Cisco Systems Surveillance Media Server manual Before You Install, Preparing Video Repositories

Before You Install

Before You Install

Before you install VSMS, you must configure the video repositories and install all software pre-requisites.

Preparing Video Repositories

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.

Repository Greater than 2 TiB

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.

Note The following steps erase the partition table on the specified volume, which deletes all data on the volume.

Procedure

Step 1 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

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