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VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION
VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION
VS-6048D Video Storage
Configuration
Model: VS-6048D/VS-2024S
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  • Page 1 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION VS-6048D Video Storage Configuration Model: VS-6048D/VS-2024S www.fs.com...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Contents VS-2024S Video Storage Deployment Instructions ........................ 1 1 Overview of Deployment Procedures...........................2 2 Typical Application Configuration ............................3 3 Precautions for Disk Deployment ............................3 4 Hardware Installation ................................3 5 Network Environment Configuration ........................... 7 6 Hardware Environment Inspection ............................8 7 Power-up and Startup ................................
  • Page 3 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION 11.2 Configuring SNMP TRAP ..............................35 12 Configuring Basic Storage Service ............................ 36 12.1 Configuring RAID Group ..............................36 12.1.1 GUI Login Interface ............................... 36 12.1.2 Disk Scan ..................................37 12.1.3 Creating a RAID Group ..............................37 12.2 Creating a RAID LUN ................................

  • Page 4: Vs-2024S Video Storage Deployment Instructions

    Video Storage Deployment Instructions Key words: Video Storage Abstract: This document describes how to configure the Video Storage products. It is applicable to FS employees, system administrators, maintenance personnel, and other relevant personnel. Readers are expected to acquaint themselves with the Video Storage...

  • Page 5: Overview Of Deployment Procedures

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Overview of Deployment Procedures For deployment procedures, refer to Figure 1-1, where green indicates hardware configuration operations, orange indicates inspection operations and red indicates software configuration operations. The following sections will describe the sequential deployment procedures according to the flowchart.

  • Page 6: Typical Application Configuration

    Typical Application Configuration Video Storage supports 1 SCU with up to 4 cascaded DEUs, all of which can be configured with up to 24 disks (for VS-6048D 48 disks). It is recommended to create RAID LUN with 11+1 and 12 disks in each chassis, wherein 11 or 12 disks are used as data disks, with the rest of one automatically being the hot spare disk, or you may add an exclusive hot spare disk.
  • Page 7 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION (1) Lock spring leaf (2) Ring-shaped handle Figure 4-1 Integrated battery pack The steps to install the battery pack are as follows: (1) Take a new battery module out of its packaging case, and then determine the installation direction of the battery case by putting the lock spring piece on the left and putting the silkscreen of the battery module panel upright.
  • Page 8 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Installing a disk CAUTIONS Before installation, check if the panel is attached onto the front of the equipment; if yes, remove the panel.  Check that the handles on the two sides of the disk module are fastened with screws (three screws on each side of the disk ...
  • Page 9 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Figure 4-3 Disk appearance The steps to install a disk are as follows: (1) When the disk is initially inserted, hold the middle of its two sides, align with the disk slot in the chassis, and push the disk into the slot.

  • Page 10: Network Environment Configuration

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Figure 4-5 Disk correctly inserted (3) Repeat the steps above to install the rest of disks. As shown in Figure 4-6. Figure 4-6 Full configured disks Network Environment Configuration A gigabit NIC (network interface card) should always be used for Video storage unit. Be careful not to use a 100 MBit/s switch to prevent the transmission rate from being negotiated to100 MBbit/s which significantly degrades its performance.

  • Page 11: Hardware Environment Inspection

    Please always check the appropriateness of the hardware environment before upgrading or configuring the product. If there are  any disagreements between the hardware configuration and the instructions, please contact the FS Supply Chain for replacement in time. Please carry out each check in sequence as described in Table 9–1.

  • Page 12: Check Interface/Led Status

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Check interface/LED status 8.2.1 Description of SCU/DEU LED Each disk on the front panel of SCU has a yellow & green LED to indicate the status of the disk, while on the rear panel of SCU there are the power LED, locating LED, alarm LED and SAS port LED.
  • Page 13 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Off: indicates that the disk is powered off. Green steady on: indicates that the disk is normal. Green quickly blinking: indicates that the system is reading or writing the disk. Yellow steady on: indicates that disk alarms exist.
  • Page 14 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION F flashes (F0/0F/FF) Indicates that a fan module is faulty. For example: If F is blinking on the left, the left fan module is faulty. If F is blinking on the right, the right fan module is faulty. 0 indicates the normal module.
  • Page 15 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Table 9–3 Description of DEU LED status Indicator Silk screen Colour Description Off: indicates that the device is not started. Blinking at the frequency of 1 Hz: indicates that the device is running. System status LED...

  • Page 16: Checking Software Version

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Indicator Silk screen Colour Description will flash 3 times before switching to the next alarm. The system has a temperature warning and the two digits indicate Two digits flashing the current temperature (in Celsius) of the motherboard F flashes (F0/0F/FF) Indicates that a fan module is faulty.
  • Page 17 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Get the software and hardware of DEU. Log in to the GUI console. From the [Device] tab, expand the path [Storage Controller > hostname > Physical Resources > DEUs]. Right click the DEU which you will check software verison and hardware verison, and then select [Properities].

  • Page 18: Initializing Configuration

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Initializing Configuration GUI Console Configuration 9.1.1 GUI Console Environment A GUI console configures and manages a storage controller. You can directly download it to the management workstation and run it. You can use one GUI console to centrally manage a maximum of 32 storage controllers under the condition that the version of the GUI console matches the version of the storage controllers.

  • Page 19: Logging In To The Gui Console

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Microsoft Internet Explorer  Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later can be used and the pop-up window blocking function need to be disabled. Notes: The software version is R1127 or higher than R1127, Java Runtime Environment needs JRE8.0 or above version.
  • Page 20 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION (4) Click the light yellow prompt bar This site... and select Install ActiveX control. (5) Click Install. (6) Select Typical Installation, and click Accept. The system starts to install JRE6.0. (7) Deselect Start Internet Explorer and click Finish to complete JRE6.0 installation.

  • Page 21: Change The Password

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION (9) Open Internet Explorer, and input URL as ‘http:// ip address’ to download GUI console Change the password Log in to the GUI console by the management network port using the default IP address 192.168.0.1 as shown in Figure 10-1. After successfully log in to the GUI console as an admin or general administrator, if an admin’...

  • Page 22: Setting The Network Port Ip Address And Mtu

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Figure 10-2 Changing the default password Notes: When you log in to the GUI console, changing the admin’ s or general administrator’s password will automatically change the root  password to a dynamic password.A dynamic password can be obtained by providing SN (Serial Number) for the After-sales...
  • Page 23 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION (2) Select [Server Maintenance > Network Configuration], select the port and click the [Configure] button, as shown in the Figure 10-4: Figure 10-4 Selecting the port (3) On the pop-up dialogue box, input the correct IP address and mask of the port, then click the [OK] button, as shown in the Figure 10-5: (4) Repeat steps (2)~(3) to set the IP addresses for all the ports and then review them from [Server Maintenance >...

  • Page 24: Setting Controller Name

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Figure 10-5 Setting the IP address and mask Setting Controller Name The steps are as follows: (1) Right click the hostname node of the storage controller, select the [Server Maintenance > Rename Controller] menu, and input the new name of controller into the popup dialogue box, as shown in the Figure10-6;...

  • Page 25: Setting System Time

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Setting System Time If the system time is different from the actual time, you can change the system time. Open the storage console and double click the time area in the lower right corner of the window to display the “System time” setting...
  • Page 26 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Figure 10-8 change system date and time Setting the time as DST mode as shown in Figure 10-9 If the local area clock is setting as ‘Daylight Savings Time’, you can change the storage as DST mode Open the storage console and double click the time area in the lower right corner of the window to display the “System time”...

  • Page 27: Configuring Service Port Bonding (Optional)

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Configuring Service Port Bonding (optional) 9.6.1 Network Port Bonding Notes: Before configure network port bonding, please log in to GUI by management network port.  If storage controller has configure network port bonding,the switch is also configure bonding accordingly. Static bonding is used ...
  • Page 28 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION the name of the network port to be bonded. Then, click [OK] button, as shown in the Figure 10-10: Description: During bonding, there are no special limits on the settings of the bonded IP.  Modifying the bonding mode will affect services. The default Balance-XOR(layer2) bonding mode is recommended.
  • Page 29 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Figure 10-12 Selecting a network port for bonding 3 (5) Selecting the [System Maintenance > Network Configuration] menu item will show bonding information, as shown in Figure 10-12, or you can select the [System Maintenance > Network Bonding] menu item to check bonding information, as shown in Figure 10-13:...
  • Page 30 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Figure 10-13 Checking bonding information 1 Figure 10-14 Checking bonding information 2 (6) To change the bonding IP, select the [Server Maintenance > Network Configuration] menu item, select the bond port name to be changed, click the [Configure] option and input a new bonding IP, as shown in the Figure10-14:...
  • Page 31 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Figure 10-15 Changing the bonding IP (7) To debond, select the [Server Maintenance > Bond Interface] menu item to select the bond to be debonded, and click the [Debond] option, as shown in the Figure10-15: www.fs.com...

  • Page 32: Setting The Network Route

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Figure 10-16 Debonding 9.6.2 Setting the Network Route To communicate with the storage controller in a non-local network, the network route for the storage controller must be set in addition to providing route devices. (1) Right click the controller name to be set, select [Server Maintenance > Configure Network] and click the [Advanced] option on the popup dialogue box, as shown in the following Figure 10-16: (2) From the “Advanced Network Configuration”...

  • Page 33: Configure Failover

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Figure 10-17 Setting network routes Configure Failover Dual-controller Video Storage needs configure failover to achieve fault protection.If the controller do not configure failover, they are running independently; When the controllers have configured failover,one controller logs in to the GUI,the other controller also attempts to connect the GUI automatically.
  • Page 34 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION (2) Right click “hostname” node, and choose [Failover Settings > Configure Failover] Figure 11-1 Setting Failover (3) In the Configure Failover dialog box, each Eth port (or bond port) corresponds to an actual network port, which has been set by default.

  • Page 35: Suspend Failover

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Figure 11-2 Selecting network port for protect and groups for net ports 10.2 Suspend Failover After suspend faileover, one controller is poweroff, and then the other controller will not take over the service of the poweroff controller.

  • Page 36: Remove Failover

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION 10.3 Remove Failover If failover is not required, you can remove related configuration and cancel protection. Perform the following steps to delete failover configuration: (1) On the Device tab, expand Storage Controller > hostname . (2) Right-click the hostname node and choose Failover Settings > Remove Failover.
  • Page 37 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Figure 11-1 Setting Email Notification (2) After configuration, click [Test] to test the function; if successful, a prompt dialogue box is displayed indicating successful Email test. Table 11-1 General email property settings Option Description SMTP server The IP address of the SMTP server.

  • Page 38: Configuring Snmp Trap

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION 11.2 Configuring SNMP TRAP Video Storage supports the SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) feature. SNMP Trap allows fault or event notifications from the storage device being sent to SNMP network management center in time. The trigger conditions are shown below:...

  • Page 39: Configuring Basic Storage Service

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Figure 11-4 Adding a Trap receiver server Configuring Basic Storage Service 12.1 Configuring RAID Group 12.1.1 GUI Login Interface You can enter the GUI management interface by following these steps: From the "Device" tab of the console, right click "Storage Controller" to select the [Add Controller] menu item. The system will show an "Add Controller"...

  • Page 40: Disk Scan

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION RAID group management features are available for use after a successful login. 12.1.2 Disk Scan Description: If a disk cannot be viewed on the interface, please check if the disk LED in the slot is green; if not, the disk may not be properly ...
  • Page 41 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Description: Initialize the disks before creating a RAID group. Right click the deu list under the DEU node, selecting [Initialize Disk(s)]. A vacant  disk requires no initialization. When creating a RAID group, you can use disks of different DEUs, but they should be always either SAS or SATA disks. It is ...

  • Page 42: Creating A Raid Lun

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION 12.2 Creating a RAID LUN Please use the default RAID LUN chunk size of 64k. Create a RAID LUN on top of a RAID group, and use the attributed RAID group level after creation. Do not create a RAID LUN that spans RAID groups.

  • Page 43: Creating San Resource

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Option Description RAID LUN chunk size Set the RAID LUN chunk size. It is "64KB" by default RAID LUN read/write cache You can select "Enable" or "Disable". It is set to "Enable" by default. RAID LUN rebuilding You can select "High", "Medium"...

  • Page 44: Creating Target

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION 12.4 Creating Target 12.4.1 Creating Target (1) From the "Device" tab, expand the path [Storage Controller > hostname > Target Manager > ISCSI Target] (2) Right click the [ISCSI Target] and select [Create], and on the popup dialogue box, set the Target name and IP address, as shown in...

  • Page 45: Changing Target Properties

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Figure 13-6 Setting an initiator (4) After assigning initiators, click the [Finish] button. Description: To ensure the resources are normal, the initiator and target should be correctly configured.  Microsoft iSCSI Initiator 2.06 or a higher version is recommended.
  • Page 46 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION (2) Select the [Change Access Right] option, and change the access right for the resources from the dropdown list. Three access rights are available for selection. Select [OK] button after changed. Figure 13-8 Changing initiator access right (3) Select the [CHAP Authentication >...

  • Page 47: Assigning Resources

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Figure 13-10 Add CHAP authentication (4) To cancel CHAP authentication, select [CHAP Authentication > Delete]. 12.4.3 Assigning Resources Description: Up to 255 SAN resources can be assigned to each target.  Steps: (1) Expand the target name node to assign resources and right click "SAN Resources" to select [Assign]: Figure 13-11 Assigning SAN resources (2) The popup dialogue box will list all the SAN resources.

  • Page 48: Windows Client Configuration

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Figure 13-12 Selecting the resources to assign (3) These assigned resources show in the corresponding target node. 12.5 Windows Client Configuration 12.5.1 Configuring initiatorname Double-click iscsicpl.exe, and choose [General > Change…] as shown in below figure, and then input the storage initiator name which needs connection.

  • Page 49: Configuring Connection

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION 12.5.2 Configuring connection (1) Add the IP address of the target to be discovered Choose [Discovery > Add]. Input the IP address of the storage target in the target and click [Log on…]. www.fs.com...
  • Page 50 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION (2) Check the connection status of the iscsi device www.fs.com...
  • Page 51 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION (3) Scan the SAN resource www.fs.com...
  • Page 52 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION (4) Initialize the disk (MBR partition by default). When the disk capacity is more than 2TB, you must select GPT partition to initialize the disk. When the disk capacity is less than 2TB, you can select GTP or MBR partition to initialize. If the disk partition whose capacity is more than 2TB has been MBR patition, you must right click the disk and select ‘Convert to GPT disk’...
  • Page 53 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION (5) Format the file system. A raw disk should be formatted for the streaming media writing mode www.fs.com...

  • Page 54: Linux Client Configuration

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION 12.6 Linux Client Configuration 12.6.1 Configuring the initiatorname.iscsi file Modify the name of the iscsi Initiator in the /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi file with the same storage initiator name, for example: InitiatorName= iqn.2012-05.com.microsoft:fs Description: Generally, InitatorName has already been configured for the operating system, and requires modification in the field ...
  • Page 55 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION # iscsiadm -m discovery -t st -p 191.168.16.15:3260 Starting iscsid: [ OK ] 191.168.16.15:3260,1 iqn.com:storage.bff80f.target2 You can repeatedly execute this command to add multiple IP addresses of the target nodes. (2) Log in to all discovered target nodes # iscsiadm -m node -L all Logging in to [iface: default, target: iqn.com:storage.bff80f.target2, portal: 191.168.16.15,3260] (multiple)
  • Page 56 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table (5) Format the file system for the SAN resource When formatting, specify the type of file system needed, as shown in red.
  • Page 57 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION # mkdir /123 # mount /dev/sdb /123 # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 339G 9.5G 312G 3% / tmpfs 1.9G 4.0K 1.9G 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 194M 45M 140M 25% /boot /dev/sda2...

  • Page 58: Imformation Collection

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Imformation Collection 13.1 Save the System Configuration Notes: Always keep the saved configuration files.  After the completion of system installation and debugging, we shall be sure to save the system configuration for ease of future maintenance and upgrade.

  • Page 59: Collecting Event Logs

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Figure 14-2 Saving configuration 2 13.2 Collecting Event Logs (1) Right click the storage controller node in the catalogue tree and select [Event Log]; (2) From the popup dialogue box, you can review and export event logs, as shown in the Figure 14-4:...

  • Page 60: Collecting Diagnosis Logs

    VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Figure 14-3 Selecting event logs Figure 14-4 Reviewing system logs 13.3 Collecting Diagnosis Logs (1) Right click a controller name and then select the [Diagnosis] option. Description:  Unless otherwise specified, always collect diagnosis logs. www.fs.com...
  • Page 61 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Figure 14-5 Selecting diagnosis options (2) From the popup diagnosis box, select the start and end dates for the data to be exported, and then click [OK] button, as shown in the Figure 14-6: (3) After clicking [OK] button, set the save path on the new dialogue box and click [Save], as shown in the Figure 14-7.
  • Page 62 VS-6048D VIDEO STORAGE CONFIGURATION Figure 14-7 Saving Diagnosis www.fs.com...

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