 51: Creating Iscsi Connection In Suse 10

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System number, first cylinder and partition size. Enter w to write the disk information. Figure 8. 17 Partition Disk Format the partition. # mkfs.ext3 -b 4096 /dev/sdb1 Set the mount point. # mkdir /mnt/scsi01...
  • Page 52 Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Figure 8. 18 Disk Information Use the fdisk command for disk partitioning, and then format the disk. # fdisk /dev/sdb # mkfs.ext3 -b 4096 /dev/sdb1 Set the mount point. # mkdir /mnt/scsi01...
  • Page 53: Chapter 9 Configuring Nas Settings

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Chapter 9 Configuring NAS Settings The NAS space can be used as the network shared disk within the office network to realize the share of data, software tools and other materials. 9.1 Creating NAS Net Disk Before you start: Please create the virtual storage pool before configuring the following settings.
  • Page 54: Setting Nas Configuration

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Figure 9. 2 NAS Disk Management Interface Click and select the available LUN in the LUN name dropdown list. Click to creating the NAS volume. Figure 9. 3 Create NAS Volume 9.1.2 Setting NAS Configuration Steps: Enter the NAS Configuration interface.
  • Page 55: Adding Nas User

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Share: It allows any user to log in the system without need of user name authentication. ADS: This mode is based on the domain, and all users adopt the Active Directory for authentication.
  • Page 56: Creating Nas Disk

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System user. Figure 9. 6 Add a NAS User Click to create a new user. 9.1.4 Creating NAS Disk Steps: Enter the NAS Disk Management interface. NAS>NAS Disk Figure 9. 7 NAS Disk Management...
  • Page 57 Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Figure 9. 8 Add a NAS Disk Select the protocol and configure the corresponding settings. Set the read/write access for the user that adopts the protocol. Note: If the user authentication mode (Chapter 8.1.2) is set as Share and the protocol is selected as Windows (CIFS), it only needs to select the access mode to read-write or read-only.
  • Page 58: Creating Nas Disk Connection

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System 9.2 Creating NAS Disk Connection Steps: Right-click Computer or Network on the desktop of your PC and select Map Network Drive. The guide for Map Network Drive will pop up. Note: If you want to disconnect the shared space, you can select Disconnect Network Drive.
  • Page 59: Cautions For Proper Use Of Nas Disk

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Figure 9. 12 Map Network Drive Enter the username and password of the NAS user in the pop-up dialog box, and click to connect to the NAS disk. Figure 9. 13 Enter Username & Password After connecting successfully, the NAS disk will be listed in Computer.
  • Page 60 Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Table 9. 1 Relation between Client and User Client User Support Single Single Single Multiple Multiple Single Multiple Multiple One client can connect multiple NAS disks and storage servers. As the cache mechanism of the Windows OS, after disconnecting the NAS disk you need to wait...
  • Page 61: Chapter 10 Cvr System

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Chapter 10 CVR System 10.1 Application Environment 10.1.1 Introduction to CVR (Center Video Record) System The CVR technique adopts the application oriented OSD intelligent storage design and optimizes the storage performance for video stream, which can read and save the large scale stream media data with high performance.
  • Page 62: Platform Access Mode

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System 10.1.3 Platform Access Mode CVR system provides the interface for being connected to the monitor management platform. According to the different functions that the CVR system can provide, three access modes are available.
  • Page 63: Creating Lun

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System of the private volumes needs to be set as 30GB, and so on. 10.2 Creating LUN Before you start: Please create virtual storage pool properly. For detailed information, please refer to Chapter 6.4.
  • Page 64: Record Settings

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Figure 10. 2 Create a LUN 10.3 Record Settings 10.3.1 Configuring Private Volume Note: Two LUNs will be automatically set as the spare volumes of the two private volumes. You can check checkbox to enable using the spare volume in case of failure of the private volume.
  • Page 65: Configuring Record Volume

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Select two free LUNs to set as private volume 1 and private volume 2 separately by clicking . Check checkbox to start CVR service and click to finishing setting the private volumes.
  • Page 66: Logging In The Cvr System

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System 10.3.3 Logging in the CVR System Steps: Open the web browser. In the browser address field, input the address of the storage system. The address is formatted as: https://IP address of the storage server:2004 Example: If the IP address of the storage server is 192.0.0.64, then the address you should...
  • Page 67 Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Figure 10. 6 Encoding Device Management Click to add an encoding device. Configure the corresponding settings for the device.  Name: Edit the name for the device.  Type: The model of the device.
  • Page 68: Editing The Simple Record Schedule

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Figure 10. 7 Add Encoding Device Click to finish adding the encoding device. You can go to the Information interface (Information>Information) to view the state of the added devices. The state is Ready when the device is connected properly.
  • Page 69: Live View And Playback

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Figure 10. 9 Schedule Settings Click to configure the record schedule. Select the decoding device(s) for editing schedule. Select the day(s) of the week to and set full-day or customized time periods schedule for the day(s).
  • Page 70 Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Trusted sites and click to add the IP address of the CVR system to the list of trusted sites. On the IE browser menu bar, navigate to Tools > Internet Options > Security > Custom level to enable the all the ActiveX and plug-ins.
  • Page 71: Searching & Playing Back Record Files

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Figure 10. 13 Encoding Device List Select an encoding device by checking checkbox in the Select item. Click view the live video of the encoding device. Note: You need to install the plug-in before viewing the live video.
  • Page 72 Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Figure 10. 15 Search Record Files Select the record file(s) by checking checkbox in the Choose item and click to play back the record file(s). Figure 10. 16 Search Result...
  • Page 73: Chapter 11 Appendix

    Quick Operation Guide of 81 Series Storage System Chapter 11 Appendix  IE6, IE7, IE8 and IE9 browsers are supported by the storage system.  The default IP address of Data NIC is 192.168.0.100, and the default working mode is Active-backup.

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