Before You Install - Cisco Surveillance Media Server Installing And Upgrading

Before You Install

Before You Install
Preparing Video Repositories
Repository Greater than 2 TiB
Note
Step 1
Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS)
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Before you install VSMS, you must configure the video repositories and install
all software pre-requisites.
Video that is recorded by VSMS is stored in repositories on storage volumes that
are dedicated for recording video by VSMS. The repositories must be separate
partitions from the operating system partitions. Network attached storage, such as
NFS or CIFS volumes are not supported.
To create a repository, partition and format a storage volume, then configure the
operating system to access the partition.
Each repository has a mount point to specify the path through which the files are
accessed. The common convention for naming repositories is "/media#," with
/media0 used for a repository on the operating system volume, and /media1 -
/mediaN used for additional storage volumes.
To create partitions greater than 2 TiB, the volume must use a GPT partition table
and must be a different storage volume from the operating system volume. The
GPT partition table does not work on the boot volume.
The following steps erase the partition table on the specified volume, which
deletes all data on the volume.
Procedure
Login to the VSMS server and follow these steps to create a partition GPT table
on the volume:
linux:~ # parted -- /dev/<device> mklabel gpt
Replace <device> with the volume device name, such as /dev/sdb.V